Publications
Peer-reviewed journals
19. Mariani, L., Coletti, G., Vescogni, A., Vimercati, A. and Bosellini, F.R., 2026. Skeletal assemblage fluctuations within persistent Mediterranean coral-reef framework during Cenozoic warming events. Sedimentary Geology, v. 501. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2026.107124
18. Coletti, G., Vimercati, A., Bosellini, F.R., Mariani, L., Guido, A., Vescogni, A., Reolid, J., Auer, G., Basso, D., Collareta, A., Bosio, G. and Bialik, O.M., 2026. Quantitative analysis of Upper Miocene Mediterranean reef carbonates: A tool for reconstructing palaeoenvironmental gradients. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 699, 114023, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2026.114023
17. Coletti, G., Mariani, L.*, Malinverno, E., Vimercati, A., Di Celma, C., Collareta, A., Molli, G., Sarti, G., Bianucci, G., Aguilera, O., Cavallo, A., Urbina M. and Bosio, G., 2026. A window into a middle Eocene mesotrophic mixed siliciclastic-carbonate system from the South American Pacific margin (Paracas Formation, Pisco Basin, Peru). Journal of South American Earth Sciences, v. 74, 105983. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2026.105983
16. Bosellini, F.R., Mariani, L.* and Benedetti, A., 2026. Trajectories of reef coral morphological traits during the early Paleogene hothouse reveal the predictive limits of fossil analogues in a rapidly changing climate. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 683, 113472. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.113472
15. Collareta, A., Agresti, J., Barucci, A., Bianucci, G., Bosio, G., Coletti, G., Di Cencio, A., Mariani, L. and Casati, S., 2025. Notes on a geologically young record of the extinct whale barnacle, Coronula bifida BRONN, 1831 (Calabrian, central Italy). N. Jb. Geol. Paläont. Abh. 315/3, 297–309. https://doi.org/10.1127/njgpa/1277
14. Coletti, G., Borromeo, L., Fallati, L., Luppichini, M., Meroni, A., Maspero, F., Malinverno, E., Bini, M., Palli, J., Basso, D., Vezzoli, G., Garzanti, E., Bracchi, V.A., Savini, A., Desbiolles, F., Pasquero, C., Correggiari, A., Cornacchia, I., Boschi, C., Baneschi, I., Cavallo, A., Masotta, M., Bosio, G., Gallerani, A., Fusi, N., Mariani, L., Galli, A., Andò, S., Bazzicalupo, P., Consani, S., Lazzarotti, M. and Taccola, G., 2025. Combining instrumental, historical, and coastal marine sedimentary archives to analyse floods variability in northwestern Italy during the last thousand years. Quaternary Science Advances, 19, 100289, ISSN 2666-0334, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qsa.2025.100289
13. Mariani, L.*, Coletti, G., Ali, M., Iqbal, M., Shumail, M., Raza Hassan, H.A. and Bosellini, F.R., 2025. Quantitative Biofacies Analysis of Upper Oligocene Reef-Coral Neritic Carbonates (Southern Pakistan). Geosciences, 15, 129. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences15040129
12. Coletti, G., Commissario, L., Mubashir, A., Mariani, L., Granier, B., Brandano, M., Mancini, A., Rusciadelli, G., Ricci, C., Baceta, J.I., Mateu Vicens, G. and Basso, D., 2025. Coral carbonate production during the Paleocene: insights from the Maiella Massif (Pennapiedimonte, Central Italy). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, v. 131. https://doi.org/10.54103/2039-4942/23142
11. Ali, M., Coletti, G., Garzanti, E., Adatte, T., Castelltort, S., Sternai, P., Benedetti, A., Malinverno, E., Mariani, L., Spangenberg, J., Khan, S., Basso, D., Samankassou, E., Kocsis, L. and Usman, M., 2025. The Baroch Nala section (NE Pakistan): A new PETM standard for the eastern Tethys. Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 171. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2024.107183
