Search results for "Geomorfologia"
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Geomorphological map of urban area of Palermo (Italy)
2018
The results of a geomorphological survey carried out in the urban area of Palermo are described. The study area is located in the northern margin of Western Sicily and is part of the SE-verging Alpine orogenic belt (Catalano et al., 2013). An E-W mountain range (Sicilian Apennines) is the topographical expression of this belt (Di Maggio et al., 2017). In the Palermo area, the physical continuity of the mountain range is broken by a large topographically-depressed coastal area. This area is set on a half-graben and is characterized by a plain (Conca d’Oro plain), opened to sea and surrounded by wide scarps hundreds of meters tall to the inland. The wide and tall scarps are abandoned coastal …
First results of water erosion rates monitoring on two calanchi fronts in the Sicilian chain
2009
GIS-analysis of gully erosion susceptibility: a key study in north-central Sicily,Italy
2010
Caves in the Belmonte Mezzagno area (PA).
2009
ENVIRONMENTAL AND GEOLOGIC INDUCED RISK: A CASE STUDY IN ALCAMO MARINA (TRAPANI, SICILY)
2009
Human activities often interfere with the natural evolution of the environment, even more so when any rule or criterion of respect for the environment or urban planning is followed. This, in addition to perturb the natural system, determines conditions for geological and environmental risks, particularly when acting on vulnerable areas, poorly suited for urbanization. In the present study, risk conditions for the site of Alcamo Marina, in the territory of the town of Alcamo (TP), are analyzed, which are determined due both to the geomorphologic setting of the territory and to a large number of human interventions. carried out under an irrational approach since the 70s, in this stretch of co…
Note illustrative alla carta geomorfologica della tavoletta Contessa Entellina.
2011
Note illustrative alla carta geomorfologica della Tavoletta Menfi (Sicilia occidentale)
2009
The present note is to describe the morphogenetic processes and the relative landforms that were recognized in the area represented by the 1: 25,000 scale IGMI topographic map named Tavoletta Menfi (Serie 25/V F. 266 IV NO). The geomorphological map was realized by using the classic methodology based on direct geological and geomorphological field surveys, integrating the acquired data with the analysis of 1:18,000 scale aerial photos taken in 1997. From the geological point of view the examined area is characterized by the outcropping of carbonate and terrigenous sediments. The great part of the territory is affected by landslide phenomena, of different sizes and activity degree, that show…
Inside The Glaciers Project: Laser Scanning Of The Grotta Del Gelo (Mount Etna, Italy)
2017
As part of activities of the “Inside the Glaciers” project, managed by an Italian team of speleologists and geologists with the purpose of studying several ice-caves in Europe and South America, a research campaign was recently carried out in Mount Etna (Sicily, Italy). This volcano is the highest active in Europe and hosts more than 200 caves including Grotta del Gelo (Ice Cave) which is located on the Northern flank of Mount Etna at an altitude of about 2040 m a.s.l. This cave was formed during the Etna’s long and most destructive eruption dated from 1614 to 1624 and is one of the most famous because it hosts a small glacier, maybe the southernmost of the Northern hemisphere. Aim of this …