Applied Geochemistry: Fluids in Earth, Exploration and Environmental Geochemistry

De Vivo, Lima, Albanese

This area includes: a) Study of fluid inclusions (FI) and silicate (MI) in minerals with applications to mining, geothermal, magmatological, volcanological and environmental studies; b) Geochemical prospecting (GP) aimed at research for mineral resources, from "reconnaissance" level at regional scale to "follow up" with the use of soils, stream sediments and floods, rocks, water, air, vegetation; c) Environmental Geochemistry (EG) to investigate environmental issues, at regional and local scale, for site characterization and evaluation of potentially contaminated sites for environmental remediation through ecological / health / environmental risk analysis.

One of the primary aims in this ​​research area is the definition of the levels of natural (background) and actual (baseline) content for metals and non-metals using both the classical methods of geo-mining exploration using statistical analysis with GIS, and most modern approaches (multifractal geometry methods and Compositional Data Analysis).

The analysis of ecological and health risk are applied to the environmental data by developing new models that, starting from verified methods such as site-specific risk analysis, can evaluate, with the aid of GIS, the risk induced by environmental contamination at regional scale in quantitative terms considering, among others, land uses and the exposed population.