Dr. Luca Caracciolo

Dr. Luca Caracciolo
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter

Lehrstuhl für Geologie
GeoZentrum Nordbayern
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg
Schlossgarten 5
D-91054 Erlangen
Tel: +49 (0)9131 85 29240
Email: luca.caracciolo(at)fau(dot)de
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Forschungsschwerpunkte

My research is focused on the application of a wide spectrum of Provenance analysis techniques applied to basin analysis, particularly on the relationships between tectonic and sedimentation. Most relevant analytical approaches and research interests are Quantitative sedimentary provenance analysis; Sedimentary petrology and heavy minerals, detrital geochemistry, sedimentary processes (weathering / recycling, sorting and volcaniclastic sedimentation) diagenesis (cementation chronology, pore-water interaction, thermal history), Low temperature thermochronology (Fission tracks and U/Th/He dating). I’m keen at using and integrating state of the art techniques – e.g. Raman and QemScan –  and model compositional data to link  sediment mineralogy to sedimentary processes.

The most exciting and challenging aspect of my researach is to use provenance and sediment composition in different fields, especially those related to the O&G and geothermal industry for enhanced interpretation of facies hetherogeneity, reservoir connectivity, diagenetic environments and their influence on fluid migration . Combining both academic and industry experience, I had the chance to work and publish in areas distributed in all continents including Europe, North and South America, Africa, SE Asia, Australia and New Zealand. I’m actively involved in industry projects and training of professionals from the O&G industry.

Projekte

• Masterstudiengang "GeoThermie/GeoEnergie"
  (Drittmittelfinanzierte Gruppenförderung – Teilprojekt)
  Titel des Gesamtprojektes: Geothermie-Allianz Bayern (GAB)
  Laufzeit: 01.01.2016 - 31.12.2020
  Mittelgeber: Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Bildung und Kultus, Wissenschaft und Kunst (ab 10/2013)
  Abstract

  In Bayern gibt es bisher keinen Studiengang, der auf Geothermie/Geoenergieressourcen fokussiert ist und relevante Lehrinhalte ganzheitlich - von der Aufsuchung und Erschließung bis zur energetischen Nutzung und Speicherung der Ressource - an Studierende vermittelt. Die an den beiden Standorten TU München und FAU Erlangen vorhandenen Lehr- und Forschungskompetenzen sollen durch die Einrichtung eines in der Verantwortung der FAU liegenden interdisziplinären Master-Studiengangs "GeoThermie/GeoEnergie" zusammengeführt und und inhaltlich ergänzt werden. Dies erfordert einen personellen Ausbau der Fachrichtungen I) Seismische Interpretation & Untergrund-Modellierung und II) Reservoirgeologie & Geohydraulik.
  Für den Master-Studiengang "GeoThermie/GeoEnergie" wird ein interdisziplinärer Ansatz angestrebt:
  Neben der geowissenschaftlichen Komponente soll auch die technische Erschließung
  und energietechnische Nutzung von geothermischen Reservoiren, ergänzt durch energiewirtschaftliche
  und berg-/umweltrechtliche Aspekte behandelt werden. Somit kann den Studierenden
  sowohl das angestrebte ganzheitliche Systemverständnis als auch das einem modernen
  Anforderungsprofil der Energiewirtschaft entsprechende Methodenspektrum vermittelt werden.
  Die den Studierenden vermittelten Methoden sind jedoch keinesfalls nur auf Anwendungen in
  der Geothermie beschränkt, sondern auch auf sehr viele andere, das Verständnis des tieferen
  geologischen Untergrunds betreffende Fragestellungen (z.B. Gas-, Fluid- und
  Wärmespeicherung) direkt übertragbar.
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• Late Cretaceous to Recent post-breakup evolution of the African S-Atlantic margin: integrating onshore field studies; sequence development, offshore seismic data, numerical dating and modelling
  (Drittmittelfinanzierte Gruppenförderung – Teilprojekt)
  Titel des Gesamtprojektes: SPP 1375: SAMPLE: South Atlantic Margin Processes and Links with onshore Evolution
  Laufzeit: 01.11.2008 - 31.07.2017
  Mittelgeber: DFG / Schwerpunktprogramm (SPP)
  Abstract

  Multiple phases of volcanism, uplift and subsidence are recorded after the breakup of the Namibian South Atlantic margin segment – features which are regarded as atypical when compared to published examples of other post-breakup continental margin successions. It is currently not understood whether these geodynamic processes are only of regional or a broader, South Atlantic intercontinental importance. Existing low T thermochronometric analyses, cosmogenic isotope measurements on bedrock surfaces and tectonic and stratigraphic analysis of the post-breakup succession could be advantageously completed and calibrated by (A) the interpretation of offshore industrial seismic and well log data (uppermost 2s TWT) and (B) the analysis of onshore sedimentary archives such as post-breakup fluvial depositional sequences, marine terraces, aeolianites, palaeo-seacliffs, incised valleys and syntectonic strata in the hanging-walls of normal faults. Both, onshore and offshore strata provide a high-resolution archive of processes accompanying the breakup and post-breakup evolution of the South Atlantic margin. Many of the coastal marine terraces contain dateable material suitable for biostratigraphic analysis combined with ESR and OSL dating. Offshore seismic structural and stratigraphic analysis and well data will be integrated with a detailed 3D stratigraphic and structural analysis as well as dynamic retro- and forward modelling which forms the basis for a combined 3D onshore-offshore surface-subsurface model.
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Veröffentlichungen

