32nd International Geological Congress, Firenze 2004 Cancellati 80 field trip su 105 - Quali le ragioni?

B 01 GEOLOGY AND ARCHEOLOGY OF CYRENAICA, NORTHERN EASTERN LIBYA (Cancelled)
   
B 02 THE SUBDUCTED TETHYS IN THE AOSTA VALLEY (ITALIAN WESTERN ALPS) - Visit the Web
   
B 03 SINKHOLE’S PHENOMENA IN THE LAZIO REGION (CENTRAL ITALY): A LIVE POINT OF VIEW OVER CASE STUDIES (Cancelled)
   
B 04 Cr-PGE MINERALISATION, PETROLOGY AND TECTONICS OF THE ALLOCHTHONOUS COMPLEXES OF NW SPAIN AND PORTUGAL - (Cancelled)
   
B 05 THE PALEOZOIC BASEMENT THROUGH THE 500 MA HISTORY OF THE NORTHERN APENNINES (ITALY) (Cancelled)
   
B 06 GEO-DIVERSITY IN THE LANDSCAPE OF EMILIA ROMAGNA (NORTHERN ITALY): GEOSITES IN THE APENNINES BETWEEN MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA
   
B 07 QUATERNARY EUSTATIC FLUCTUATIONS AND BIOCHRONOLOGY OF VERTEBRATE-BEARING DEPOSITS CORRELATED WITH MARINE TERRACES IN SICILY (SOUTHERN ITALY)
   
B 08 LARGE SCALE GRAVITATIONAL PHENOMENA IN SOUTHERN-CENTRAL ITALY: GEOMORPHOLOGIC FRAMEWORK, TRIGGERING FACTORS, TEMPORAL EVOLUTION AND IMPACT ON URBAN SETTLEMENTS (Cancelled)
   
B 09 DEEP-WATER SEDIMENTATION AND TECTONICS IN THE GRÈS D’ANNOT FORELAND BASIN,SOUTH EASTERN FRANCE (Cancelled)
   
B 10 ACTIVE TECTONICS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SECTOR OF THE IBERIAN PENINSULA (EASTERN SPAIN) (Cancelled)
   
B 11 NEOGENE FORELAND BASIN SYSTEMS IN THE CENTRAL APENNINES (Cancelled)
   
B 12 GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE OF THE ROMANIAN CARPATHIANS (Joined with P 43) (Cancelled)
   
B 13 THE ROLE OF OLISTOSTROMES AND ARGILLE SCAGLIOSE IN THE STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION OF THE NORTHERN APENNINES
   
B 14 ALPINE THERMAL GEOLOGY: THERMAL WATER UTILIZATION IN SOUTHERN CARINTHIA (AUSTRIAN - ITALIAN BORDER)
   
B 15 A GEOLOGICAL CIRCUIT ACROSS FOUR STRUCTURAL DOMAINS IN MOROCCO: THE RIF, THE MESETA, THE ATLASES, AND THE ANTI-ATLAS (Cancelled)
   
B 16 WESTERN PYRENEES FOLD-AND-THRUST BELT (FTB): GEODYNAMICS, SEDIMENTATION AND PLATE BOUNDARY RECONSTRUCTION FROM RIFTING TO INVERSION (Cancelled)
   
B 17 THE PERIADRIATIC INTRUSION OF VEDRETTE DI RIES (EASTERN ALPS): PETROLOGY, EMPLACEMENT MECHANISM AND CONTACT AUREOLE (Cancelled)
   
B 18 SKARN DEPOSITS IN SOUTHERN TUSCANY AND ELBA ISLAND (CENTRAL ITALY) - Visit the Web
   
B 19 THE RECORD OF MESSINIAN EVENTS IN THE NORTHERN APENNINE FOREDEEP BASINS (Cancelled)
   
B 20 GEOMORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES OF THE CARSOLI BASIN AND TURANO AND SALTO RIVER VALLEYS (CENTRAL ITALY) (Cancelled)
   
