With the start of the year 2017, the Federico II University of Naples has provided a special contribution for the FitzPatrick collection. The contribution arises from the awareness of the unique importance of the collection of thin sections of soil donated to CRISP by Fitzpatrick, one of the founding fathers of soil micromorphology and certainly one of its most important exponents.
The over 2500 thin sections preserved at CRISP come from a wide variety of geographical areas of the world and tell and testify to soil types, characteristics, and processes that are very different from each other.
The special contribution from the university aims to enhance the collection, contributing to the setup of spaces not only for display but also equipped with tools and means useful for micromorphological analysis.
