scholarly journals Studying a Subsiding Urbanized Area from a Multidisciplinary Perspective: The Inner Sector of the Sarno Plain (Southern Apennines, Italy)

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (16) ◽  
pp. 3323
Author(s):  
Ettore Valente ◽  
Vincenzo Allocca ◽  
Umberto Riccardi ◽  
Giovanni Camanni ◽  
Diego Di Martire
Keyword(s):  
Multidisciplinary Approach ◽  
Ground Deformation ◽  
Structural Data ◽  
Geodetic Data ◽  
Groundwater Pumping ◽  
Fault Activity ◽  
Southern Apennines ◽  
Urbanized Area ◽  
Anthropogenic Contribution ◽  
Multidisciplinary Perspective

Defining the origin of ground deformation, which can be a very challenging task, may be approached through several investigative techniques. Ground deformation can originate in response to both natural (e.g., tectonics) and anthropic (e.g., groundwater pumping) contributions. These may either act simultaneously or be somewhat correlated in space and time. For example, the location of structurally controlled basins may be the locus of enhanced human-induced subsidence. In this paper, we investigate the natural and anthropic contributions to ground deformation in the urbanized area of the inner Sarno plain, in the Southern Apennines. We used a multidisciplinary approach based on the collection and analysis of a combination of geomorphological, stratigraphical, structural, hydrogeological, GPS, and DInSAR datasets. Geomorphological, stratigraphical, and structural data suggested the occurrence of a graben-like depocenter, the Sarno basin, bounded by faults with evidence of activity in the last 39 ka. Geodetic data indicated that the Sarno basin also experienced ground deformation (mostly subsidence) in the last 30 years, with a possible anthropogenic contribution due to groundwater pumping. Hydrogeological data suggested that a significant portion of the subsidence detected by geodetic data can be ascribed to groundwater pumping from the alluvial plain aquifer, rather than to a re-activation of faults in the last 30 years. Our interpretation suggested that a positive feedback exists between fault activity and the location of area affected by human-induced subsidence. In fact, fault activity caused the accumulation of poorly consolidated deposits within the Sarno basin, which enhanced groundwater-induced subsidence. The multidisciplinary approach used here was proven to be successful within the study area and could therefore be an effective tool for investigating ground deformation in other urbanized areas worldwide.

scholarly journals Long-term geomorphological evolution of the axial zone of the Campania-Lucania Apennine, southern Italy: a review

2017 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcello Schiattarella ◽  
Salvatore Ivo Giano ◽  
Dario Gioia
Keyword(s):  
Southern Italy ◽  
Morphological Evolution ◽  
Structural Data ◽  
Middle Pleistocene ◽  
Southern Apennines ◽  
Axial Zone ◽  
Entire Study ◽  
Erosion Rates ◽  
Uplift Rates ◽  
Land Surfaces

Abstract Uplift and erosion rates have been calculated for a large sector of the Campania-Lucania Apennine and Calabrian arc, Italy, using both geomorphological observations (elevations, ages and arrangement of depositional and erosional land surfaces and other morphotectonic markers) and stratigraphical and structural data (sea-level related facies, base levels, fault kinematics, and fault offset estimations). The values of the Quaternary uplift rates of the southern Apennines vary from 0.2 mm/yr to about 1.2–1.3 mm/yr. The erosion rates from key-areas of the southern Apennines, obtained from both quantitative geomorphic analysis and missing volumes calculations, has been estimated at 0.2 mm/yr since the Middle Pleistocene. Since the Late Pleistocene erosion and uplift rates match well, the axial-zone landscape could have reached a flux steady state during that time, although it is more probable that the entire study area may be a transient landscape. Tectonic denudation phenomena — leading to the exhumation of the Mesozoic core of the chain — followed by an impressive regional planation started in the Late Pliocene have to be taken into account for a coherent explanation of the morphological evolution of southern Italy.

A MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO GLOBAL CORRELATION AND GEOCHRONOLOGY. THE CRETACEOUS SHALLOW-WATER CARBONATES OF SOUTHERN APENNINES, ITALY

2004 ◽  
pp. 103-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
BRUNO D’ARGENIO ◽  
VITTORIA FERRERI ◽  
HELMUT WEISSERT ◽  
SABRINA AMODIO ◽  
FRANCESCO P. BUONOCUNTO ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Shallow Water ◽  
Multidisciplinary Approach ◽  
Southern Apennines ◽  
Global Correlation

scholarly journals Geology of the Epicentral Area of the November 23, 1980 Earthquake (Irpinia, Italy): New Stratigraphical, Structural and Petrological Constrains

Geosciences ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabio Matano ◽  
Silvio Di Nocera ◽  
Sara Criniti ◽  
Salvatore Critelli
Keyword(s):  
Tectonic Evolution ◽  
Foreland Basin ◽  
Structural Data ◽  
Southern Apennines ◽  
Structural Mapping ◽  
Epicentral Area ◽  
Kinematic Evolution ◽  
Stratigraphic Architecture ◽  
Stratigraphic Evolution ◽  
Basin System

The geology of the epicentral area of the 1980 earthquake (Irpinia-Lucania, Italy) is described with new stratigraphic, petrographic and structural data. Subsurface geological data have been collected during the studies for the excavation works of the Pavoncelli bis hydraulic tunnel, developing between Caposele and Conza della Campania in an area that was highly damaged during 1980 earthquake. Our approach includes geological, stratigraphic, structural studies, and petrological analyses of rock samples collected along the tunnel profile and in outcropping sections. Stratigraphic studies and detailed geological and structural mapping were carried out in about 200 km2 wide area. The main units cropping out have been studied and correlated in order to document the effects of tectonic changes during the orogenic evolution on the foreland basin systems and the sandstone detrital modes in this sector of the southern Apennines. The multi-disciplinary and updated datasets have allowed getting new insights on the tectono-stratigraphic evolution and stratigraphic architecture of the southern Apennines foreland basin system and on the structural and stratigraphic relations of Apennines tectonic units and timing of their kinematic evolution. They also allowed to better understand the relationships between internal and external basin units within the Apennine thrust belt and its tectonic evolution.

Post-depositional history of the Miocene Gorgoglione Formation (southern Apennines, Italy): inferences from mineralogical and structural analyses

2015 ◽  
Vol 186 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 243-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Cavalcante ◽  
Giacomo Prosser ◽  
Fabrizio Agosta ◽  
Claudia Belviso ◽  
Giuseppe Corrado
Keyword(s):  
Structural Data ◽  
Axial Plane ◽  
Thrust Belt ◽  
Southern Apennines ◽  
High Potassium ◽  
Upper Miocene ◽  
Fold And Thrust Belt ◽  
Thrust Sheets ◽  
Layer Increase ◽  
Illitization Process

Abstract The Gorgoglione Formation represents the infill of a thrust-top basin, which records the tectonic evolution of the southern Apennines (Italy) since Upper Miocene times. The Upper Miocene basin was divided into two main sub-basins, showing both about NNW-SSW elongation. During ongoing contractional deformation, the Gorgoglione basin was incorporated into the allochthonous units of the Apennine fold-and-thrust belt, as outlined by the emplacement of thrust sheets of internal provenance (Sicilide Unit) and by the development of two main generations of tight to open folds. In this work, the modalities of deformation associated to the incorporation of the Gorgoglione Formation into the fold-and-thrust belt has been documented by means of mineralogical and structural analyses. Mineralogical data show that, in the northeastern sub-basin of the Gorgoglione Formation, the illite content and the order of illite/smectite mixed layer increase near the contact with the overlaying Sicilide Unit. These data are hence used to estimate the relative tectonic load produced by thrusting of the aforementioned tectonic unit. Structural data are consistent with tight, NNW-trending, meso-scale folds particularly frequent in the upper pelitic/arenaceous portion of the Gorgoglione Formation. Within these folded pelitic levels, a well-developed axial-plane foliation, and an ordered I/S (R1 and R3) with higher illite content, is documented. Instead, other folds developed far away from the Sicilide klippen show an incipient axial-plane foliation and a random I/S (R0) with lower illite amount is found in pelites. The data suggest that the eastern sub-basin of the Gorgoglione Formation underwent variable tectonic load, increasing from E to W, as well as deformation produced by thrusting of Sicilide sheet. The mineralogical data also indicate that illitization process is favoured for the high availability of potassium due to the dissolution of k-feldspar. High potassium availability affects the samples subjected to the highest diagenetic degree, characterized by kaolinite illitization process.

