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Sergio Andò is affiliated with the University of Milano-Bicocca in Italy and has contributed extensively to the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on Geophysics, Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Artificial Intelligence, and Geology. Their research portfolio includes 82 publications centered around these disciplines.

The scientist's research topics cover a broad spectrum including:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis

Andò's frequently published papers demonstrate a mix of environmental, geological, and geochemical themes. Selected recent publications include:

  • "Airborne and marine microplastics from an oceanographic survey at the Baltic Sea: An emerging role of air-sea interaction?", 2022, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Gravimetric Separation of Heavy Minerals in Sediments and Rocks", 2020, Minerals
  • "Provenance of Thal Desert sand: Focused erosion in the western Himalayan syntaxis and foreland-basin deposition driven by latest Quaternary climate change", 2020, Earth-Science Reviews
  • "Comparability of heavy mineral data - The first interlaboratory round robin test", 2020, Earth-Science Reviews
  • "Zircon as a provenance tracer: Coupling Raman spectroscopy and U Pb geochronology in source-to-sink studies", 2020, Chemical Geology

The scholar has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, notably:

  • Eduardo Garzanti (18 publications)
  • Marta Barbarano (12 publications)
  • Giovanni Vezzoli (9 publications)
  • Danilo Bersani (6 publications)
  • Francesco Saliu (5 publications)

Andò's work has appeared regularly in several publication venues, with notable frequency in:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) - 5 publications
  • Minerals - 4 publications
  • Earth-Science Reviews - 4 publications
  • Chemical Geology - 4 publications
  • The Science of The Total Environment - 2 publications

Best Publications

  • Loess Plateau storage of Northeastern Tibetan Plateau-derived Yellow River sediment.

    Junsheng Nie;Thomas Stevens;Martin Rittner;Daniel Stockli

  • Mineralogical and chemical variability of fluvial sediments 2. Suspended-load silt (Ganga–Brahmaputra, Bangladesh)

    Eduardo Garzanti;Sergio Andó;Christian France-Lanord;Paolo Censi

  • Grain-size dependence of sediment composition and environmental bias in provenance studies

    Eduardo Garzanti;Sergio Andò;Giovanni Vezzoli

  • Chapter 20 Heavy Mineral Concentration in Modern Sands: Implications for Provenance Interpretation

    Eduardo Garzanti;Sergio Andò

  • Mineralogical and chemical variability of fluvial sediments 1. Bedload sand (Ganga–Brahmaputra, Bangladesh)

    Eduardo Garzanti;Sergio Andò;Christian France-Lanord;Giovanni Vezzoli

  • Settling equivalence of detrital minerals and grain-size dependence of sediment composition

    Eduardo Garzanti;Sergio Andò;Giovanni Vezzoli

  • Genetic linkage between the Yellow River, the Mu Us desert and the Chinese Loess Plateau

    T. Stevens;T. Stevens;A. Carter;T.P. Watson;P. Vermeesch

  • Orogenic belts and orogenic sediment provenance

    Eduardo Garzanti;Carlo Doglioni;Giovanni Vezzoli;Sergio Andò

  • Corrosion of heavy minerals during weathering and diagenesis: A catalog for optical analysis

    Sergio Andò;Eduardo Garzanti;Marta Padoan;Mara Limonta

  • Weathering and Relative Durability of Detrital Minerals in Equatorial Climate: Sand Petrology and Geochemistry in the East African Rift

    Eduardo Garzanti;Marta Padoan;Sergio Andò;Alberto Resentini

  • Petrology of Nile River sands (Ethiopia and Sudan): Sediment budgets and erosion patterns

    Eduardo Garzanti;Sergio Andò;Giovanni Vezzoli;Ada Ali Abdel Megid

  • Physical controls on sand composition and relative durability of detrital minerals during ultra-long distance littoral and aeolian transport (Namibia and southern Angola)

    Eduardo Garzanti;Alberto Resentini;Sergio Andò;Giovanni Vezzoli

  • The Paleogene record of Himalayan erosion: Bengal Basin, Bangladesh

    Y. Najman;M.J. Bickle;M. Boudagher-Fadel;Andrew Carter

  • Provenance and recycling of Arabian desert sand

    Eduardo Garzanti;Pieter Vermeesch;Sergio Andò;Giovanni Vezzoli

  • Petrology of Indus River sands : a key to interpret erosion history of the Western Himalayan Syntaxis

    Eduardo Garzanti;Giovanni Vezzoli;Sergio Andò;Paolo Paparella

  • Heavy Minerals for Junior Woodchucks

    Eduardo Garzanti;Sergio Andò

  • The provenance of Taklamakan desert sand

    Martin Rittner;Pieter Vermeesch;Andrew Carter;Andrew Carter;Anna Bird

  • Sand petrology and focused erosion in collision orogens: the Brahmaputra case

    Eduardo Garzanti;Giovanni Vezzoli;Sergio Andò;Christian France-Lanord

  • Petrology of the Namib Sand Sea: Long-distance transport and compositional variability in the wind-displaced Orange Delta

    Eduardo Garzanti;Sergio Andò;Giovanni Vezzoli;Michele Lustrino

  • The modern Nile sediment system: Processes and products

    Eduardo Garzanti;Sergio Andò;Marta Padoan;Giovanni Vezzoli

  • Quantifying sand provenance and erosion (Marsyandi River, Nepal Himalaya)

    Eduardo Garzanti;Giovanni Vezzoli;Sergio Andò;Jérôme Lavé

Frequent Co-Authors

Eduardo Garzanti
Eduardo Garzanti University of Milano-Bicocca
Giovanni Vezzoli
Giovanni Vezzoli University of Milano-Bicocca
Pieter Vermeesch
Pieter Vermeesch University College London
Andrew Carter
Andrew Carter Birkbeck, University of London
Yani Najman
Yani Najman Lancaster University
Thomas Stevens
Thomas Stevens Uppsala University
Huayu Lu
Huayu Lu Nanjing University
Marco G. Malusà
Marco G. Malusà University of Milano-Bicocca
Peter D. Clift
Peter D. Clift University College London
Matthias Zabel
Matthias Zabel University of Bremen

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