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The interaction between active normal faulting and large scale gravitational mass movements revealed by paleoseismological techniques: a case study from central Italy.
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English
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3.2. Tettonica attiva
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JCR Journal
JCR Journal
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/151-152 (2012)
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0169-555X
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164-174
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2012
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Abstract
Paleoseismological techniques have been applied to characterize the kinematic behavior of large-scale gravitational phenomena located in proximity of the seismogenic fault responsible for the Mw 7.0, 1915 Avezzano earthquake and to identify evidence of a possible coseismic reactivation. The above mentioned techniques were applied along the surface expression of the main sliding planes of the Mt. Serrone gravitational deformation - located in the southeastern border of the Fucino basin (central Italy) - allowing us to detect instantaneous events of deformation along the uphill-facing scarp. These events are testified by the presence of faulted deposits and by colluvial wedges. The identified and chronologically-constrained episodes of rapid displacement can be probably correlated with seismic events determined by the activation of the Fucino seismogenic fault, affecting the toe of the gravitationally unstable rock mass. Indeed this fault can produce strong, short-term dynamic stresses able to trigger the release of local gravitational stress accumulated by Mt. Serrone’s large-scale gravitational phenomena.
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Gutiérrez-Santolalla, F., Acosta, E., Rìos, S., Guerrero, J., Lucha P., 2005. Geomorphology and geochronology of sackung features (uphill-facing scarps) in the Central Spanish Pyrenees. Geomorphology 69, 298– 314.
Keller, J. V. A., Minelli, G., and Pialli, G., 1994. Anatomy of late orogenic extension: The Northern Apennines case. Tectonophysics, 238, 275–294.
Kilburn C. R. J. & Petley D. N., 2003. Forecasting giant, catastrophic slope collapse: lessons from Vajont, Northern Italy, Geomorphology, 54, 1-2, 21-32.
Lettis W. & Associates, Inc., 1999. Techniques for Identifying Faults and Determining Their Origins, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research Washington, DC 20555-0001 (http://www.elsevierdirect.com/companion.jsp?ISBN=9780123735768)
Malinverno, A., Ryan, W.B.F., 1986. Extension in the Tyrrhenian sea and shortening in the Apennines as result of arc migration driven by sinking of the lithosphere. Tectonics 5, 227–245.
Mariucci, M.T., Amato, A., Montone, P., 1999. Recent tectonic evolution and present stress in the northern Apennines (Italy). Tectonics 18, 108–118.
Meletti, C., Patacca, E., Scandone, P., 1995. Il sistema compressione distensione in Appennino. In: Bonardi, G., De Vivo, B., Gasparini, P., Vallario, A. (Eds.), Cinquanta Anni di Attività Didattica e Scientifica del Prof. Felice Ippolito, Naples, pp. 361–370.
McCalpin, J., 2009. Paleoseismology, second edition. Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, 848p
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Meletti, C., Patacca, E., Scandone, P., 2000. Construction of a seismotectonic model: the case of Italy. Pure and Applied Geophysics 157, 11–35.
Michetti, A.M., Esposito, E., Mohammadioun, J., Mohammadioun, B., Gqrpinar, A., Porfido, S., Rogozhin, E., Serva, L., Tatevossian, R., Vittori, E., Audemard, F., Comerci, V., Marco, S., McCalpin, J., Morner, N.A., 2003. An innovative approach for assessing earthquake intensities: the proposed INQUA scale based on seismically-induced ground effects in the environment. XVI INQUA Congress, Reno. 97 pp., http://www.apat.gov.it/site/en-GB/Projects/INQUA_Scale/Documents/.
Moro, M., Saroli, M., Salvi, S., Stramondo, S., Doumaz, F., 2007. The relationship between seismic deformation and deep-seated gravitational movements during the 1997 Umbria–Marche (Central Italy) earthquakes. Geomorphology 89, 297–307.
Moro, M., Saroli, M., Tolomei, C., Salvi, S., 2009. Insights on the kinematics of Deep Seated Gravitational Slope Deformations along the 1915 Avezzano earthquake fault (Central Italy), from time-series DInSAR. Geomorphology 112, 261–276
Moro, M., Chini, M., Saroli, M., Atzori, S., Stramondo, S., and Salvi, S., 2011. Analysis of large, seismically induced, gravitational deformations imaged by high resolution COSMO-SkyMed SAR. Geology 39, 6, 527–530.
