All natural phenomena on our planet are generated by a chemical-physical gradient. From the tectonic movement of the Earth’s plates to shifts beneath the surface, all are phenomena controlled by pressure gradients, temperature, density, chemical and mineral composition, viscosity, rigidity etc.. The influence on the Earth’s mechanisms of astronomical factors is generally underestimated, even though there is strong evidence pointing to the determining effects of tides on the planet’s dynamics.

Carlo Doglioni is professor of geodynamics at the Sapienza University of Rome since 1997. Previously he worked at the universities of Ferrara, Bari and Potenza. Since 2016 he has been president of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV). His main fields of interest are the mechanisms of plate tectonics and the origin of seismicity. He visited the universities of Basel, Oxford, Houston and Lamont. He received the Spendiarov Prize of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Wegener Award of EAGE and the Robert Berg Award of the AAPG. He is a member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, the Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze (so-colled XL) and the Academy of Europe. 

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