GRUPPO MINERALOGICO GEOLOGICO NAPOLETANO AND THE MINERALOGY OF SOMMA-VESUVIUS AND CAMPI FLEGREI: THIRTY YEARS OF CONTRIBUTIONS

Abstract

Gruppo Mineralogico Geologico Napoletano (GMGN) is a non-profit organization founded in Naples in 1980 by three mineralogy fans: Massimo Russo, Giovanni Coslovich and Claudio Lombardo (the latter two left the group over time). Over the years GMGN has built up a remarkable experience in the field, so that it has substantially contributed to a better knowledge of the mineralogy of the Neapolitan area, especially Somma-Vesuvius and Campi Flegrei areas. It has enjoyed the collaboration of several major national and foreign research institutes: universities of Bari, Napoli, Milano, Pisa, Roma, the British Museum of London, and the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle of Paris. At the present GMGN cooperates with Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia sezione di Napoli, Osservatorio Vesuviano, Dipartimento di Chimica Strutturale e Stereochimica Inorganica, University of Milano and Associazione Micromineralogica Italiana....