A5061213345- Historical and Literary Studies
- Historical and Literary Analyses
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
- French Urban and Social Studies
- Geological formations and processes
- Coastal and Marine Dynamics
- Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis
- earthquake and tectonic studies
- Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
- Landslides and related hazards
- Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide
- Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research
- Italian Literature and Culture
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Linguistics and Discourse Analysis
- Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques
- Educational and Social Studies
- French Literature and Criticism
- European Political History Analysis
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Aeolian processes and effects
- French Historical and Cultural Studies
University of Bari Aldo Moro
2013-2025
Low-lying coastal zones are highly subject to hazards as a result of sea-level rise enhanced by natural or anthropogenic land subsidence. A combined analysis using data and remote sensing techniques allows the estimation current rates subsidence shoreline retreat, supporting development quantified relative projections flood maps, which appropriate for specific areas. This study focuses on plain Tavoliere delle Puglie (Apulia, Southern Italy), facing Adriatic Sea. In this area, is mainly...
At the end of November 2021, a large area Puglia (an administrative region in Southern Italy) was officially nominated as new aUGGp (aspiring UNESCO Global Geopark) by Italian National Commission UNESCO. This comprises northwestern part Murge territory, where Cretaceous sector Apulia Carbonate Platform crops out, and adjacent Premurge southwestward lateral continuation same platform (being flexed toward Apennines Chain) is covered thin Plio-Quaternary foredeep deposits. The worldwide...
The objective of our research was to define the main human–environment interactions during Neolithic period (6500–3700 bc) in Apulia region southeastern Italy based on available published and unpublished data. Knowledge these is crucial understanding cultural social dynamics period, particularly concerning earliest farmers. Using a multidisciplinary approach, paleoenvironmental paleoclimatological data at regional Mediterranean scales were compared with results analyses performed natural...
The global sea-level rise (SLR) projections for the next few decades are basis developing flooding maps that depict expected hazard scenarios. However, spatially variable land subsidence has generally not been considered in current projections. In this study, we use geodetic data from navigation satellite system (GNSS), synthetic aperture radar interferometric measurements (InSAR) and tidal stations to show combined effects of SLR along coast between Catania Marzamemi, south-eastern Sicily...
The Special Issue titled “Coastal Geomorphological Changes from Past to Present” aims provide an in-depth study of coastal landforms and their dynamics [...]
The reconstruction of Late Quaternary sea-level changes in tectonically stable regions presents significant challenges, particularly areas where younger highstands have modified or overprinted older palaeoshorelines. In this context, the synchronous correlation method has emerged as a critical tool for accurately constraining uplift rates and resolving complexities relative indicators (RSLi). This integrates field observations, high-resolution topographic profiles, global curves, iteratively...
This study focuses on the geo-hydrological characterization of coastal zone Tavoliere delle Puglie (Apulia region, Italy), one widest plains in southern Italy. Nowadays, area, mostly devoted to agricultural purposes, is subjected several natural and anthropogenic stresses, such as sea-level rise consequent shoreline modifications, groundwater pumping from shallow deep aquifers, land subsidence, strongly enhanced by human activity. Recent investigations have been conducted assess impact...
<p>The global sea-level rise (SLR) projections for the next decades are basis developing flooding maps that depict expected hazard scenarios. However, spatially variable land subsidence has generally not been considered in current projections. In this study, we use geodetic data from navigation satellite system (GNSS), synthetic aperture radar interferometric measurements (InSAR) and tidal stations to show rates SLR along coast between Catania Marzamemi, south-eastern Sicily...
Quantitative analysis of drainage networks is one the most used approaches for investigation response landscape to tectonic forcing and crustal deformation in different geodynamic setting. Recently, river profile inversion has largely been reconstruction spatial temporal distribution uplift tectonically-active landscapes. The calibration erodibility coefficient particularly effective coastal landscapes, due diffuse presence independent geomorphic markers such as marine terraces. In this...
For the first time, synchronous correlation technique and amino acid racemization (AAR) analyses of Patella spp. Thetystrombus latus shells are applied to an understudied sequence raised palaeoshorelines refine knowledge about terrace phases uplift history in middle-late Pleistocene a sector Apulian foreland (western coast Salento Peninsula, southern Italy). These combined methodologies provide chronological attribution for quantitative assessment vertical crustal movements this foreland,...