2018

• Alvan A., Jacay J., Caracciolo L., Sanchez E., Trinidad I.:
  Sedimentary facies analysis of the Mesozoic clastic rocks in southern Peru (Tacna, 18°S): Towards a paleoenvironmental Re-definition and stratigraphic Re-organization
  In: Journal of South American Earth Sciences (2018)
  ISSN: 0895-9811
  DOI: 10.1016/j.jsames.2018.04.014
  URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0895981117304534
• Drews M., Bauer W., Caracciolo L., Stollhofen H.:
  Disequilibrium compaction overpressure in shales of the Bavarian Foreland Molasse Basin: Results and geographical distribution from velocity-based analyses
  In: Marine and Petroleum Geology 92 (2018), S. 37-50
  ISSN: 0264-8172
  DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2018.02.017
• Troidl A., Zimmermann R., Stollhofen H., Caracciolo L., Garzanti E., Andreani L.:
  Fluvial-aeolian sedimentary facies, Sossusvlei, Namib Desert
  In: Journal of Maps (2018)
  ISSN: 1744-5647
  DOI: 10.1080/17445647.2018.1526719
• Weltje GJ., Paredis B., Caracciolo L., Heins W.:
  Quantitative analysis of crystal-interface frequencies in granitoids: Implications for modelling of parent-rock texture and its influence on the properties of plutoniclastic sands
  In: Sedimentary Geology (2018)
  ISSN: 0037-0738
  DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2018.01.004

2017

• Caracciolo L., Meinhold G., Critelli S., von Eynatten H., Manetti P.:
  Comment on Maravelis et al. “Accretionary prism–forearc interactions as reflected in the sedimentary fill of southern Thrace Basin (Lemnos Island, NE Greece)”
  In: International Journal of Earth Sciences 106 (2017), S. 387-388
  ISSN: 1437-3254
  DOI: 10.1007/s00531-016-1302-7
  URL: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=84957542450&origin=inward
• Stalder NF., Fellin MG., Caracciolo L., Guillong M., Winkler W., Milli S., Moscatelli M., Critelli S.:
  Dispersal pathways in the early Messinian Adriatic foreland and provenance of the Laga Formation (Central Apennines, Italy)
  In: Sedimentary Geology (2017)
  ISSN: 0037-0738
  DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2017.09.016
  URL: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85031316749&origin=inward

2016

• Henares S, Caracciolo L, Viseras C, Fernandez J, Yeste LM:
  Diagenetic constraints on heterogeneous reservoir quality assessment: A Triassic outcrop analog of meandering fluvial reservoirs
  In: Aapg Bulletin 100 (2016), S. 1377-1398
  ISSN: 0149-1423
  DOI: 10.1306/04041615103
• Caracciolo L, Orlando A, Marchev P, Critelli S, Manetti P, Raycheva R, Riley D:
  Provenance of Tertiary volcanoclastic sediment in NW Thrace (Bulgaria): Evidence from detrital amphibole and pyroxene geochemistry
  In: Sedimentary Geology 336 (2016), S. 120-137
  ISSN: 0037-0738
  DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2016.01.026
• Perri F., Caracciolo L., Cavalcante F., Corrado S., Critelli S., Muto F., Dominici R.:
  Sedimentary and thermal evolution of the Eocene-Oligocene mudrocks from the southwestern Thrace Basin (NE Greece)
  In: Basin Research 28 (2016), S. 319-339
  ISSN: 0950-091X
  DOI: 10.1111/bre.12112
  URL: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=84963795629&origin=inward
• Caracciolo L., Garzanti E., von Eynatten H., Weltje G.:
  Sediment generation and provenance: Processes and pathways
  In: Sedimentary Geology 336 (2016), S. 1-2
  ISSN: 0037-0738
  DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2016.03.015
  URL: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=84962647156&origin=inward
• von Eynatten H, Tolosana-Delgado R, Karius V, Bachmann K, Caracciolo L:
  Sediment generation in humid Mediterranean setting: Grain-size and source-rock control on sediment geochemistry and mineralogy (Sila Massif, Calabria)
  In: Sedimentary Geology 336 (2016), S. 68-80
  ISSN: 0037-0738
  DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2015.10.008

2015

• Caracciolo L., Critelli S., Cavazza W., Meinhold G., von Eynatten H., Manetti P.:
  The Rhodope Zone as a primary sediment source of the southern Thrace basin (NE Greece and NW Turkey): evidence from detrital heavy minerals and implications for central-eastern Mediterranean palaeogeography
  In: International Journal of Earth Sciences 104 (2015), S. 815-832
  ISSN: 1437-3254
  DOI: 10.1007/s00531-014-1111-9
  URL: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=84925502857&origin=inward

