The Problem of Land Fragmentation in the Mediterranean Area: A Case Study

1963 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 40 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. J. Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Area ◽  
Land Fragmentation ◽  
The Mediterranean

The role of regional-scale shear zones in paleogeographic reconstructions: the case study of the Variscan belt in the Mediterranean area

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matteo Simonetti ◽  
Rodolfo Carosi ◽  
Chiara Montomoli ◽  
Salvatore Iaccarino
Keyword(s):  
Earth Sciences ◽  
Shear Zone ◽  
Regional Scale ◽  
Shear Zones ◽  
Mediterranean Area ◽  
Variscan Belt ◽  
Metamorphic Evolution ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Scale Shear

<p>Paleogeographic reconstruction and recognition of the tectono-metamorphic evolution of ancient orogenic belt is often complex. The combination of an adequate amount of paleomagnetic, metamorphic, structural and geochronological data is necessary. Fundamental data derive from the study of regional-scale shear zones, that can be directly observed, by combining detailed field work with structural analysis, microstructural analysis and petrochronology. The Southern European Variscan Belt in the Mediterranean area was partially overprinted by the Alpine cycle (Stampfli and Kozur, 2006) and correlations are mainly based on lithological similarities. Little attention has been paid to the compatibility of structures in the dispersed fragments. A main debate is the connection among the Corsica-Sardinia Block (CSB), the Maures-Tanneron Massif (MTM) and the future Alpine External Crystalline Massifs (ECM) (Stampfli et al., 2002; Advokaat et al., 2014) and if these sectors were connected by a network of shear zones of regional extent, known as the East Variscan Shear Zone (EVSZ).</p><p>We present a multidisciplinary study of shear zones cropping out in the CSB (the Posada-Asinara shear zone; Carosi et al., 2020), in the MTM (the Cavalaire Fault; Simonetti et al., 2020a) and in the ECM (the Ferriere-Mollières and the Emosson-Berard shear zones; Simonetti et al., 2018; 2020b).</p><p>Kinematic and finite strain analysis allowed to recognize a transpressional deformation, with a major component of pure shear and a variable component of simple shear, coupled with general flattening deformation. Syn-kinematic paragenesis, microstructures and quartz c-axis fabrics revealed that shear deformation, in all the studied sectors, occurred under decreasing temperature starting from amphibolite-facies up to greenschist-facies. A systematic petrochronological study (U-Th-Pb on monazite collected in the sheared rocks) was conducted in order to constrain the timing of deformation. We obtained ages ranging between ~340 Ma and ~320 Ma. Ages of ~340-330 Ma can be interpreted as the beginning of the activity of the EVSZ along its older branches while ages of ~320 Ma, obtained in all the shear zones, demonstrate that they were all active in the same time span.</p><p>The multidisciplinary approach revealed a similar kinematics and tectono-metamorphic evolution of the studied shear zones contributing to better constrain the extension and timing the EVSZ and to strength the paleogeographic reconstructions of the Southern Variscan belt during Late Carboniferous time, with important implications on the evolution of the Mediterranean area after the Late Paleozoic. This case study demonstrates how paleogeographic reconstructions could benefit from datasets obtained from large-scale structures (i.e., shear zones) that can be directly investigated.</p><p> </p><p>Advokaat et al. (2014). Earth and Planetary Science Letters 401, 183–195</p><p> </p><p>Carosi et al. (2012). Terra Nova 24, 42–51</p><p> </p><p>Carosi and Palmeri (2002). Geological Magazine 139.</p><p> </p><p>Carosi et al. (2020). Geosciences 10, 288.</p><p> </p><p>Simonetti et al (2020a). International Journal of Earth Sciences 109, 2261–2285</p><p> </p><p>Simonetti et al. (2020b). Tectonics 39</p><p> </p><p>Simonetti et al. (2018). International Journal of Earth Sciences. 107, 2163–2189</p><p> </p><p>Stampfli and Kozur (2006). Geological Society, London, Memoirs 32, 57–82</p><p> </p><p>Stampfli et al. (2002). Journal of the Virtual Explorer 8, 77</p>

Archaeological GIS for Land Use in South Etruria Urban Revolution in IX-VIII Centuries B.C.

2019 ◽  
pp. 287-303
Author(s):  
Giuliano Pelfer
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Mediterranean Area ◽  
Market Area ◽  
Market Demand ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
Subsistence Economy ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Ancient Agriculture ◽  
The Mediterranean

A GIS is developed for analysis of formation, growth, and collapse of past societies. The Urban Revolution in the Mediterranean area between 9th and 13th centuries B.C. pushed by development of Mediterranean market area is a good case study. The process leads to the growth of urban centers and of population. In Ancient Etruria the changes produced the abandonment of older sites and the origin of proto-urban centers on hill plateaus. The GIS is developed for explaining the factors affecting the urbanization process in Tarquinia. Settlement strategy was linked to available resources in the territory. The research focused on land use for ancient agriculture by reconstructing features of land use. The results show that the selection of plateau allowed a better resources management, required by population growth as well by the Mediterranean market demand. The changes explain the transition from a subsistence economy to a production of agrarian surplus in cereals. A new organization based on the private household property of agrarian plots could satisfy a better resource allocation.