B 21 ULTRA-HIGH AND HIGH PRESSURE ROCKS OF SAXONY (GERMANY) (Cancelled)
   
B 22 PALEOZOIC OROGENIES IN THE FRENCH MASSIF CENTRAL (Cancelled)
   
B 23 MESOZOIC AND TERTIARY DEFORMATION AROUND THE AFRICAN SHIELD, SOUTH-EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN, EASTERN DESERT OF EGYPT (Cancelled)
   
B 24 LATE QUATERNARY DEPOSITIONAL EVOLUTION BETWEEN THE APENNINE PIEDMONT BELT AND THE PO DELTA: OUTCROPPING AND SUBSURFACE EVIDENCE Visit the Web (Cancelled)
   
B 25 THE DEAD SEA FAULT IN ISRAEL (Cancelled)
   
B 26 NEOTECTONIC TRANSECT MOESIA - APULIA
   
B 27 NATURAL HAZARDS GENERATED BY STRATIGRAPHIC AND TECTONICALLY INDUCED LITHOLOGICAL JUXTAPOSITIONS IN THE MOLISE REGION (SOUTHERN ITALY) (Cancelled)
   
B 28 THE NEAPOLITAN ACTIVE VOLCANOES (VESUVIO, CAMPI FLEGREI, ISCHIA): SCIENCE AND IMPACT ON HUMAN LIFE
   
B 29 B 29 - THERMOMECHANICAL EVOLUTION OF THE ALPINE BELT, FROM THE ENGADINE WINDOW TO THE MATTERHORN (Joined with P 57) (Cancelled)
   
B 30 THE NEOGENE THRUST-TOP BASINS IN CENTRAL SICILY AND THE NEOGENE VOLCANISM OF THE NORTHERN MONTI IBLEI IN SOUTH-EASTERN SICILY (Cancelled)
   
B 31 CADOMIAN OROGENIC IMPRINTS IN THE BOHEMIAN MASSIF (AUSTRIA, CZECH REPUBLIC AND GERMANY) (Cancelled)
   
B 32 THE EXHUMATION OF HIGH-PRESSURE METAMORPHIC ROCKS WITHIN AN ACTIVE CONVERGENT MARGIN, CRETE, GREECE (Cancelled)
   
B 33 INTERACTION BETWEEN THE MESOZOIC PALEOMARGIN ARCHITECTURE AND THE NEOGENE CENTRAL APENNINES THRUST SYSTEM (Cancelled)

P 01 TECTONICS AND HIGH-PRESSURE METAMORPHISM IN NORTHWEST TURKEY
   
P 02 STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY, STRATIGRAPHY AND VOLCANOLOGY ACROSS THE APENNINIC-MAGHREBIAN OROGEN IN SICILY
   
P 03 ACTIVE TECTONISM ALONG THE DEAD SEA TRANSFORM IN JORDAN (Cancelled)
   
P 04 MAGMATIC AND DEFORMATIONAL PROCESSES IN THE FORMATION OF OCEANIC CRUST: EXAMPLES FROM THE TROODOS OPHIOLITE (CYPRUS) (Cancelled)
   
P 05 ITALIAN ALPINE LANDSLIDES (Cancelled)
   
P 06 LESSONS OF THE IDRIJA MERCURY MINE (SLOVENIA) (Cancelled)
   
P 07 FLUID EXPULSION AND AUTHIGENIC CARBONATES IN MIOCENE FOREDEEP AND SATELLITE BASINS (NORTHERN APENNINES)
   
P 08 FACIES, PALEOBIOLOGY AND GEOMETRIES OF LITHOSOMES ON A PELAGIC PLATFORM AND ITS MARGINS: THE TRAPANESE DOMAIN (SICILY) (Cancelled)
   
P 09 IGNIMBRITIC DEPOSITS IN CENTRAL ITALY: PYROCLASTIC PRODUCTS OF THE QUATERNARY AGE AND ETRUSCAN FOOTPATHS
   
P 10 CONTRASTING PATTERNS OF LATE QUATERNARY TECTONIC UPLIFT AROUND THE COASTLINE OF SICILY (Cancelled)
   