10. Mariani, L.*, Coletti, G., Bosio, G., Mateu Vicens, G., Ali, M., Cavallo, A., Mittempergher, S. and Malinverno, E., 2024. Tectonically-controlled biofacies distribution in the Eocene Foraminiferal Limestone (Pag, Croatia): A quantitative-based palaeontological analysis. Sedimentary Geology, v. 472. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2024.106743
9. Bosio, G., Gioncada, A., Malinverno, E., Coletti, G., Collareta, A., Mariani, L., Cavallo, A., Bianucci, G, Urbina, M. and Di Celma, C., 2024. Unraveling marine phosphogenesis along the Miocene coast of Peru: Origin and sedimentological significance of the Pisco Formation phosphorites. Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 167. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2024.106941
8. Ali, M., Coletti, G., Mariani, L., Benedetti, A., Munawar, M. J., Rehman, S. U., Sternai, P., Basso, D., Malinverno, E., Shahzad, K., Khan, S., Awais, M., Usman, M., Castelltort, S., Adatte, T. and Garzanti, E., 2024. Shallow-water carbonate facies herald the onset of the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (Hazara basin, Northern Pakistan). Journal of Asian Earth Sciences: X, v. 11, 100169, ISSN 2590-0560. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaesx.2023.100169
7. Bialik, O.M., Coletti, G., Mariani, L., Commissario, L., Desbiolles, F. and Meroni, A., 2023. Availability and type of energy regulate the global distribution of neritic carbonates. Scientific Reports, 13, 19687. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-47029-4
6. Bazzicalupo, P., Bosio, G., N. Meroni, A., Piazza, G., Varzi, A. G., Fallati, L., Coletti, G., Mariani, L., Borgnino, M., Desbiolles, F. and Borromeo, L., 2023. The precarious life of Early Career Geoscientists: data and perspectives from the Italian Academia. Itaian Journal of Geosciences, v. 142, pp. 443-448. https://doi.org/10.3301/IJG.2023.23
5. Malinverno, E., Bosio, G., Gioncada, A., Cimò, R., Andò, S., Mariani, L., Coletti, G., Boschi, C., Gariboldi, K., Galimberti, L., Bianucci, G., Urbina, M. and Di Celma, C., 2023. Laterally-continuous dolomite layers of the Miocene Pisco Formation (East Pisco Basin, Peru): A window into past cyclical changes of the diagenetic environment. Marine and Petroleum Geology, v.147, 105977, ISSN 0264-8172. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2022.105977
4. Coletti, G., Commissario, L., Mariani, L., Bosio, G., Desbiolles, F., Soldi, M. and Bialik, O. M., 2022. Palaeocene to Miocene southern Tethyan carbonate factories: A meta-analysis of the successions of South-western and Western Central Asia. The Depositional Record, 8, 1031-1054. https://doi.org/10.1002/dep2.204
3. Mariani, L.*, Coletti, G., Bosio, G., Tentorio, C., Mateu Vicens, G., Bracchi, V. A., Basso, D. and Malinverno, E., 2022b. Benthic foraminifera as proxy for fossil seagrass from the Lower Pleistocene deposits of the Stirone River (Emilia-Romagna, Italy). Quaternary International, v. 640, pp. 73-87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2022.10.005
2. Mariani, L.*, Coletti, G., Mateu-Vicens, M., Bosio, G., Collareta, A., Khokhlova, A., Di Cencio, A., Casati, S. and Malinverno, E., 2022a. Testing an indirect palaeo-seagrass indicator: benthic foraminifera from the Lower Pleistocene Posidonia meadow of Fauglia (Tuscany, Italy). Marine Micropaleontology, v. 73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2022.102126
1. Coletti, G., Mariani, L., Garzanti, E., Consani, S., Bosio, G., Vezzoli, G., Hu, X. and Basso, D., 2021. Skeletal assemblages and terrigenous input in the Eocene carbonate systems of the Nummulitic Limestone (NW Europe). Sedimentary Geology, v. 425, 106005, ISSN 0037-0738. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2021.106005
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Ph.D. Thesis
- Mariani, L., 2024. Cenozoic benthic foraminiferal associations as tools for palaeoenvironmental and stratigraphic reconstructions. PhD Thesis, University of Milano-Bicocca, Bicocca Open Archive, IRIS. https://hdl.handle.net/10281/462458