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Patacca, E., Scandone, P., 2001. Late thrust propagation and sedimentary response in the thrust-belt-foredeep system of the southern Apennines (Pliocene-Pleistocene). In: Vai, G.B., Martini, I.P. (Eds.), Anatomy of an Orogen: the Apennines and Adjacent Mediterranean Basins. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, pp. 401–440.
Patacca, E., Sartori, R., Scandone, P., 1990. Tyrrhenian basin and apenninic arcs: kinematic relations since Late Tortonian times. Mem. Soc. Geol. It. 45, 425–451
Radbruch-Hall, D., Varnes, D.J., Savage, W.Z., 1976. Gravitational spreading of steep-sides ridges (“Sackung”) in Western United States. IAEG Bull. 14, 23–35.
Radbruch-Hall, D., Varnes, D.J., Colton, R.B., 1977. Gravitational spreading of steep-sided ridges (“Sackung”) in Colorado. J. Res. U.S. Geol. Surv. 5, 359–363.
Royden, L., Patacca, E., Scandone, P., 1987. Segmentation and configuration of subducted lithosphere in Italy: an important control on thrust-belt and foredeep-basin evolution. Geology 15, 714–717.
Savage, W.Z., Varnes, D.J., 1987. Mechanics of gravitational spreading of steep-sides ridges (sacking). IAEG Bull. 35, 31–36.
Ter Stepanian, G., 1966. Type of depth creep of slopes in rock masses. Probl. Geomeh. 3, 49–69.
Tibaldi, A., Rovida, A., Corazzato, C., 2004. A giant deep-seated slope deformation in the Italian Alps studied by paleoseismological and morphometric techniques. Geomorphology 58, 27–47.
Varnes, D.J., Radbruch-Hall, D., Savage,W.Z., 1989. Topographic and structural conditions in area of gravitational spreading of ridges in the western United States. U.S. Geol. Surv. Prof. Paper 1496, 1–28.
Zischinsky, U., 1966. On the deformation of high slopes. Proc. Ist Conf. Int. Soc. Rock Mech., Lisbon, Sect, vol. 2, pp. 179–185.
Zischinsky, U., 1969. Uber Sackungen. Rock Mech. I, 30–52.
Working Group CPTI, 2008, Catalogo Parametrico dei Terremoti Italiani, versione 2008 (CPTI08). INGV, Bologna, Italy. http://emidius.mi.ingv.it/CPTI/.
Agnesi,V., Macaluso, T., Monteleone, S., Pipitone,G., SorrisoValvo, M., 1978. Tipi e dinamica delle deformazioni gravitative profonde in relazione alle strutture geologiche. I casi di Monte Genuardo e di Scodello (Sicilia occidentale). Boll. Soc. Geol. Ital. 108, 379–389.
Bally, A. W., Burbi, L., Cooper, C., Ghelardoni, R., 1986. Balanced sections and seismic reflection profiles across the central Apennines. Mem. Soc. Geol. It. 35, 257-310.
Barchi, M.R., Galadini, F., La Vecchia, G., Messina, P., Michetti, A.M., Peruzza, L., Pizzi, A., Tondi, E., Vittori, E., 2000. Sintesi delle conoscenze sulle faglie attive in Italia centrale. CNR-GNDT.
Cavinato, G.P., Carusi, C., Dall’Asta, M., Miccadei, E., Piacentini, T., 2002. Sedimentary and tectonic evolution of Plio-Pleistocene alluvial and lacustrine deposits of Fucino basin (central Italy). Sedimentary Geology 148, 29–59.
Cendrero, A., Dramis, F., 1996. The contribution of landslides to landscape evolution in Europe. Geomorphology 15, 191–211.
Chiaraluce, L., Ellsworth, W.L., Chiarabba, C., Cocco, M., 2003. Imaging the complexity of an active normal fault system: The 1997 Colfiorito (central Italy) case study. J. Geophys. Res. 108, 2294.
Cruden, D.M., Varnes, D.J., 1996. Landslides Types and Processes. In: Turner, A.K., Schuster, R.L. (Eds.), Landslides: Investigation and Mitigation, Transportation Research Board, National Academy of Sciences, vol. 247. Special Report, Washington D.C., pp. 36–75.
D'Agostino, N., Giuliani, R., Mattone, M., Bonci, L., 2001. Active crustal extension in the central Apennines (Italy) inferred from GPS measurements in the interval 1994–1999. Geophys. Res. Lett. 28, 2121.
De Mets, C., Gordon R.G., Argus, D. F. and Stein, S., 1990. Current plate motions. Geophys. J. Int., 101, 425-478.