P 11 THE VARISCAN BASEMENT OF NORTHERN SARDINIA AND CORSICA (Cancelled)
   
P 12 THE OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE OF THE JURASSIC LIGURIAN TETHYS: FORMATION AND SUBDUCTION (Cancelled)
   
P 13 LANDSLIDES OF THE EMILIA APENNINES (NORTHERN ITALY) (Cancelled)
   
P 14 HISTORICAL GEOLOGICAL EVENTS AND THEIR IMPACT ON MAN
   
P 15 SEDIMENTARY AND TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF SELECTED NEOGENE-QUATERNARY BASINS OF THE APENNINES (ITALY) (Cancelled)
   
P 16 CONTRASTING MAGMATISM IN COLLISIONAL BELTS: AN EXAMPLE FROM THE ALPS (Cancelled)
   
P 17 METAMORPHISM AND GRANITOID MAGMATISM IN THE HERCYNIAN CONTINENTAL CRUST EXPOSED IN CALABRIA (SOUTHERN ITALY) (Cancelled)
   
P 18 MARGIN AND SLOPES OF THE ITALIAN APULIA CARBONATE PLATFORM (LATE JURASSIC TO EOCENE): ARCHITECTURE AND PHYSICAL STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONSHIPS
   
P 19 LARGE SCALE PLIOCENE GILBERT-TYPE FAN DELTAS AROUND THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN (ITALY, FRANCE, SPAIN) THEIR RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE MESSINIAN SALINITY CRISIS (Cancelled)
   
P 20 A GEOLOGICAL TRANSECT ACROSS THE SOUTHERN APENNINES ALONG THE SEISMIC LINE CROP 04 (ITALY) (Cancelled)
   
P 21 PERMIAN AND TRIASSIC CONTINENTAL SEQUENCES OF SOUTHEASTERN FRANCE AND NORTHWESTERN SARDINIA (ITALY): STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATIONS IN A KEY WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN AREA. (Cancelled)
   
P 22 GEOMORPHOLOGY AND SLOPE INSTABILITY IN THE DOLOMITES (NORTHERN ITALY): FROM LATE GLACIAL TO RECENT GEOMORPHOLOGICAL EVIDENCE AND ENGINEERING GEOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS (Cancelled)
   
P 23 MESO-CENOZOIC FOSSIL DEPOSITS IN NORTHERN ITALY (Cancelled)
   
P 24 THE TYPE KARST (NORTHEASTERN ITALY – SOUTHWESTERN SLOVENIA): GEOMORPHOLOGY AND HYDROGEOLOGY (Cancelled)
   
P 25 TRAVERTINES OF TUSCANY AND LATIUM (CENTRAL ITALY)
   
P 26 NEOGENE BASINS, ALPINE-CARPATHIAN JUNCTIONS AND VIENNA'S WATER SUPPLY (EASTERN AUSTRIA) (Cancelled)
   
P 27 NORTHERN APENNINE AND CORSICA OPHIOLITES: THE OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE OF THE LIGURE- PIEMONTESE BASIN AND ITS TRANSITION TO THE ADRIA CONTINENTAL MARGIN (ITALY) (Cancelled)
   
P 28 FROM RIFTING TO COLLISION. A CASE HISTORY FROM THE MESOZOIC-TERTIARY OF THE EASTERN CONTINENTAL MARGIN OF ADRIA (ITALY) (Cancelled)
   
P 29 A TRANSECT FROM THE PYRENEES TO THE VALENCIA TROUGH: A TRIP THROUGH THE MAIN GEOLOGICAL EVENTS OF THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN (Cancelled)
   
P 30 METALLOGENY IN SARDINIA (ITALY): FROM THE CAMBRIAN TO THE TERTIARY (Cancelled)
   
P 31 SECTION OF THE SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPEAN ALPIDES (YUGOSLAVIA) (Cancelled)
   
P 32 VOLCANIC ACTIVITY OF MOUNT ETNA (SICILY) (Cancelled)
   