scholarly journals Long-term landscape evolution of the Molise sector of the central-southern Apennines, Italy

2017 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincenzo Amato ◽  
Pietro P.C. Aucelli ◽  
Vito Bracone ◽  
Massimo Cesarano ◽  
Carmen Maria Rosskopf
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Landscape Evolution ◽  
Temporal Distribution ◽  
Structural Data ◽  
Early Pleistocene ◽  
Middle Pleistocene ◽  
Southern Apennines ◽  
Geomorphological Evolution ◽  
Present Setting

AbstractThis paper concerns the reconstruction of the main stages of the long-term landscape evolution of the Molise portion of the central-southern Apennines along a transect divided into three sectors (SW, Central and NE). Analysis mainly focused on geomorphological, stratigraphical and structural data supported by chronological constraints, coming from an overall review of past literature and several studies carried out by the authors of the paper during the last 20 years. The results obtained allowed the elaboration of a conceptual model of the long-term evolution of the Molise sector of the central-southern Apennines. Starting from the Pliocene, the emersion of the Molise area occurred gradually from SW to NE, allowing a polycyclic landscape to evolve under the major controls first of compression then transtensional to extensional tectonics as well as climatic variations. Principal markers of the Quaternary geomorphological evolution of the Molise area are represented by the infill successions of the intermontane tectonic depressions located in its internal, SW sector and by four orders of palaeosurfaces that developed between the Early Pleistocene and the beginning of the Late Pleistocene across the region. These markers testify to the alternation of phases of substantial tectonic stability and uplift whose spatial-temporal distribution could be assessed along the investigated transect. Results highlight that the most important stages of landscape evolution occurred during the Early and Middle Pleistocene. At the beginning of the Late Pleistocene, the Molise sector of the Apennine chain had already reached its present setting and further landscape evolution occurred under the major control of climate and land-use.

scholarly journals Strategy to preserve function in lower limbs tumors resection. Vascular competence in multidisciplinary approach

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Ascoli Marchetti ◽  
Lorenzo Di Giulio ◽  
Fabio Massimo Oddi ◽  
Bernardo Orellana Davila ◽  
Riccardo Ciattaglia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Multidisciplinary Approach ◽  
Vascular Anatomy ◽  
Radical Resection ◽  
Lower Limbs ◽  
Multiplanar Reconstructions ◽  
Limb Edema ◽  
Long Term Result ◽  
Term Evaluation ◽  
Multidisciplinary Perspective

Abstract IntroductionAll possible strategy should be adopted to preserve limb function during the definitive removal operation in the case of limbs sarcoma. Multidisciplinary perspective seems to be the ideal choice. The aim of the study is to report our experience gained in collaboration with the IFO oncology orthopedic division and with the operating units of Orthopedics A and B of our institution, reporting the type of intervention, results and complications of the procedures performed.Material and methodsFrom 2011 to 2019, were treated 32 patients affected by primitive and secondary musculoskeletal neoplasm with a mean age of 44 years (14-67 years) in 28 cases (87.5%) were required revascularization. Women accounted for 46.9% (15/32), 53.1% were men (17/32). The preoperative study included a biopsy of the lesion and ultrasonography and CTA with multiplanar reconstructions for the evaluation of the vascular anatomy and neoplasia extension.ResultsThe average postoperative follow-up was 20.1 months. The reconstruction of the vessels has been implemented in 14/32 (43.7%) mainly using the autologous saphenous contralateral vein. The use of the prosthesis was performed in the others cases (with PTFE and Dacron K prosthesis). In 5 cases (15.6%) the patients had lower limb edema, with a distance venous patency of 26/32 (81.2%) and arterial patency of 100%. We had no mortality at 30 days. Two patients underwent VAC therapy. No amputations were performed at 30 days. In 14 patients was performed perioperative chemotherapy or radiotherapy.ConclusionsA long-term evaluation is needed to determine the implications at distance, in patients undergoing radical resection of cancer in which are necessary for skills vascular surgery. The long term result is conditioned by the prognosis of neoplasm. The multidisciplinary approach is always requested.

