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10.5194/nhess-15-315-2015

Geological and geophysical characterization of the southeastern side of the High Agri Valley (southern Apennines, Italy)

Giocoli

¹ ² Stabile

T. A.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8070-0167

¹ Adurno

¹ ⁴ Perrone

¹ Gallipoli

M. R.

¹ Gueguen

¹ Norelli

¹ Piscitelli

CNR-IMAA, Tito, Potenza, Italy

ENEA, Rome, Italy

Eni Spa, San Donato Milanese, Milan, Italy

deceased

20 02 2015

15 2 315 323

2015

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In the frame of a national project funded by Eni S.p.A. and developed by three institutes of the National Research Council (the Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis, the Institute of Research for Hydrogeological Protection and the Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment), a multidisciplinary approach based on the integration of satellite, aero-photogrammetric and in situ geophysical techniques was applied to investigate an area located in the Montemurro territory in the southeastern sector of the High Agri Valley (Basilicata Region, southern Italy). This paper reports the results obtained by the joint analysis of in situ geophysical surveys, aerial photos interpretation, morphotectonic investigation, geological field survey and borehole data. The joint analysis of different data allowed us (1) to show the shallow geological and structural setting, (2) to detect the geometry of the different lithological units and their mechanical and dynamical properties, (3) to image a previously unmapped fault beneath suspected scarps/warps and (4) to characterize the geometry of an active landslide affecting the study area.

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