P 33 WINES OF BORDEAUX AND COGNAC: GEOLOGY OF THE VINEYARDS (FRANCE)
   
P 34 THE PALEOZOIC SUCCESSION OF THE CARNIC ALPS (ITALY). THE HERCYNIAN AND PERMIANCARBONIFEROUS SEQUENCES: STRATIGRAPHY, SEDIMENTOLOGY, PALEONTOLOGY, PALEOTECTONICS, HERCYNIAN AND ALPINE TECTONICS (Cancelled)
   
P 35 PLIO-PLEISTOCENE STRATIGRAPHIC AND TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE FORELAND-FOREDEEP- CHAIN SYSTEM IN SOUTHERN ITALY (Cancelled)
   
P 36 PALEOGENE AND RECENT VOLCANISM IN THE EASTERN RHODOPES (BULGARIA) AND MILOS ISLAND (GREECE) AND RELATED INDUSTRIAL MINERALS (Cancelled)
   
P 37 HYDROGEOLOGY OF THE ISLAND OF SARDINIA (ITALY) (Cancelled)
   
P 38 GEOLOGY OF THE ALPI APUANE METAMORPHIC COMPLEX (NORTHERN APENNINES, CENTRAL ITALY) (Cancelled)
   
P 39 THE SARDINIAN PALEOZOIC BASEMENT AND ITS MESO-CENOZOIC COVER (ITALY) (Cancelled)
   
P 40 GEOLOGY TASTING AND WINE MAPPING IN CENTRAL ITALY
   
P 41 INSTRUMENTED EXPERIMENTAL SITES FOR THE CONTROL OF LANDSLIDE HAZARDS IN MOUNTAIN AND HILL ENVIRONMENTS: THE GERMANASCA AND SUSA VALLEYS AND LANGHE HILLS (NORTHWESTERN ITALY) (Cancelled)
   
P 42 GEOLOGY AND VOLCANISM OF STROMBOLI, LIPARI AND VULCANO (AEOLIAN ISLANDS, ITALY)
   
P 43 ROMANIAN EASTERN CARPATHIANS GEOLOGICAL TRANSECT (joined with B 12) (Cancelled)
   
P 44 TRIASSIC CARBONATE PLATFORMS OF THE DOLOMITES (ITALY): CARBONATE PRODUCTION, RELATIVE SEA-LEVEL FLUCTUATIONS AND THE SHAPING OF THE DEPOSITIONAL ARCHITECTURE
   
P 45 A CRUSTAL SECTION ACROSS SICILY (ITALY) (Cancelled)
   
P 46 TERROIR - GEOLOGY AND WINE OF TUSCANY (ITALY) ) - Visit the Web (Cancelled)
   
P 47 GEOSCIENCES FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE PRESERVATION IN TUSCANY AND ITS SURROUNDINGS (CENTRAL ITALY) (Cancelled)
   
P 48 LITHOSPHERIC SETTING, DUCTILE TO BRITTLE TECTONICS AND KINEMATIC EVOLUTION OF THE ITALIAN EASTERN ALPS (Joined with P 54) (Cancelled))
   
P 49 FACIES AND GEOMETRIES OF PELAGIC DEPOSITS IN A JURASSIC PELAGIC CARBONATE PLATFORM/BASIN SYSTEM - SABINA, CENTRAL APENNINES (ITALY) (Cancelled)
   
P 50 THE STRUCTURE OF THE CALABRIAN ALPINE CHAIN AND THE TECTONO-STRATIGRAPHIC EVOLUTION OF FORE-ARC CROTONE BASIN (SOUTHERN ITALY) (Cancelled)
   
P 51 HIGH-PRESSURE AND ULTRA-HIGH-PRESSURE METAMORPHISM IN THE WESTERN ALPS (ITALY) (Cancelled)
   
P 52 BIOSTRATIGRAPHY, SEDIMENTOLOGY AND TECTONO-EUSTATIC EVENTS OF THE LOWER AND MIDDLE JURASSIC OF THE KSOUR MOUNTAINS (WESTERN SAHARAN ATLAS, SOUTHERN ALGERIA) (Cancelled)
   
