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AUTHOR
Gaetano Ferruzza
Evoluzione recente della linea di costa nel golfo di Palermo
Stratigraphical outline of the Madonie Park (Sicily)
Quantitative identification, distribution and source apportionment of anthropogenic trace metals in marine sediment of Milazzo gulf (N-E Sicily): preliminary results
THE GEOLOGY OF THE PARK
Can recreational scuba divers alter natural gross sedimentation rate? A case study from a Mediterranean deep cave
Abstract Di Franco, A., Ferruzza, G., Baiata, P., Chemello, R., and Milazzo, M. 2010. Can recreational scuba divers alter natural gross sedimentation rate? A case study from a Mediterranean deep cave. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 67: 871–874. Submarine caves are environments with features distinguishing them from other littoral habitats but, despite their ecological importance, their response to anthropogenic disturbance has been seldom verified. One potential threat affecting natural communities within caves is represented by recreational scuba diving. Divers' disturbance within marine caves is mainly related to physical contacts and increased sediment resuspension potentially affecti…
Recent coastline variations and their sedimentological implications connected with the anthropic pressure: examples from Sicily (Italy).
Atlante delle opere di sistemazione costiera.
Coastal deterioration versus anthropic and urbanistic evolution: the case of Palermo Gulf.
Multidisciplinary approach for the reconstruction of the sedimentary environment of the mufara formation (middle-upper triassic) and implications about the western tethys.
Selezione dell’habitat in Haliotis tuberculata.
A multidisciplinary approach to study the “survaiving” of the bioclastic poket beach in highly anthropized areas. The case of Mondello bay (Palermo, Italy).
An example of geological path in the Madonie Park (Sicily): the geological path n. 1 “Inghiottitoio della Battaglietta – Portella Colla”.
Approccio multidisciplinare per lo sviluppo di un modello di pesca responsabile nella Sicilia Nord orientale: il ruolo della piccola pesca artigianale
Volcanic soils of Mt. Etna (Italy): Relationships between fluorine absorption and soil characteristics.
Confronto fra l’evoluzione recente di due spiagge bioclastiche: la Baia di Mondello (Palermo) e la Baia di S. Vito Lo Capo (Trapani).
Coastal erosions problems connected with the anthropic pressure in the central mediterranean area: examples from Sicily (Italy)
A high resolution record of the last deglaciation in the southern Tyrrhenian Sea: environmental and climatic evolution.
A multidisciplinary study was carried out on core C106 collected in the Salerno Gulf (southern Tyrrhenian Sea). Two tephra layers recovered in the core, N 18 O record of Globigerinoides ruber and Globigerina bulloides and seven 14 C calibrated ages provided the stratigraphic framework. The core sediments cover the last 28 kyr BP. Seismostratigraphic analysis of a high resolution acoustic profile, integrated by the dated core samples, allowed us to reconstruct the architecture and age of sedimentary bodies on the continental shelf. An integrated study based on different taxonomic groups (nannofossils, pteropods, foraminifera, and palynomorphs) provided palaeoclimatic trends, in agreement wit…
Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Mufara Formation (Middle-upper triassic, Sycily): implications on the Neothethys paleogeography and paleoclimatology
An integrated approach to the detection of the bioclastic poket beaches erosion. The case of Mondello bay (Palermo, Italy).
Cyclostratigraphy and high-frequency carbon isotope fluctuations in Upper Cretaceous shallow-water carbonates, southern Italy
A detailed carbon isotope study has been carried out on a Santonian (Upper Cretaceous) carbonate platform succession that crops out at Monte Sant'Erasmo (southern Italy). Previous centimetre-scale studies on this succession have shown that high-frequency eustatic changes, resulting from the Earth's orbital fluctuations, controlled the hierarchical organization of the depositional and early diagenetic features in elementary cycles, bundles (groups of three to five elementary cycles) and superbundles (groups of three or four bundles). The elementary cycles, which correspond to single beds, suggest a control caused by Earth's precession; the bundles and superbundles record the short ( 100 kyr)…
Transition from marine to hypersaline conditions in the Messinian Tripoli Formation from the marginal areas of the central Sicilian Basin
Abstract Three sections of the early Messinian Tripoli Formation from the northern and southern margins of the central Sicilian Basin (Serra Pirciata, Torrente Vaccarizzo, and Marianopoli) have been studied with the aim to reconstruct the sedimentary and environmental changes which occurred during the transition between marine conditions and the evaporitic events of the Salinity Crisis recorded in the overlying Calcare di Base Formation. A detailed biostratigraphic and cyclostratigraphic study provided the opportunity of cycle-by-cycle correlations between the marginal sections and the reference section of Falconara. The main paleoenvironmental changes are recorded by: (1) the evolution of …
Sedimentological and biostratigraphic study of the Triassic (Carnian-Rhaetian) carbonate succession of Punta Bassano (Marettimo Island, Sicily)
The role of sediments in the detection of the quality of sea water and its potential environmental implications, the case of Mondello bay (Palermo, Italy)
La Geologia del Parco.
Geological Path n.1.
The price of the non planned antropic expansion on the urban and suburban coastal zone. Sedimentological and morphological implications in the Palermo gulf shoreline (southern Tirrenian sea).
The degradation of the coasts: anthropic evolution or involution? examples from the sicily (central mediterranean sea)
The Madonie Park geological guide
Depositional environment and biofacies characterisation of the Triassic (Carnian to Rhaetian) carbonate succession of Punta Bassano (Marettimo Island, Sicily)
AThe aims of this study are to reconstruct the geological setting of the Punta Bassano series (Marettimo Island, Egadi Archipelago, western Sicily) and its palaeogeographic evolution. The reference section for the Upper Triassic of Marettimo shows an alternation of marl and limestone beds together with brecciated levels. The limestones are both homogeneous mudstones with evaporite pseudomorphs and laminated with fenestrae. Foraminiferal, palynomorph, and ostracod associations constrain the Punta Bassano sequence to the Carnian-Rhaetian interval. The Punta Bassano succession represents a shallow inner ramp, ranging from open-marine environment with good water circulation to lagoonal and peri…
GUIDA GEOLOGICA DEL PARCO DELLE MADONIE
Modificazioni recenti della linea di costa connesse con l’azione antropica: esempi dalla Sicilia.
Analisi preliminare delle variazioni della linea di costa connesse con la presenza dei piccoli porti in Sicilia.
Granulometry, mineralogy and trace elements of marine sediments from the Gulf of Milazzo (NE Sicily): evaluation of anthropogenic impact
Granulometry, mineralogy, and trace element concentrations are determined in marine sediments from thirty-six sampling sites in the littoral environment of the Gulf of Milazzo (NE Sicily). Sediment samples were collected in August 2008, along 18 seaward transects, at water depths of ‐10, ‐20 and ‐30 m, by using a Van Veen grab. Grain-size analysis shows predominance of sand (56%) and silt (35%) fractions with respect to clay (7%) and gravel (2%) fractions. Bulk mineralogical analysis documents the presence of quartz, micas, feldspars, calcite, and chlorite, which reflect erosion processes affecting the Kabilian-Calabrian Units. Concentrations of most trace elements in the deeper sediments w…