An analysis of factors and conditions pertaining to the rise of the sharing economy

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamid Yeganeh
Keyword(s):  
Multidisciplinary Approach ◽  
Sharing Economy ◽  
World Population ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Psychological Conditions ◽  
World Population Growth ◽  
Emerging Trends ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
The World ◽  
Multidisciplinary Perspective

PurposeThis study aims to examine the various factors and conditions pertaining to the rise of the sharing economy.Design/methodology/approachAfter framing the sharing economy concept, the study adopts a multidisciplinary approach and relies on the extant literature to analyze and classify eight major groups of factors behind the rise of the sharing economy.FindingsThe analysis indicates that the sharing economy (1) represents a significant paradigm shift emphasizing utilization rather than possession and relying on mutual trust, collaboration and reciprocity; (2) benefits from fundamental transformations such as the world population growth, global urbanization, surge in the world middle class and the convergence of tastes and preferences; (3) relies on technological innovation but is affected by socio-cultural and psychological conditions; (4) is driven by emerging trends in consumption, marketing and working conditions; (5) benefits from lax or nonexistent regulation and taxation; and (6) is recognized as clean and environmentally friendly.Originality/valueThis paper's chief contribution resides in adopting a multidisciplinary perspective to offer an in-depth analysis of the various types of factors behind the rise of the sharing economy.

Surface Deformation in Northeast Italy by using time series InSAR techniques with Sentinel-1 data

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giulia Areggi ◽  
Cristiano Tolomei ◽  
Lorenzo Bonini ◽  
Giuseppe Pezzo
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Surface Deformation ◽  
Ground Deformation ◽  
Geodetic Data ◽  
Plate Motion ◽  
Tectonic Structures ◽  
Synthetic Aperture Radar Data ◽  
Area Of Interest ◽  
Spatial Coverage ◽  
Active Tectonic

<p>Geodetic data provide useful information on surface deformation over long period of time. Applying time series methods to geodetic data, several phenomena were studied. In particular, the potentials of geodetic data were exploited to detect and measure slow tectonic signals such as interseismic strain accumulation. During the interseismic period, when the faults are locked, an accumulation of deformation can occur in response to active tectonic stresses. Considering that such energy can be released through earthquakes, the estimation of surface deformation and the long-term strain rate reveals itself a useful approach for seismic hazard investigations. In this study, we used remote sensing Synthetic Aperture Radar data to evaluate the ground deformation in the Southeastern Alps (Northeastern Italy), an area characterized by an active convergent regime (Adria plate motion is ~ 2mm/yr) as well as several active tectonic structures. We used SAR images provided by Sentinel-1A/B satellites spanning the 2015-2019 temporal interval by applying the multi temporal Small Baseline Subset Interferometry (SBAS) technique. The method is based on a combination of a large number of interferograms characterized by small temporal and geometric baseline in order to reduce decorrelation effects and increase the spatial coverage over the area of interest. The outcomes consist of displacement time series and a mean ground velocity map for each coherent pixels with respect to the satellite Line-of-Sight (LoS). Some detected patterns can be attributed to subsidence phenomena, affecting the plain in the area under analysis, and due to the compaction of the sediments.</p>

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