P 53 ADRIATIC-DINARIDIC MESOZOIC CARBONATE PLATFORM, ENVIRONMENTS AND FACIES FROM PERMIAN TO RECENT TIMES (CROATIA) (Cancelled)
   
P 54 STRUCTURE OF THE ITALIAN DOLOMITES ALONG THE SOUTHERN SECTOR OF THE TRANSALP SEISMIC PROFILE (Joined with P 48)
   
P 55 ALPINE-TYPE LAKES IN ITALY AND SWITZERLAND: GEOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT (Cancelled)
   
P 56 MILANKOVITCH CYCLES IN ITALY AS A GEOCHRONOMETRIC TOOL TO CONSTRUCT GEOLOGICAL TIME SCALES (Cancelled)
   
P 57 THERMOMECHANICAL EVOLUTION OF THE ALPINE BELT: THE WESTERN ALPINE ARC (ITALY) (Joined with B 29) (Cancelled)
   
P 58 A COMPARISON BETWEEN THE APENNINES AND THE ALPS (ITALY) (Cancelled)
   
P 59 THE IVREA-VERBANO ZONE (NORTHERN ITALY): MANTLE PROCESSES AND THE GENERATION OF HYBRID MAGMAS IN UNDERPLATED LOWER CRUST (Cancelled)
   
P 60 THE CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY (K/T) BOUNDARY IN ELLES AND IN THE OTHER TUNISIAN OUTCROPS (Cancelled)
   
P 61 P 61 - MONTE ARGENTARIO AND ISOLA DEL GIGLIO (SOUTHERN TUSCANY, ITALY): A RECORD FROM CONTINENTAL BREAK-UP TO SUBDUCTION, NAPPE THRUSTING AND POST-OROGENIC EXTENSION (Cancelled)
   
P 62 QUATERNARY GEOLOGY OF MERA VALLEY (CENTRAL ALPS, ITALY) (Cancelled)
   
P 63 ACTIVE FAULTS ALONG THE SINAI MICROPLATE (EGYPT) (Cancelled)
   
P 64 GEOLOGICAL SETTING, HAZARDS AND URBAN GROWTH IN SOME HISTORICAL TOWNS OF ITALY
   
P 65 BASIN AND RANGE IN THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN APENNINES (Cancelled)
   
P 66 GEOTRAVERSE ACROSS THE CALABRIA-PELORITANI TERRANE (SOUTHERN ITALY) (Joined with P17) (Cancelled)
   
P 67 ACTIVE VOLCANISM AND RELATED EVENTS IN CAMPANIA (SOUTHERN ITALY): PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EFFECTS OF EXPLOSIVE VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS ON THE ENVIRONMENT AND PEOPLE (Cancelled)
   
P 68 THE LATE TRIASSIC-EARLY LIASSIC OF THE LOMBARDY BASIN: STRATIGRAPHY, PALEOGEOGRAPHY, AND PALEONTOLOGY (Cancelled)
   
P 69 EUROPEAN SUBCONTINENTAL MANTLE AS REVEALED BY NEOGENE VOLCANIC ROCKS AND MANTLE XENOLITHS OF SARDINIA( (Cancelled)
   
P 70 A CRUSTAL SECTION THROUGH INTRUSIVE AND VOLCANIC COMPLEXES OF THE TUSCAN MAGMATIC PROVINCE (CENTRAL ITALY) (Cancelled)
   
P 71 GEOLOGICAL SETTING OF ALBANIAN OPHIOLITIC BELT (ALBANIA) (Cancelled)

Blu notte - Marco Roveri, settembre 2004

 Ora che il 32° IGC di Firenze si è concluso, non mancheranno occasioni per tracciare bilanci e fare commenti. Partecipazione, livello dell'organizzazione, qualità scientifica, impatto sulla società, tutti elementi che saranno oggetto di riflessione. Fin d'ora sappiamo comunque che, sul piano organizzativo, le sessioni scientifiche sono state un successo. Merito dello staff che si è prodigato per diversi anni, curando con passione e competenza ogni dettaglio. Ciò premesso, mi auguro che non vengano sottaciute le negatività registrate in altre importanti parti del Congresso, accomunando tutto e tutti nel plauso generale, nel più tipico dei finali a tarallucci e vino, come la migliore (?) tradizione italiana impone.

