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  1. Phyletic evolution of calcareous nannofossil species Reticulofenestra oamaruensis: An example of microevolution preserved at IODP Site U1553 (Southern Pacific Ocean)

    Article • Marine Micropaleontology, April 2025, Elsevier

    Professor Isabella Raffi

  2. REASSESSMENT OF THE AGE OF BASEMENT IN THE VAVILOV BASIN DRILLED AT ODP SITE 651 (TYRRHENIAN SEA, MEDITERRANEAN)

    Article • RIVISTA ITALIANA DI PALEONTOLOGIA E STRATIGRAFIA, January 2025, Milano University Press

    Professor Isabella Raffi

  3. Orbital and suborbital temperature variability in the central Mediterranean across the Pliocene/Pleistocene transition

    Article • PLOS One, December 2024, PLOS

    Professor Isabella Raffi

  4. Calcareous nannofossils from the Paleogene Southern Ocean (IODP Site U1553, Campbell Plateau)

    Article • Newsletters on Stratigraphy, December 2024, Schweizerbart

    Professor Isabella Raffi

  5. Calcareous Nannofossil variability controlled by Milankovitch and sub-Milankovitch periodicity in the Monte San Nicola section (Gelasian GSSP / MIS 100–104)

    Article • Marine Micropaleontology, September 2024, Elsevier

    Professor Isabella Raffi

  6. Tropical Warming and Intensification of the West African Monsoon During the Miocene Climatic Optimum

    Article • Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, May 2024, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Isabella Raffi

  7. Apparent Diachroneity of Calcareous Nannofossil Datums During the Early Eocene in the High‐Latitude South Pacific Ocean

    Article • Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, April 2024, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Isabella Raffi

  8. High-resolution climate variability across the Piacenzian/Gelasian boundary in the Monte San Nicola section (Sicily, Italy)

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, January 2024, Elsevier

    Professor Isabella Raffi

  9. The Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) of the Langhian Stage and of the Middle Miocene Subseries

    Article • Episodes, November 2023, International Union of Geological Sciences

    Professor Isabella Raffi

  10. Astrochronology of the Miocene Climatic Optimum record from Ocean Drilling Program Site 959 in the eastern equatorial Atlantic

    Article • Newsletters on Stratigraphy, September 2023, Schweizerbart

    Professor Isabella Raffi

  11. THE DISTRIBUTION RANGE OF CALCAREOUS NANNOFOSSIL SPECIES <em>RETICULOFENESTRA PSEUDOUMBILICUS</em> IN THE MIOCENE: AN EXAMPLE OF ECOLOGICAL INFLUENCE ON EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENT

    Article • RIVISTA ITALIANA DI PALEONTOLOGIA E STRATIGRAFIA, February 2023, Milano University Press

    Professor Isabella Raffi

  12. Neogene-Quaternary Mediterranean calcareous nannofossil biozonation and biochronology: A review

    Article • Stratigraphy, January 2023, Micropaleontology Press

    Professor Isabella Raffi

  13. The role of calcareous nannofossils in building age models for Cenozoic marine sediments: a review

    Article • RENDICONTI LINCEI, February 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Isabella Raffi

  14. The Monte San Nicola section (Sicily) revisited: A potential unit-stratotype of the Gelasian Stage

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, February 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Isabella Raffi

  15. Segmentation of the Apenninic Margin of the Tyrrhenian Back‐Arc Basin Forced by the Subduction of an Inherited Transform System

    Article • Tectonics, September 2021, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Isabella Raffi

  16. Expedition 378 Preliminary Report: South Pacific Paleogene Climate

    Article • April 2020, Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP)

    Professor Isabella Raffi

  17. Early Messinian manganese deposition in NE Cyprus related to cyclical redox changes in a silled hemipelagic basin prior to the Mediterranean salinity crisis

    Article • Sedimentary Geology, May 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Isabella Raffi

  18. The Eocene–Oligocene transition in the C-isotope record of the carbonate successions in the Central Mediterranean

    Article • Global and Planetary Change, August 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Marco Brandano, Dr Laura Tomassetti, Professor Isabella Raffi

  19. Pliocene–Pleistocene sedimentary development of the syntectonic Polis graben, NW Cyprus: evidence from facies analysis, nannofossil biochronology and strontium isotope dating

    Article • Geological Magazine, May 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Elizabeth Balmer, Professor Isabella Raffi

  20. Orbitally Forced Hyperstratification of the Oligocene South Atlantic Ocean

    Article • Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, May 2018, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Isabella Raffi

  21. Evolution of the early Antarctic ice ages

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, March 2017, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Isabella Raffi

  22. Biostratigraphy and evolution of MioceneDiscoasterspp. from IODP Site U1338 in the equatorial Pacific Ocean

    Article • Journal of Micropalaeontology, December 2016, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Isabella Raffi

  23. Calcareous nannofossils as a dating tool in shallow marine environment: an example from an upper Paleogene carbonate platform succession in the Mediterranean

    Article • Newsletters on Stratigraphy, August 2016, Schweizerbart

    Dr Marco Brandano, Dr Laura Tomassetti, Professor Isabella Raffi

  24. Direct stratigraphic dating of India-Asia collision onset at the Selandian (middle Paleocene, 59 ± 1 Ma)

    Article • Geology, August 2015, Geological Society of America

    Professor Isabella Raffi

  25. New data on the stratigraphic distribution of the nannofossil genus <i>Catinaster</i> and on evolutionary relationships among its species

    Article • Journal of Micropalaeontology, July 2013, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Isabella Raffi

  26. Astronomical calibration of the Paleocene time

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, February 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Isabella Raffi

  27. Changes in calcareous nannofossil assemblages across the Paleocene/Eocene transition from the paleo-equatorial Pacific Ocean

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, October 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Isabella Raffi

  28. Revision of the early-middle pleistocene calcareous nannofossil biochronology (1.75–0.85 Ma)

    Article • Marine Micropaleontology, May 2002, Elsevier

    Professor Isabella Raffi

  29. Astronomical calibration age for the Oligocene-Miocene boundary

    Article • Geology, May 2000, Geological Society of America

    Professor Isabella Raffi