Doglioni, C., 1995. Geological remarks on the relationships between extension and convergent geodynamic settings. Tectonophysics 252, 253–267.
Elter, P., Giglia, G., Tongiorgi, M., and Trevisan, L., 1975. Tensional and compressional areas in the recent (Tortonian to present) evolution of the Northern Apennines. Boll. Geofis. Teor. Appl. 17, 3-18.
Forlati, F., Gioda, G. & Scavia, C., 2001. Finite Element Analysis of a Deep-seated Slope Deformation. Rock Mech. Rock Eng. 34 (2), 135-159
Galadini, F., 2006. Quaternary tectonics and large-scale gravitational deformations with evidence of rock-slide displacements in the Central Apennines (central Italy). Geomorphology 82, 201–228.
Galadini, F., Galli, P., 1999. The Holocene paleoearthquakes on the 1915 Avezzano earthquake faults (central Italy): implications for active tectonics in central Apennines. Tectonophysics 308, 143–170.
Galadini, F., Galli, P., 2000. Active tectonics in the central Apennines (Italy) — input data for seismic hazard assessment. Natural Hazards 22, 225–270.
Galadini, F., Ceccaroni, E., Falcucci, E., 2010. Archaeoseismological evidence of a disruptive Late Antique earthquake at Alba Fucens (central Italy). Boll. Geofis. Teor. Appl. 51, 2-3, 143-161.
Galadini, F., Galli, P., Giraudi, C., Molin, D., 1995. Il terremoto del 1915 e la sismicita` della Piana del Fucino (Italia centrale). Boll. Soc. Geol. Ital. 114, 635–663.
Galadini, F., Galli, P., Giraudi, C., 1997. Paleosismologia della Piana del Fucino (Italia centrale). Il Quaternario 10, 27–64.
Galadini, F., Messina, P., 1994. Plio-Quaternary tectonics of the Fucino basin and surrounding areas (central Italy). Giornale di Geologia 56, 73–99.
Galadini F., Messina P., Giaccio B. and Sposato A., 2003. Early uplift history of the Abruzzi Apennines (central Italy): available geomorphological constraints. Quaternary International 101-102, 125-135.
Galli P., Galadini F., Pantosti D., 2008. Twenty years of paleoseismology in Italy. Earth-Science Reviews 88, 89–117
Giraudi, C., 1988. Evoluzione geologica della Piana del Fucino (Abruzzo) negli ultimi 30.000 anni. Il Quaternario 1, 131–159.
González-Díez, A., Remondo, J., Díaz de Terán, J., Cendrero, A., 1999. A methodological approach for the analysis of the temporal occurrence and triggering factors of landslides. Geomorphology 30, 95–113.
Gutiérrez-Santolalla, F., Acosta, E., Rìos, S., Guerrero, J., Lucha P., 2005. Geomorphology and geochronology of sackung features (uphill-facing scarps) in the Central Spanish Pyrenees. Geomorphology 69, 298– 314.
Keller, J. V. A., Minelli, G., and Pialli, G., 1994. Anatomy of late orogenic extension: The Northern Apennines case. Tectonophysics, 238, 275–294.
Kilburn C. R. J. & Petley D. N., 2003. Forecasting giant, catastrophic slope collapse: lessons from Vajont, Northern Italy, Geomorphology, 54, 1-2, 21-32.
Lettis W. & Associates, Inc., 1999. Techniques for Identifying Faults and Determining Their Origins, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research Washington, DC 20555-0001 (http://www.elsevierdirect.com/companion.jsp?ISBN=9780123735768)
Malinverno, A., Ryan, W.B.F., 1986. Extension in the Tyrrhenian sea and shortening in the Apennines as result of arc migration driven by sinking of the lithosphere. Tectonics 5, 227–245.
Mariucci, M.T., Amato, A., Montone, P., 1999. Recent tectonic evolution and present stress in the northern Apennines (Italy). Tectonics 18, 108–118.
Meletti, C., Patacca, E., Scandone, P., 1995. Il sistema compressione distensione in Appennino. In: Bonardi, G., De Vivo, B., Gasparini, P., Vallario, A. (Eds.), Cinquanta Anni di Attività Didattica e Scientifica del Prof. Felice Ippolito, Naples, pp. 361–370.
