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- PublicationOpen AccessFlooding scenario for four Italian coastal plains using three relative sea level rise models(2017)
; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;; ; ; ; ; ; ;; ; ;The coastal areas of the central Mediterranean Sea are sensitive to climate change and the consequent relative sea level rise. Both phenomena may affect densely urbanized and populated areas, causing severe damages. Our maps show the land-marine flooding projections as effects of the expected relative sea level rise for four Italian coastal plains using (i) IPCC AR5 estimations, based on the IPCC RCP 8.5 emission scenarios and (ii) the Rahmstorf 2007 model. Isostatic and tectonic data were added to the global projections to estimate the relative sea changes expected along the coastline by 2100, as well as sea-flooding. The northern Adriatic map shows the study area, extending for about 5500 km2, and is presented at a scale of 1:300,000 with two inset maps at a scale of 1:150,000. The Oristano coastal plain is about 125 km2; the map scale is at 1:60,000 with an inset map scale at 1:33,000. The Cagliari coastal study area extends for 61 km2; the map scale is at 1:60,000 with two inset maps at 1:30,000. The Taranto area extends for 4.2 km2 and is represented at a scale map of 1:30,000, while the three inset maps are at a scale of 1:10,000.333 126 - PublicationRestrictedSea-level rise and potential drowning of the Italian coastal plains: Flooding risk scenarios for 2100(2017)
; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;; We depict the relative sea-level rise scenarios for the year 2100 from four areas of the Italian peninsula. Our estimates are based on the Rahmstorf (2007) and IPCC-AR5 reports 2013 for the RCP-8.5 scenarios (www.ipcc.ch) of climate change, adjusted for the rates of vertical land movements (isostasy and tectonics). These latter are inferred from the elevation of MIS 5.5 deposits and from late Holocene sea-level indicators, matched against sea-level predictions for the same periods using the glacio-hydro-isostatic model of Lambeck et al. (2011). We focus on a variety of tectonic settings: the subsiding North Adriatic coast (including the Venice lagoon), two tectonically stable Sardinia coastal plains (Oristano and Cagliari), and the slightly uplifting Taranto coastal plain, in Apulia. Maps of flooding scenarios are shown on high-resolution Digital Terrain Models mostly based on Lidar data. The expected relative sea-level rise by 2100 will change dramatically the present-day morphology, potentially flooding up to about 5500 km2 of coastal plains at elevations close to present-day sea level. The subsequent loss of land will impact the environment and local infrastructures, suggesting land planners and decision makers to take into account these scenarios for a cognizant coastal management. Our method developed for the Italian coast can be applied worldwide in other coastal areas expected to be affected by marine ingression due to global climate change.340 10 - PublicationOpen AccessQuaternary tectonic activity of the Murge area (Apulian foreland -Southern Italy)(1997-10)
; ; ; ; ;Pieri, P.; Dipartimento di Geologia e Geofisica, Università di Bari, Italy ;Festa, V.; Dipartimento di Geologia e Geofisica, Università di Bari, Italy ;Moretti, M.; Dipartimento di Geologia e Geofisica, Università di Bari, Italy ;Tropeano, M.; Dipartimento di Geologia e Geofisica, Università di Bari, Italy; ; ; Integration of structural, stratigraphical, and sedimentological data and instrumental records of some recent low-energy seismic events in the Murge area allow us to suggest a new seismotectonic picture of this region, generally considered an aseismic and stable sector of the Apulian foreland.134 1026 - PublicationOpen AccessEvidence of Apulian crustal structures related to low energy seismicity (Murge - Southern Italy)(2001-10)
; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;Del Gaudio, V.; Dipartimento di Geologia e Geofisica, Università di Bari, Italy ;Festa, V.; Dipartimento Geomineralogico, Università di Bari, Italy ;Ripa, R. R.; Dipartimento di Geologia e Geofisica, Università di Bari, Italy ;Iurilli, V.; Dipartimento di Geologia e Geofisica, Università di Bari, Italy ;Pierri, P.; Osservatorio Sismologico, Università di Bari, Italy ;Calcagnile, G.; Dipartimento di Geologia e Geofisica, Università di Bari, Italy ;Moretti, M.; Dipartimento di Geologia e Geofisica, Università di Bari, Italy ;Pieri, P.; Dipartimento di Geologia e Geofisica, Università di Bari, Italy ;Tropeano, M.; Dipartimento di Scienze Geologiche, Università della Basilicata, Potenza, Italy; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; The discovery of recent co-seismic sedimentary structures and the detection of low energy seismic activity in the Murgian plateau (Apulia - Southern Italy) motivated a more detailed examination of the tectonics in this part of the Apulian plate commonly believed to be aseismic. In particular, we examined the north-western zone where a seismic sequence with maximum magnitude 3.2 and tensional focal mechanism occurred in 1991. The analysis of the existing gravimetric data, integrated by three new profiles carried out across the epicentral area, disclosed an anomaly possibly due to an old tensional tectonic structure located within the upper crust. Even though the depth and the age hypothesised for the anomaly source would exclude a direct causal connection with the observed seismicity, this structure could be a shallower expression of a tectonic structure extending down to the crystalline basement: it could represent a zone of relative «weakness» where the regional stress, due to the interactions between Apennines and Apulian plate, encounters conditions facilitating the release of seismic energy.175 369