2014

• Ingersoll RV, Pratt MJ, Davis PM, Caracciolo L, Day PP, Hayne PO, Petrizzo DA, Gingrich DA, Cavazza W, Critelli S, Diamond DS, Coffey KT, Stang DM, Hoyt JF, Reith RC, Hendrix ED:
  Paleotectonics of a complex Miocene half graben formed above a detachment fault: The Diligencia basin, Orocopia Mountains, southern California
  In: Lithosphere 6 (2014), S. 157-176
  ISSN: 1941-8264
  DOI: 10.1130/L334.1
• Caracciolo L., Arribas J., Ingersoll R., Critelli S.:
  The diagenetic destruction of porosity in plutoniclastic petrofacies: The Miocene Diligencia and Eocene Maniobra formations, Orocopia Mountains, southern California, USA
  Geological Society of London, 2014
  DOI: 10.1144/SP386.9
  URL: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=84930794170&origin=inward
• Henares S., Caracciolo L., Cultrone G., Fernández J., Viseras C.:
  The role of diagenesis and depositional facies on pore system evolution in a Triassic outcrop analogue (SE Spain)
  In: Marine and Petroleum Geology 51 (2014), S. 136-151
  ISSN: 0264-8172
  DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2013.12.004
  URL: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=84891105608&origin=inward

2013

• Caracciolo L., Gramigna P., Critelli S., Calzona A., Russo F.:
  Petrostratigraphic analysis of a Late Miocene mixed siliciclastic-carbonate depositional system (Calabria, Southern Italy): Implications for Mediterranean paleogeography
  In: Sedimentary Geology (2013), S. 117-132
  ISSN: 0037-0738
  DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2012.12.002
  URL: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=84873057062&origin=inward
• Cavazza W, Caracciolo L, Critelli S, d'Atri A, Zuffa GG:
  Petrostratigraphic evolution of the Thrace Basin (Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey) within the context of Eocene-Oligocene post-collisional evolution of the Vardar-Izmir-Ankara suture zone
  In: Geodinamica Acta 26 (2013), S. 12-26
  ISSN: 0985-3111
  DOI: 10.1080/09853111.2013.858943
• Caracciolo L, Critelli S, Innocenti F, Kolios N, Manetti P:
  Reply to the Discussion by Maravelis and Zelilidis on "Unravelling provenance from Eocene-Oligocene sandstones of the Thrace Basin, North-east Greece" by Caracciolo etal. (2011), Sedimentology, 58, 1988-2011.
  In: Sedimentology 60 (2013), S. 865-869
  ISSN: 0037-0746
  DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2012.01368.x

2012

• Ietto F., Le Pera E., Caracciolo L.:
  Geomorphology and sand provenance of the Tyrrhenian coast between Capo Suvero and Gizzeria (Calabria, southern Italy)
  In: Rendiconti Online Societa Geologica Italiana 21 (2012), S. 487-488
  ISSN: 2035-8008
  URL: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=84872284724&origin=inward
• Caracciolo L., Tolosana-Delgado R., Le Pera E., von Eynatten H., Arribas J., Tarquini S.:
  Influence of granitoid textural parameters on sediment composition: Implications for sediment generation
  In: Sedimentary Geology 280 (2012), S. 93-107
  ISSN: 0037-0738
  DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2012.07.005
  URL: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=84867998409&origin=inward
• Caracciolo L, von Eynatten H, Tolosana-Delgado R, Critelli S, Manetti P, Marchev P:
  PETROLOGICAL, GEOCHEMICAL, AND STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF EOCENE-OLIGOCENE SANDSTONES OF THE WESTERN THRACE BASIN, GREECE AND BULGARIA
  In: Journal of Sedimentary Research 82 (2012), S. 482-498
  ISSN: 1527-1404
  DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2012.31
• Tangari A., Andò S., Caracciolo L., Garzanti E., Le Pera E., Scarciglia F.:
  Weathering of crystalline bedrock in Sila Massif and Catena Costiera (Calabria, southern Italy)
  In: Rendiconti Online Societa Geologica Italiana 21 (2012), S. 1218-1220
  ISSN: 2035-8008
  URL: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=84872313127&origin=inward

2011

• Caracciolo L, Le Pera E, Muto F, Perri F:
  Sandstone petrology and mudstone geochemistry of the Peruc-Korycany Formation (Bohemian Cretaceous Basin, Czech Republic)
  In: International Geology Review 53 (2011), S. 1003-1031
  ISSN: 0020-6814
  DOI: 10.1080/00206810903429011
• Caracciolo L, Critelli S, Innocenti F, Kolios N, Manetti P:
  Unravelling provenance from Eocene-Oligocene sandstones of the Thrace Basin, North-east Greece
  In: Sedimentology 58 (2011), S. 1988-2011
  ISSN: 0037-0746
  DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2011.01248.x