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Evaluation of the predictions skills and uncertainty of a karst model using short calibration data sets at an Apulian cave (Italy)
The freshwater resource in karst is subjected to both sea level rise and an increasing pressure caused by the high-water demand. Therefore, develo** an understanding of the hydrogeological dynamics of the ka...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Geophysical Researches to Detect Karst Caves in the Main Polje of Apulia
Canale di Pirro, the main polje in Apulia, extends for 12 km in the Low Murge karst area. It hosts the deepest cave in the region, reaching the depth of −324 m. Geophysical analyses have been performed in corr...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Link Between Man and Water in Karst, Through Examples From Apulia (S Italy)
In this contribution three different sites from the Apulian karst of southern Italy are illustrated about the issue of water flowing out in caves, and how these latter represented remarkable sites for the hist...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Hydrogeological Characterization and Modeling at Two Test Sites of the Apulian Karst (Southern Italy)
Differently from the classical hydrogeological methods applied for porous or fractured aquifers, karst groundwater needs specific adaptation in the investigating techniques. Monitoring and surveying actions, p...
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Open AccessWhat are you sexting? Parental practices, sexting attitudes and behaviors among Italian adolescents
Sexting has recently emerged as a public health and social issue. The present study had two aims: a) to preliminarily test adolescent gender differences on parental practices regarding adolescent online life, ...
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Underground Geosites and Caving Speleotourism: Some Considerations, From a Case Study in Southern Italy
Small-size karst landforms may potentially provide very useful information to fully understand the behavior of karst systems and their dynamics. “Inghiottitoio della Masseria Rotolo,” located in a remarkable k...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Detection and Characterization of Sinkholes Through Integration of Field Surveys and Semi-automated Techniques
Sinkholes are among the most typical landforms of karst terrains. They may originate from a simple downward process, through dissolution of carbonate rocks, or through rapid, sometimes catastrophic, collapse, ...
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Open AccessSEIS: Insight’s Seismic Experiment for Internal Structure of Mars
By the end of 2018, 42 years after the landing of the two Viking seismometers on Mars, InSight will deploy onto Mars’ surface the SEIS (Seismic Experiment for Internal Structure) instrument; a six-axes seismomete...
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Seismically induced slope instability maps validated at an urban scale by site numerical simulations
Maps of seismically induced instability at the urban scale can be drawn by means of geographic information system (GIS) tools that integrate different information layers such as (1) a landslide inventory; (2) ...
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Karst geosites at risk of collapse: the sinkholes at Nociglia (Apulia, SE Italy)
This paper focuses on the impacts of contemporary geomorphological processes on fruition activities in a karst area of Salento (Apulia, southeastern Italy). The work illustrates the results of studies in a sin...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Synthesis and characterization of uncoated and gold-coated magnetite nanoparticles
We report on the synthesis and characterization of uncoated and gold coated magnetite nanoparticles. Structural characterizations, carried out using X-ray diffraction, confirm the formation of magnetite phase ...
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Synthesis and characterization of uncoated and gold-coated magnetite nanoparticles
We report on the synthesis and characterization of uncoated and gold coated magnetite nanoparticles. Structural characterizations, carried out using X-ray diffraction, confirm the formation of magnetite phase ...
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Morphometric analysis of sinkholes in a karst coastal area of southern Apulia (Italy)
Salento, the southern portion of Apulia region (SE Italy), is a narrow and elongated peninsula in carbonate rocks, with prevailing low coastlines, locally interrupted by high rock cliffs. The long stretches of...
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Map** the susceptibility to sinkholes in coastal areas, based on stratigraphy, geomorphology and geophysics
Sinkholes and land subsidence are among the main coastal geologic hazards. Their occurrence poses a serious threat to the man-made environment, due to the increasing density of population, pipelines and other ...
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Rockfall hazard assessment along a road in the Sorrento Peninsula, Campania, southern Italy
Rockfalls are common in the steep and vertical slopes of the Campania carbonate massifs and ridges, and frequently represent the main threat to the anthropogenic environment, potentially damaging urban areas, ...
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Wildfire impacts on the processes that generate debris flows in burned watersheds
Every year, and in many countries worldwide, wildfires cause significant damage and economic losses due to both the direct effects of the fires and the subsequent accelerated runoff, erosion, and debris flow. ...
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Introduction to the special issue “Landslides: forecasting, hazard evaluation, and risk mitigation”
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Scenarios of Groundwater Pollution in a Karst Watershed: a Case Study in the Pinar del Rio Province at Cuba
Groundwater pollution scenarios in the Santo Tomás watershed, a site of great importance for Cuban karst, are described in this work. The area hosts one of the most remarkable karst system of the island (Gran ...
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The Impacts of Quarrying in the Apulian Karst (Italy)
The karst region of Apulia (S Italy) has been interested for many centuries in quarrying activities, with regard to extraction of the main carbonate rocks that were used as ornamental and building stones, stro...
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Geomorphological, pedological, and hydrological characteristics of karst lakes at Conversano (Apulia, southern Italy) as a basis for environmental protection
The land around Conversano (Apulia, southern Italy) is part of the Murge karst, interesting limestones and dolomitic limestones of Upper Cretaceous age, in a flat environment with sub-horizontal setting. Dolin...