scholarly journals Land fragmentation index for drip-irrigated field systems in the Mediterranean: A case study from Ricote (Murcia, SE Spain)

2018 ◽  
Vol 166 ◽  
pp. 48-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharina Heider ◽  
Juan Miguel Rodriguez Lopez ◽  
José María García Avilés ◽  
Andrea L. Balbo
Keyword(s):  
Se Spain ◽  
Land Fragmentation ◽  
Fragmentation Index ◽  
Field Systems ◽  
The Mediterranean

Climate factors and oak decline based on tree-ring analysis. A case study of peri-urban forest in the Mediterranean area

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 17-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuela Romagnoli ◽  
Sara Moroni ◽  
Fabio Recanatesi ◽  
Riccardo Salvati ◽  
Giuseppe Scarascia Mugnozza
Keyword(s):  
Tree Ring ◽  
Urban Forest ◽  
Mediterranean Area ◽  
Oak Decline ◽  
Climate Factors ◽  
Tree Ring Analysis ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Ring Analysis

scholarly journals Analysis of the consumer’s perception of urban food products from a soilless system in rooftop greenhouses: a case study from the Mediterranean area of Barcelona (Spain)

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 375-393
Author(s):  
Mireia Ercilla-Montserrat ◽  
David Sanjuan-Delmás ◽  
Esther Sanyé-Mengual ◽  
Laura Calvet-Mir ◽  
Karla Banderas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Products ◽  
Mediterranean Area ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Consumer's Perception

Archaeological Data and Written Sources: Lustreware Production in Renaissance Italy, a Case Study

2010 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Caroscio
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Area ◽  
Technical Knowledge ◽  
Archaeological Data ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Renaissance Italy ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Written Sources

The major production centres of lustreware in Renaissance Italy (Deruta and Cafaggiolo) have been chosen as a case study to prove the importance of combining archaeological and written evidence, with production in Montelupo and Faenza also taken into account. The focus is on the relationship between different production centres and the movement of potters from one centre to the next as a unique means of transmitting technical knowledge. Written sources such as ‘recipes’ were not created by potters, but were usually collected by others decades after the actual transmission of skills occurred. In this respect the influence of models in the form of ‘fashionable’ objects circulating in the Mediterranean area, together with the movements of people, prove vital. The first appearance and transmission of lustreware are summarized, underlining the importance of the contacts with Spain. If the Italian tin-glazed pottery known as italo-moresca can be regarded as the result of imitated models, lustreware production requires skills that could not have been acquired by chance.

Down-scaling pan-European water scenarios to local visions in the Mediterranean: the Candelaro Basin case study in Italy

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 180-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Khadra ◽  
D. R. D'Agostino ◽  
A. Scardigno ◽  
N. Lamaddalena
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Cognitive Mapping ◽  
Mediterranean Area ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Communication Tool ◽  
State Of Water ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
New Policies

In the Mediterranean, the increasing social impacts of water scarcity are growing, but effective measures to manage such scarcity are difficult to implement due to the variability of stakeholders and the weak means to handle new policies. To ameliorate the future of water management in the region, communication between stakeholders has to be improved. The Water Framework Directive (WFD 2000) defines a European framework for water management and protection at each hydrological basin level and gives priority to environment conservation through participatory and consultative programmes. In the perspective of developing and analysing a set of comprehensive scenarios of Europe freshwater futures up to 2050, SCENES project (Water Scenarios for Europe and for Neighbouring States) suggests the use of fuzzy cognitive mapping (FCM) as an Information and Communication tool significantly able to support public participation. The present paper reports on the use of FCM in a typical Mediterranean area, the Candelaro river basin in southern Italy, to elicit public perceptions on the current pressures on and state of water resources. Based on these perceptions and down-scaling the global scenarios, local visions of future changes were developed and their potential environmental and socio-economic effects explored.

scholarly journals Coins and cultural contact: adoption and use of metal coins by non-Greeks in ancient Calabria (6th- 5th centuries BC.)

2019 ◽  
pp. 36-44
Author(s):  
Maria Beatriz Borba Florenzano
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Change ◽  
Southern Italy ◽  
Intrinsic Value ◽  
Mediterranean Area ◽  
Short Paper ◽  
Focus Attention ◽  
Cultural Contact ◽  
The Mediterranean

We are all familiar with the main questions involved in the adoption and use of coined metal by the Greeks back in the 6th-5th centuries BC; questions such as the steps in the expansion in the Mediterranean area of the habit of coining; abstract value and concrete value; intrinsic value and “fiduciarity” of coined money and so forth. In this short paper, our intention is to focus attention on coin and metal finds in general (hoards, excavations, sporadic findings) in Southern Italy during the 8th- 5th centuries BC our case study intends to call attention to the ways of contact between the apoikiai and non-Greeks communities showing how the expansion of coinage promoted cultural change in this area and period specially as far as the notion of value goes.

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