Mi riferisco all'organizzazione delle escursioni; chi ha avuto la malaugurata idea di dare la propria disponibilità ad organizzare un field trip si è ritrovato stritolato in un ingranaggio verticistico, sconclusionato e incompetente. Non sto qui a ripercorrere le tappe di un'esperienza che spero non si ripeterà mai più; vorrei solo attenermi ai fatti e i fatti sono questi: 80 escursioni su 105 cancellate e libri guida stampati con immagini virate in blu. Quest'ultima è la classica goccia che fa traboccare il vaso, decisa peraltro all'insaputa degli autori, una vera beffa per tutti coloro che si erano impegnati nella realizzazione di un prodotto di alto livello, anche se la propria escursione era stata cancellata.

Non so come si sia giunti a decidere una impostazione grafica così scellerata, né come si sia potuto concedere carta bianca – pardon, azzurra - ad un pool di dilettanti; certo è che ora centinaia, forse migliaia di copie di inservibili libri guida sono in giro per il mondo, dando un'idea della Geologia dell'Italia (ma non solo) ben lontana dalla realtà. L'impegno profuso da decine di persone nell'organizzazione dei field trip non meritava quest'ultima beffa. In attesa di spiegazioni che non arriveranno. ci si può consolare con un po' di ironia, cercando di immaginare come si sia giunti a quest'ultima decisione, vera e propria "soluzione finale". Nel frattempo, per chi sta richiedendo copie dei libri guida, si provvede ristampando in proprio una versione leggibile.

Blu notte

E' notte fonda quando il manipolo di esperti si riunisce in gran segreto in una stanza inespugnabile dell'Apat a Roma. L'evento impone il massimo della segretezza, nulla deve trapelare e nulla deve rompere la concentrazione degli esperti per quest'ultima storica decisione. C'è infatti da decidere la veste grafica definitiva dei libri guida delle escursioni del Congresso Internazionale di Geologia. Roba da far tremare le vene dei polsi. E' in gioco l'immagine stessa del Paese, affidata in questo caso ai Geologi. Bisogna esprimere il massimo della creatività, scioccare il mondo con una soluzione ardita e mai vista prima; stupire, colpire, per essere ricordati per sempre. Per un tale obiettivo bisogna ricorrere a grandi esperti di grafica e comunicazione, architetti, sociologi, i geologi non servono, anzi, potrebbero essere dannosi e proporre soluzioni piatte e banali. La tensione nella stanza è al massimo quando una voce, che sembra provenire dall'aldilà, pertanto autorevole, si leva perentoria: "Le immagini, tutte le immagini dovranno essere virate in un colore originale!". Semplicemente geniale! Basta con foto a colori o, peggio, in bianco e nero, stucchevoli nella loro pretesa di chiarezza ed efficacia comunicativa, fredde nella loro perfezione, anonime nella loro oggettività. Spazio alla creatività, è o non è questo il Congresso del Rinascimento geologico, che per di più si svolge in una delle culle artistiche del mondo intero? Ora, piovuta dal cielo questa idea folgorante e liberatoria, il gruppo deve solo decidere il colore del viraggio. Sono attimi interminabili e indimenticabili per i partecipanti; qualcuno si fa coraggio e propone un classico viraggio in seppia. Banale, non può funzionare, e poi la tipografia ha esaurito il colore. Silenzio, solo il miagolio lontano di qualche gatto nel blu della notte. Blu della notte? Ecco la soluzione! Un magnifico viraggio in blu cupo, come il blu di questa notte romana, la notte della geologia italiana. La seduta è tolta, tutti sono soddisfatti, saranno ricordati per l'eternità.