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Earth, Planets and Space | 2012

Terrestrial Laser Scanner techniques in the assessment of tsunami impact on the Maddalena peninsula (south-eastern Sicily, Italy)

Giovanni Scicchitano; C. Pignatelli; Cecilia Rita Spampinato; A. Piscitelli; M. Milella; Carmelo Monaco; G. Mastronuzzi

The coastline of the Maddalena peninsula (south-eastern Sicily, Italy) is characterised by the occurrence of a boulder field associated to an extended soil stripping area and by a gravel/sandy berm. The accumulation of the boulders has been mostly correlated to the impact of the December 28, 1908 tsunami wave. The use of Terrestrial Laser Scanner survey techniques, associated to Differential Global Position System determinations, permits to obtain new data for the assessment of tsunami impact on this coastal area. The computing of the surveyed data using the most recent equations is a useful tool in order to estimate the theoretic inundation limit and to reconstruct its variability in function of the boulders size and of the coastal topography. Moreover, the entire new data set allows to confirm that the hypothesis of the tsunami impact is the most reasonable to explain the occurrence of boulders weighing up to 50 tons on the Maddalena peninsula.


Archive | 2017

Sacred Landscapes and Changing Sea Levels: New Interdisciplinary Data from the Early Neolithic to the Present in South-Eastern Sicily

Giovanni Scicchitano; Elena Flavia Castagnino Berlinghieri; Fabrizio Antonioli; Cecilia Rita Spampinato; Carmelo Monaco

Through the analysis of geomorphological processes coupled to archaeological time markers in one selected site – Ognina in south-eastern Sicily – this paper investigates ritual practices and sacred places associated with sea-level change and shoreline locations. The interdisciplinary approach adopted in this research also provides new data on relative sea-level change during the late Holocene, while at the same time bringing together diverse approaches and methods for the analysis of submerged landscapes. It also aims to act as a blueprint for future directions in this specific field.


Bollettino Della Societa Geologica Italiana | 2017

Uplifted Late Holocene shorelines along the coasts of the Calabrian Arc: geodynamic and seismotectonic implications

Luigi Ferranti; Fabrizio Antonioli; Carmelo Monaco; Giovanni Scicchitano; Cecilia Rita Spampinato

Late Holocene (~6.5 ka) shorelines represented by tidal notches, beach deposits, wave-cut terraces and intertidal organic rims are raised from few decimetres up to 5.5 m above the present sea level in the southern part of the Calabrian Arc, southern Italy. At five localities (Capo Vaticano and Scilla in southern Calabria and Taormina, Schiso, Capo Milazzo in north-eastern Sicily), the uplifted paleo-shorelines form a distinct vertical sequence where the older shorelines rest invariably above the younger ones. Such arrangement documents the occurrence of abrupt uplift events that, within the limits imposed by existing age controls, we attribute to ancient earthquakes. A comprehensive appraisal of published studies has allowed to draw an inventory with a total of possibly sixteen earthquakes which, based on the amount of shoreline displacement (~0.5-2 m) and the length of coastal section involved in uplift, were likely to be of strong size. It appears that the amount of uplift decreased with time during the Late Holocene at all sites but Capo Vaticano, where it remained almost stationary. The co-seismic events appear grouped within four temporal clusters, during which uplift occurred at most of the five coastal sectors investigated here. These clusters spanned time intervals whose duration, although difficult to bracket with precision, is of few hundred years, and are separated by longer (~0.5-1.5 ka) periods of apparent tectonic quiescence. The sources of co-seismic uplifts are still undefined, and should be searched between normal faults in the stretched Calabrian upper crust, or lower crustal thrust faults related to the Ionian subduction.


Quaternary Science Reviews | 2015

Tidal notches in Mediterranean Sea: A comprehensive analysis

Fabrizio Antonioli; Valeria Lo Presti; Alessio Rovere; Luigi Ferranti; Marco Anzidei; Stefano Furlani; Giuseppe Mastronuzzi; Paolo Orrù; Giovanni Scicchitano; Gianmaria Sannino; Cecilia Rita Spampinato; Rossella Pagliarulo; Giacomo Deiana; Eleonora de Sabata; Paolo Sansò; Matteo Vacchi; Antonio Vecchio


Quaternary International | 2011

Uplifted Holocene shorelines at Capo Milazzo (NE Sicily, Italy): Evidence of co-seismic and steady-state deformation

Giovanni Scicchitano; Cecilia Rita Spampinato; Luigi Ferranti; Fabrizio Antonioli; Carmelo Monaco; M. Capano; C. Lubritto


Quaternary International | 2011

Millstones as indicators of relative sea-level changes in northern Sicily and southern Calabria coastlines, Italy

Giovanni Scicchitano; V. Lo Presti; Cecilia Rita Spampinato; M. Gasparo Morticelli; Fabrizio Antonioli; Rita Auriemma; Luigi Ferranti; Carmelo Monaco


Quaternary International | 2011

The contribution of tectonics to relative sea-level change during the Holocene in coastal south-eastern Sicily: New data from boreholes

Cecilia Rita Spampinato; B. Costa; A. Di Stefano; Carmelo Monaco; Giovanni Scicchitano


Journal of Geodynamics | 2012

Raised Holocene paleo-shorelines along the Capo Schisò coast, Taormina: New evidence of recent co-seismic deformation in northeastern Sicily (Italy)

Cecilia Rita Spampinato; Giovanni Scicchitano; Luigi Ferranti; Carmelo Monaco


Journal of Geodynamics | 2014

Raised Holocene paleo-shorelines along the Capo Vaticano coast (western Calabria, Italy): Evidence of co-seismic and steady-state deformation

Cecilia Rita Spampinato; Luigi Ferranti; Carmelo Monaco; Giovanni Scicchitano; Fabrizio Antonioli


Quaternary International | 2014

Millstone coastal quarries of the Mediterranean: A new class of sea level indicator

V. Lo Presti; Fabrizio Antonioli; Rita Auriemma; Annamaria Ronchitelli; Giovanni Scicchitano; Cecilia Rita Spampinato; Marco Anzidei; S. Agizza; Anna Benini; Luigi Ferranti; M. Gasparo Morticelli; C. Giarrusso; Giuseppe Mastronuzzi; Carmelo Monaco; A. Porqueddu

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Luigi Ferranti

University of Naples Federico II

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Marco Anzidei

National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology

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Paolo Orrù

University of Cagliari

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Matteo Vacchi

Aix-Marseille University

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