Dr Alessandro Lanfranchi, carbonate sedimentologist, geologist

Alessandro Lanfranchi B.Sc. M.Sc. Ph.D.

Senior Geoscience Consultant - Sedimentology & Stratigraphy

Alessandro specialised in carbonate sedimentology, stratigraphy and diagenesis at Milan University and joined Oolithica in 2011. During his early years at Oolithica he was actively involved in exploration activities along the Central Atlantic margin of West Africa and in the Ogaden Basin (Ethiopia).

More recently, Alessandro has participated into a series of field development studies in Pakistan. He is particularly interested in the pore-system characterization of marginal marine siliciclastic reservoirs and in reservoir quality variations associated with the diagenetic overprint.

Alessandro has an excellent outcrop-based knowledge of a wide range of deposystems spanning the Triassic to the Miocene and has organised a number of field-workshops focusing both carbonate and siliciclastic deposystems.

He believes strongly in the value of integrating subsurface datasets with outcrop analogues to improve prospect evaluation

Since arriving at Oolithica, he has developed an interest and expertise in seismic tectono-stratigraphy and seismic-facies analysis.

Alessandro Lanfranchi B.Sc. M.Sc. Ph.D.

Dr Alessandro Lanfranchi, carbonate sedimentologist, geologist

Senior Geoscience Consultant - Sedimentology & Stratigraphy

Alessandro specialised in carbonate sedimentology, stratigraphy and diagenesis at Milan University and joined Oolithica in 2011. During his early years at Oolithica he was actively involved in exploration activities along the Central Atlantic margin of West Africa and in the Ogaden Basin (Ethiopia).

More recently, Alessandro has participated into a series of field development studies in Pakistan. He is particularly interested in the pore-system characterization of marginal marine siliciclastic reservoirs and in reservoir quality variations associated with the diagenetic overprint.

Alessandro has an excellent outcrop-based knowledge of a wide range of deposystems spanning the Triassic to the Miocene and has organised a number of field-workshops focusing both carbonate and siliciclastic deposystems.

He believes strongly in the value of integrating subsurface datasets with outcrop analogues to improve prospect evaluation.

Since arriving at Oolithica, he has developed an interest and expertise in seismic tectono-stratigraphy and seismic-facies analysis.

 

Alessandro's recent publications are listed below.

Ricci C., Rusciadelli G., Della Porta G., Lanfranchi A., Jadoul F. And Latoulier B (2018) - Sedimentary evolution of a coral-, microbialites-and debris-rich Upper Jurassic reef (upper Tithonian, eastern Sardinia, Italy). Sedimentary geology, 376.

Berra F., Lanfranchi A. & Jadoul. F. (2017) - Comments on “The Cenozoic fold-and-thrust belt of Eastern Sardinia: Evidences from the integration of field data with numerically balanced geological cross section” by Arragoni et al., 2016. Tectonics, 36, 182-187.

F. Berra,  A. Lanfranchi,  P.L. Smart,  F.F. Whitaker,  P. Ronchi (2016)  Forward modelling of carbonate platforms: Sedimentological and diagenetic constraints from an application to a flat-topped greenhouse platform (Triassic, Southern Alps, Italy).  Marine & Petroleum Geology, Available online October 2016.

Valentina Marzia Rossi, Fabrizio Berra, Alessandro Lanfranchi and Flavio Jadoul (2012)  Paleo-Strait Clastic Carbonate Sandbodies, Bonifacio Basin, Corsica.  AAPG Search and Discovery Article #50604

Alessandro Lanfranchi, Fabrizio Berra, Flavio Jadoul (2011) Compositional changes in sigmoidal carbonate clinoforms (Late Tithonian, eastern Sardinia, Italy): insights from quantitative microfacies analyses,  Sedimentology, v58(7),  pp 2039-2060.

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