Willian Cavazza obtained a BSc in Geo-logical Sciences in 1983,summa cum lanude,from the AIma Mater Studiorum,Universityof Bologna.His thesis involved field mappingin a controversial late Palaeozoic portion ofthe Carn...Willian Cavazza obtained a BSc in Geo-logical Sciences in 1983,summa cum lanude,from the AIma Mater Studiorum,Universityof Bologna.His thesis involved field mappingin a controversial late Palaeozoic portion ofthe Carnic Alps,and resulted in the Bolognarecognition of the significant effects of the Hercynian orogeny in this area.Supported bygrants from the Italian Ministry of Education,Los Alamos National Laboratories,and theindustrial sector,William then moved to theUnited States where he obtained an MSc ingeology(1985)and a PhD in geology(1989)from the University of California,LosAngeles(UCLA).His MSc research focusedon sediment provenance and dispersal in theMiocene Española rift basin of New Mexico.His PhD dissertation dealt with the sedi-mentary basin analysis of the Ionian forearcbasin of southern Italy.Both projects weresupervised by Prof.Raymond V.Ingersoll.During his PhD years at UCLA he wasinvolved in other research projects,resultingin several papers on Laramide syntectonicsedimentation in Montana,supradetachmentsedimentation in the Mojave Desert,and thepalaeogeography of the Rio Grande rift.展开更多
文摘Willian Cavazza obtained a BSc in Geo-logical Sciences in 1983,summa cum lanude,from the AIma Mater Studiorum,Universityof Bologna.His thesis involved field mappingin a controversial late Palaeozoic portion ofthe Carnic Alps,and resulted in the Bolognarecognition of the significant effects of the Hercynian orogeny in this area.Supported bygrants from the Italian Ministry of Education,Los Alamos National Laboratories,and theindustrial sector,William then moved to theUnited States where he obtained an MSc ingeology(1985)and a PhD in geology(1989)from the University of California,LosAngeles(UCLA).His MSc research focusedon sediment provenance and dispersal in theMiocene Española rift basin of New Mexico.His PhD dissertation dealt with the sedi-mentary basin analysis of the Ionian forearcbasin of southern Italy.Both projects weresupervised by Prof.Raymond V.Ingersoll.During his PhD years at UCLA he wasinvolved in other research projects,resultingin several papers on Laramide syntectonicsedimentation in Montana,supradetachmentsedimentation in the Mojave Desert,and thepalaeogeography of the Rio Grande rift.
