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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-17-613-2017
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08 May 2017
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| 08 May 2017
A multi-centennial record of past floods and earthquakes in Valle d'Aosta, Mediterranean Italian Alps
Bruno Wilhelm
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
University Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IRD, INP-G, Institut des Géosciences de l'Environnement,
38000 Grenoble, France
Hendrik Vogel
Institute of Geological Sciences and Oeschger Centre for Climate
Change Research, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Flavio S. Anselmetti
Institute of Geological Sciences and Oeschger Centre for Climate
Change Research, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
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We explored the potential of a sedimentary sequence in Valle d'Aosta (Northern Italy) as a natural archive of hazards. Our results suggest that this sequence is regionally the most sensitive to earthquake shaking with the record of 8 earthquakes over the last ~270 years and that it well represents the regional and (multi-)decennial variability of Mediterranean summer–autumn floods. Hence, this sequence offers a great potential to extend chronicles of regional floods and earthquakes back in time.
We explored the potential of a sedimentary sequence in Valle d'Aosta (Northern Italy) as a...
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