Specific objectives:

One of the first objectives is to deploy five distinct prospection/fieldwork campaigns in the

first four months and the fifteenth month of the grant in order to sample the carbonate deposits

at a resolution of 0.5 m.

The second objective is represented by the development of a detailed sedimentological and

sequence stratigraphic model for the Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous carbonate succession,

in months 10-14 and 19-21, on the basis of 800 samples collected from the field area.

The third objective consists in creating a biostratigraphic model by describing a finite number

of micropaleontological associations (with algae, foraminifera and calpionellids) that

characterise the Upper Jurassic (Oxfordian-Tithonian) and the Lower Cretaceous (Berriasian)

stages.

The fourth objective consists in defining a chemostratigraphic model, in months 19-21 by

interpreting carbon and oxygen isotope analysis results on 200 samples.