Publications
Publications
The Malta Chamber of Geologists publishes documents about specific issues concerning the applications of geology in Malta.
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PUBLICATIONS BY MCG MEMBERS
Gatt, P. (2002). Quarrying in Malta. Quarry Management, 29(2).
Gatt, P. (2005). Syntectonic deposition of an Oligo-Miocene phosphorite conglomerate bed in Malta. The Central Mediterranean Naturalist, 4(2), 109–118.
Gatt, P. (2007). Controls on Plio-Quaternary foreland sedimentation in the region of the Maltese Islands. Bollettino Della Societa Geologica Italiana, 126(1), 119–129.
Gatt, P. (2014). Field guide to the Cenozoic platform carbonates and salt tectonics of the Maltese Islands. In R. Heggland (Ed.), Shallow anomalies workshop: indications of prospective petroleum systems? Vol. EAGE (pp. 1–10). EAGE.
Gatt, P. (2019). Evaporite dissolution sinkholes in the Dwejra Depression, Malta. Eur Geol, 48, 53–57.
Gatt, P. (2021). Embayment morphometrics, granulometry and carbonate mineralogy of sandy beaches in the Maltese Islands. Marine Geology, 432. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2020.106394
Gatt, P. (2022). Facies, depositional environments and drowning of Tethyan isolated carbonate platforms: the Paleogene carbonates of Malta. Facies, 68(3), 9. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10347-022-00648-1
Gatt, P. A. (2006). Model of limestone weathering and damage in masonry: Sedimentological and geotechnical controls in the Globigerina Limestone Formation (Miocene) of Malta. Xjenza, 11, 30–39.
Gatt, P. A. (2014). Fluid migration conduits systems in carbonate platforms - Meso-Cenozoic Malta platform. Shallow Anomalies Workshop: Indications of Prospective Petroleum Systems? https://doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.20147433
Gatt, P. A., & Gluyas, J. G. (2012). Climatic controls on facies in Palaeogene Mediterranean subtropical carbonate platforms. Petroleum Geoscience, 18(3), 355–367. https://doi.org/10.1144/1354-079311-032
Gatt, P., Tucker, M., & Davies, R. (2009). Drowning of the Malta carbonate platform: facies and sequence stratigraphy of the Lower Coralline Limestone (U. Oligocene). In Pascucci V & Andreucci S (Eds.), Sedimentary environments of Mediterranean islands (p. 181). Inter. Assoc. of Sedimentologists.
Gruszczyński, M., Marshall, J. D., Goldring, R., Coleman, M. L., Małkowski, K., Gaździcka, E., Semil, J., & Gatt, P. (2008). Hiatal surfaces from the Miocene Globigerina Limestone Formation of Malta: Biostratigraphy, sedimentology, trace fossils and early diagenesis. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 270(3–4). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2008.01.035
Tranchant, J., Fenech, D., Gauci, C., Ghirxi, D., Martins, I.F., Colica, E., Buhagiar, G. (2024). Evaluating Ordnance Survey Sheets (1890s–1957) for Shoreline Change Analysis in the Maltese Islands: Identification of Differences in Cartographic Techniques and Precision. Coastal Research, 40.
Galone et al. (2024) Evolution of Coastal Cliffs Characterized by Lateral Spreading in the Maltese Archipelago. Remote Sensing. doi.org/10.3390/rs16163072
Evaluating Ordnance Survey sheets (1890s – 1957) for shoreline change analysis in the Maltese Islands http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-17822
Gauci, c. et al (2024) Monitoring techniques for rockfall hazard across Malta, Mediterranean Sea. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-17618
Prampolini, M, Gauci, C et al. (2018) Geomorphology of the north-eastern coast of Gozo (Malta, Mediterranean Sea) Journal of maps. 14(2):402-410. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2018.1480977
Fröhlich, S., Petitpierre, L., Redfern, J., Grech, P., Bodin, S., & Lang, S. (2010). Sedimentological and sequence stratigraphic analysis of Carboniferous deposits in western Libya: Recording the sedimentary response of the northern Gondwana margin to climate and sea-level changes. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 57(4), 279–296. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2009.09.007
Fröhlich, S., Redfern, J., Petitpierre, L., Marshall, J. D., Power, M., & Grech, P. V. (2010). Diagenetic evolution of incised channel sandstones: implications for reservoir characterisation of the lower Carboniferous Marar Formation, Ghadames Basin, western Libya. Journal of Petroleum Geology, 33(1), 3–18. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-5457.2010.00461.x
J. Cubitt, C., C. Stummer, B., V. Grech, P., & E. A. Scheucher, L. (2012, June 4). The Integration of Core and Borehole Image Information and Resulting Depositional Model - Moreni Field, Miocene-Pliocene. https://doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.20148237
Knox, G. (1993). Exploration in Petroleum Development in Oman: Getting a Kick into the Creaming Curve. AAPG Bulletin, 77. https://doi.org/10.1306/BDFF81F0-1718-11D7-8645000102C1865D
Knox, G., & John Ealey, P. (1977). The geology of Cyprus and its place in the eastern Mediterranean framework. Geologie En Mijnbouw, 56(1), 66–82. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/285778178
Sultana, D., Burgess, P., & Bosence, D. (2022). How do carbonate factories influence carbonate platform morphology? Exploring production−transport interactions with numerical forward modelling. Sedimentology, 69(1), 372–393. https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12943
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