Seismic surveys with sub‐bottom profiler were carried out in the Manfredonia Gulf southern Adriatic Sea. Here, a buried surface was recognized on which three valleys, located about 80 km from shelf edge, deeply incised. Beneath this surface, pre‐upper Würm seismic unit (PW) identified. Above, two units recognized: transgressive system tract (TST) and highstand (g 2 ) . On basis of regional correlation onshore offshore data, these their boundaries dated correlated phases last...
Two recently recognised incised valleys in the Manfredonia Gulf are described. The first (CCV) is correlated with current Carapelle and Cervaro streams. second (OSFV) mostly Ofanto River. Six seismic facies seven unconformity-bounded units have been identified, which infilled CCV OSFV. In CCV, during sea-level ranges from −29 to −18 −4.7 m b.s.l., two barrier/spit-backbarrier systems formed most landward sector of valley. lower system was attributed a time interval between 9.2 ka BP ca. 8.3...
Multiple paleovalley systems of late Quaternary age have been widely explored in previous research from the Gulf Manfredonia on basis seismic data, but only limited information is available their proximal (onshore) segments. Through an integration sedimentary, paleoecological (mollusks, benthic foraminifers, ostracods), and geochemical analyses three 30-50 m-long onshore cores a sequence-stratigraphic framework chronologically constrained by 25 radiocarbon we document stratigraphic...
Abstract Field data, U‐Th dating and amino acid racemisation (AAR) epimerisation (IAE) analyses were performed in a sector of the Ionian coast Apulia. Palaeoshoreline 1 (PS1) was identified at +40 ± 5 m with associated terraced deposit (TD1). 2 (PS2) +30 (TD2), characterised by five sub‐units. The sub‐units that mark transgression have an age 127.851 1.47 ky BP (by dating) 128.4 26.2 AAR); one marking highstand falls within aminozone E (MIS 5.5) based on IAE. 3 (PS3) +19 (TD3); they...
Abstract We studied the coastal zone of Tavoliere di Puglia plain, (Puglia region, southern Italy) with aim to recognize main unconformities, and therefore, unconformity-bounded stratigraphic units (UBSUs; Salvador 1987, 1994) forming its Quaternary sedimentary fill. Recognizing unconformities is particularly problematic in an alluvial due difficulties distinguishing that bound UBSUs. So far, recognition UBSUs buried successions has been made mostly by using seismic profiles. Instead, our...
We reconstruct the evolution of Ofanto River delta from 17th century to present using historical maps (1600–1850), official IGM topographic (1850–1980) and recent aerial photographs (2015), we compare long-term morphological changes with Volturno during same time period. The aim this study is define role climatic (flood frequency, synoptic pressure patterns) anthropogenic factors (deforestation, sediment subtraction river sediment) in delta. analysed importance each factor on compared them...
Coastal deposits/barriers react to sea-level rise through rollover or overstepping. Preserved coastal allow us examine responses rise, an important aspect within the context of climate change. This study identifies Ofanto incised valley and examines possible factors that caused considerable difference in shape between this adjacent valleys: Carapelle Cervaro Manfredonia valley. In addition, assesses response transgressive units stepped with a focus on evolution palaeo-barriers/shorelines...
Along the Apulian Adriatic coast, in a cliff south of Trani, succession three units (superimposed on one another) marine and/or paralic environments has been recognised.The lowest unit I is characterised by calcareous/siliciclastic sands (css), micritic limestones (ml), stromatolitic and characean boundstones (scb), calcarenites (cc). The sedimentary environment merges from shallow marine, with low energy temporary episodes subaerial exposure, to lagoonal few exchangeswith sea. stromatolites...
This paper presents a detailed geological and geomorphological analysis of the so‐called givoni (low‐relief, mainly gravelly landforms subparallel to coastline) associated with MIS 5 terrace in northern Gulf Taranto (southern Italy). These can be interpreted as former beach ridges, swash/drift‐aligned spits, or barriers (BSBs); thus, are palaeoshoreline indicators. In study area, recognizing classic marine terraces, that is, surfaces scarps, is difficult, often variably combined scarps....