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- PublicationRestrictedThe environmental features of the Monte Corchia cave system (Apuan Alps, Central Italy)(2008-10)
; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;Piccini, L.; Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, University of Firenze, Firenze, Italy ;Zanchetta, G.; Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy; Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, Area della Ricerca CNR di Pisa, Pisa, Italy ;Drysdale, R. N.; School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia ;Hellstrom, J.; School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia ;Isola, I.; Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione Pisa, Pisa, Italia ;Fallick, A. E.; Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre, East Kilbride, Scotland ;Leone, G.; Dipartimento dell’Uomo e dell’Ambiente, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy ;Doveri, M.; Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, Area della Ricerca CNR di Pisa, Pisa, Italy ;Mussi, M.; Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, Area della Ricerca CNR di Pisa, Pisa, Italy ;Mantelli, F.; Agenzia Regionale per la protezione Ambientale della Toscana (ARPAT) – Dipartimento Provinciale di Firenze ;Molli, G.; Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy ;Lotti, L.; Agenzia Regionale per la protezione Ambientale della Toscana (ARPAT) – Dipartimento Provinciale di Massa ;Roncioni, A.; Gruppo Speleologico Lucchese, Lucca Italy ;Regattieri, E.; Gruppo Speleologico Lucchese, Lucca Italy ;Meccheri, M.; Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, University of Siena, Siena, Italy ;Vaselli, L.; Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, UO Pisa, Pisa, Italy; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; The Monte Corchia cave system, one of the most famous and popular caves in Italy, has in recent times been the subject of investigation on its speleothems as paleoclimate archives. This paper describes the geology, geomorphology and water chemistry of the cave system with the aim to elucidate the processes that have generated these speleothems and the properties they contain that are so useful for paleoclimatology. Some general conclusions can be drawn: i) the Corchia system is a cave developed over different altitudes during progressive uplift of the mountain chain in which it is located, probably under drainage conditions very different to those of the present. This has allowed the development of a large (ca. 60 km) and deep (-1187 m) karst system; ii) the dewatering phases have left the deepest chambers far away from clastic input and with long drip pathways; iii) the peculiar geological context has permitted the water to intercept and dissolve a significant source of U (still unknown) that facilitates radiometric dating; iv) in the last 1 Ma at least, no significant changes have occurred in the relief and in the epikarst, in the sense that speleothems have grown under very similar conditions. In addition the extremely low Ca concentration of drip waters have permitted low speleothem growth rates and, at least for the “Galleria delle Stalattiti”, the zone under paleoclimate studies, a stable plumbing system (i.e. chemistry and stable isotopes of drip waters) has produced calcite close to isotopic equilibrium.219 28 - PublicationRestrictedHuman peopling of Italian intramontane basins: The early Middle Pleistocene site of Pagliare di Sassa (L’Aquila, central Italy)(2010)
; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;Palombo, M. R.; Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Universita` di Roma ‘‘La Sapienza’’, Roma, Italy ;Mussi, M.; Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichita`, Universita` di Roma ‘‘La Sapienza’’, Roma, Italy ;Agostini, S.; Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici dell’Abruzzo, Chieti, Italy ;Barbieri, M.; CNR, Istituto di Geologia Ambientale e Geoingegneria, Roma, Italy ;Di Canzio, E.; Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Universita` di Roma ‘‘La Sapienza’’, Roma, Italy ;Di Rita, F.; Dipartimento di Biologia Vegetale, Universita` di Roma ‘‘La Sapienza’’, Roma, Italy ;Fiore, I.; Via San Rocco, Fiuggi (FR), Italy ;Iacumin, P.; Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Universita` degli Studi di Parma, Parma, Italy ;Magri, D.; Dipartimento di Biologia Vegetale, Universita` di Roma ‘‘La Sapienza’’, Roma, Italy ;Speranza, F.; Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione Roma2, Roma, Italia ;Tagliacozzo, A.; Museo Nazionale Preistorico-Etnografico ‘‘Luigi Pigorini’’, Roma, Italy; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; Multidisciplinary investigations at Pagliare di Sassa (L’Aquila, central Italy) suggest that the local succession accumulated from the late Early to the early Middle Pleistocene in a lacustrine environment. In the upper part, clastic sediments are part of an alluvial fan prograding into the lake, grading to a braided fluvial system. The pollen record confirms that a significant glacial phase occurred just before the onset of the Jaramillo inversion. These data, coupled with evidence from the nearby but earlier Madonna della Strada sequence, allow reconstruction of part of the environmental evolution of L’Aquila basin before the Jaramillo Subchron. The mammal species of Pagliare di Sassa include Stephanorhinus hundsheimensis, mostly of open environments, already present at Madonna della Strada. The faunal turnover characterizing the Early to Middle Pleistocene transition is indicated by the appearances of taxa typical of the Italian early to middle Galerian faunas, such as Praemegaceros verticornis, together with Megaloceros savini. The occurrence of Mimomys savini together with Microtus ex gr. Microtus hintonigregaloides suggests that this assemblage is earlier than the Isernia La Pineta fauna. A flint implement and a fragmentary herbivore femur with impact scars probably linked to human activity give evidence of the human peopling of intramontane basins of the Apennine chain since the early Middle Pleistocene.169 31