McCalpin, J., 2009. Paleoseismology, second edition. Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, 848p
McCalpin, J. and Hart, E., 2002. Ridgetop spreading features and relationship to earthquakes, san gabriel mountains region, southern california -- part a: distribution and description of ridgetop depressions (sackungen). Final Technical Report Contract 1434-HQ-GR-1026, National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program, U.S. Geological Survey.
Meletti, C., Patacca, E., Scandone, P., 2000. Construction of a seismotectonic model: the case of Italy. Pure and Applied Geophysics 157, 11–35.
Michetti, A.M., Esposito, E., Mohammadioun, J., Mohammadioun, B., Gqrpinar, A., Porfido, S., Rogozhin, E., Serva, L., Tatevossian, R., Vittori, E., Audemard, F., Comerci, V., Marco, S., McCalpin, J., Morner, N.A., 2003. An innovative approach for assessing earthquake intensities: the proposed INQUA scale based on seismically-induced ground effects in the environment. XVI INQUA Congress, Reno. 97 pp., http://www.apat.gov.it/site/en-GB/Projects/INQUA_Scale/Documents/.
Moro, M., Saroli, M., Salvi, S., Stramondo, S., Doumaz, F., 2007. The relationship between seismic deformation and deep-seated gravitational movements during the 1997 Umbria–Marche (Central Italy) earthquakes. Geomorphology 89, 297–307.
Moro, M., Saroli, M., Tolomei, C., Salvi, S., 2009. Insights on the kinematics of Deep Seated Gravitational Slope Deformations along the 1915 Avezzano earthquake fault (Central Italy), from time-series DInSAR. Geomorphology 112, 261–276
Moro, M., Chini, M., Saroli, M., Atzori, S., Stramondo, S., and Salvi, S., 2011. Analysis of large, seismically induced, gravitational deformations imaged by high resolution COSMO-SkyMed SAR. Geology 39, 6, 527–530.
Onida, M., 2001. Deformazioni gravitative profonde: stato delle conoscenze e progresso delle ricerche in Italia. In: Pasquarè, G. (Ed.), Tettonica recente e instabilità di versante nelle Alpi centrali. CNR, Istituto per la Dinamica dei Processi Ambientali, Milano, Italy, pp. 35–74.
Patacca, E., Scandone, P., 2001. Late thrust propagation and sedimentary response in the thrust-belt-foredeep system of the southern Apennines (Pliocene-Pleistocene). In: Vai, G.B., Martini, I.P. (Eds.), Anatomy of an Orogen: the Apennines and Adjacent Mediterranean Basins. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, pp. 401–440.
Patacca, E., Sartori, R., Scandone, P., 1990. Tyrrhenian basin and apenninic arcs: kinematic relations since Late Tortonian times. Mem. Soc. Geol. It. 45, 425–451
Radbruch-Hall, D., Varnes, D.J., Savage, W.Z., 1976. Gravitational spreading of steep-sides ridges (“Sackung”) in Western United States. IAEG Bull. 14, 23–35.
Radbruch-Hall, D., Varnes, D.J., Colton, R.B., 1977. Gravitational spreading of steep-sided ridges (“Sackung”) in Colorado. J. Res. U.S. Geol. Surv. 5, 359–363.
Royden, L., Patacca, E., Scandone, P., 1987. Segmentation and configuration of subducted lithosphere in Italy: an important control on thrust-belt and foredeep-basin evolution. Geology 15, 714–717.
Savage, W.Z., Varnes, D.J., 1987. Mechanics of gravitational spreading of steep-sides ridges (sacking). IAEG Bull. 35, 31–36.
Ter Stepanian, G., 1966. Type of depth creep of slopes in rock masses. Probl. Geomeh. 3, 49–69.
Tibaldi, A., Rovida, A., Corazzato, C., 2004. A giant deep-seated slope deformation in the Italian Alps studied by paleoseismological and morphometric techniques. Geomorphology 58, 27–47.
Varnes, D.J., Radbruch-Hall, D., Savage,W.Z., 1989. Topographic and structural conditions in area of gravitational spreading of ridges in the western United States. U.S. Geol. Surv. Prof. Paper 1496, 1–28.
Zischinsky, U., 1966. On the deformation of high slopes. Proc. Ist Conf. Int. Soc. Rock Mech., Lisbon, Sect, vol. 2, pp. 179–185.
Zischinsky, U., 1969. Uber Sackungen. Rock Mech. I, 30–52.
Working Group CPTI, 2008, Catalogo Parametrico dei Terremoti Italiani, versione 2008 (CPTI08). INGV, Bologna, Italy. http://emidius.mi.ingv.it/CPTI/.
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