Slope Stability Integrate Analyses: The Study Case of Mount Falcone (Central Italy)

Abstract

The proposed study case is rather interesting from a scientific-technical and social-economic point of view, since it is tied to conditions of high geological risk for inhabited, originally medieval or earlier, town of Montefalcone Appennino, where frequent damage, sometimes catastrophic are generated. Integrate geological, geomorphological and numerical analyses were carried out to understand the evolution and the kinematics of different types of gravitational movements. These remarkable phenomena are located on the relief of Falcone Mount in central Italy, where the towns of Montefalcone Appennino and Smerillo are builted. On the basis of field surveys, geomorphological interpretation and numerical analyses, turn out to be specific for falls, slides and deep-sited gravitational deformations, the phenomena were analysed, attempting to reconstruct both a geomorphological and a numerical models, checking whether or not their correspondence. The different deformations regard the arenaceous-calcarenitic-conglomeratic bodies superimposed onto marly clays or weathered levels of the pelitic-arenaceous turbidites; the kinematics are further illustrated and interpreted in detail.