Enrico Miccadei

• University of Chieti-Pescara

Crater counting was developed in the early 1960s and allows the relative dating of planetary surfaces. Through the construction of a proper crater size-frequency distribution (CSFD), the crater counting permits to derive the absolute age of a certain surface. The presence of secondary impact craters (SICs) and fragmented single impactor craters (FS...

Outflow channels represent one of the major erosional features on Mars, which extend for hundreds of kilometers. These channels are thought to have been carved by huge volumes of liquid water released during outburst flood events associated with collapse zones called chaotic terrains. Ares Vallis is one of the largest outflow channels that flow int...

On Mars, landslides, mass-wasting phenomena and gravitational deformation are present over a large area of the planet, from the polar to equatorial regions. The most spectacular and best studied landslides are those in Valles Marineris where many mass wasting phenomena occurred between Hesperian and Late Amazonian periods. Various types of landslid...

The surface of Mars is characterized by the presence of numerous gravity-induced phenomena and mass movements with greatly variable sizes and peculiarities. Detailed geomorphological studies have recently made it possible to identify many landslide-like landforms along the slopes bordering pits of Sisyphi Cavi in Noachis Terra, the southern hemisph...

Cliff erosion is an unstoppable natural process increasingly occurring due to climate change and frequently causing crucial georisks on rocky coasts throughout the world. The resilience of a cliff depends on a variety of environmental, geometrical, geological and geotechnical conditions that have been included in several heuristic coastal hazard as...

Abruzzo Periadriatic Area (Central Italy) is sadly acknowledged as highly exposed to geo-hydrological hazards, with small-to-medium size catchments and urban areas strongly affected by natural phenomena. In the present work, the Pescara River basin, hit in the past by several floods and concurrent superficial landslides due to localized and intense...

Landslides are geomorphological features observed on many planetary bodies, formed in a wide range of geological, geomorphological and environmental conditions. Hence, study of their morphological and morphometric characteristics, along with their absolute or relative dating, can improve the understanding of geological and environmental conditions...

San Nicola Island, pertaining to the Tremiti Archipelago (Southern Adriatic Sea, Italy), is widely affected by cliff retreat and gravitational phenomena which severely threaten its monumental historical and natural value. In this study, geomorphological features of the area were derived following a stepwise approach, combining multitemporal stereos...

This paper presents a morphometric and structural-geomorphological approach to identifying morphotectonic features across an area underlain by lithologies that do not easily record tectonic deformations but are widely affected by seismic activity. The middle Biferno River Valley (Central Italy) was chosen as a study area. It was investigated throug...

Central Italy is sadly acknowledged as highly exposed to natural hazards and affected by ever-present disasters. The middle Adriatic coastal area of the Abruzzo Region has been severely affected by heavy rainfall and flood events in recent times. It is characterized by moderate to low annual precipitation and, occasionally, by serious rainfall even...

This paper presents the results of the 2021 and 2022 field activities carried out at San Nicola Island (Tremiti Islands, Southern Adriatic Sea) by two groups of students as part of the Environmental Geomorphology Field Mapping course held within the Master's Degree in Geological Sciences and Technologies of Earth and Planets at University ‘G. d'Ann...

The paper presents a map of sediment surface distribution and bedforms in the Harle tidal inlet, German Wadden Sea. Data collection, processing, and map editing were realized within the sublittoral mapping program of Lower Saxony national waters carried out by the NLWKN – Coastal Research Station. The map is the result of the combined use of multib...

Marine caves are sites of great interest from geomorphological and ecological viewpoints due to their significant environmental variability, being located at the boundary between marine and terrestrial domains. Most of the Mediterranean marine caves resulted from karst phenomena which widely affected the carbonate landscapes. At Tremiti Archipelago...

The increasing scientific interest in urban geomorphological survey and mapping is recently demonstrated by the number of case studies which can be found in literature. It is due to the support the discipline brings to the knowledge of the effects of urban growth on geomorphological processes and landforms and vice versa, and to the analysis of urb...

Ionic exchange tests have been performed on superficial wastewaters to remove ammonia using a volcanic zeolitized rock from Lazio Region (Central Italy). The zeolitite (natural zeolite) is characterized by chabazite, phillipsite and minor amounts of sanidine, leucite and analcime. After preliminary column experiments in laboratory focused to determ...

Rampart craters are typical impact structures of Mars and are characterized by fluidized or lobate ejecta blankets. Such structures may result from impact processes interacting with volatiles in the crust and/or with the atmosphere. Determining the age of their formation, therefore, is potentially important for understanding the evolutionary histor...

Landslides are among the most widespread and frequent natural hazards that lead to fatalities, socioeconomic losses, and property damage globally [1,2]. These phenomena also play essential roles in landscape evolution and occur in relation to peculiar predisposing factors (i.e., morphology, lithology, geological setting, land use, climate, etc.) an...

Ionic exchange tests have been performed on superficial wastewaters to remove ammonia by the use of a volcanic zeolitized rock from Lazio Region (Central Italy). The zeolitite (natural zeolite) is characterized by chabazite, phillipsite and minor amounts of sanidine, leucite and analcime. After preliminary column experiments in laboratory focused t...

Mass movements processes (i.e., landslides and snow avalanches) play an important role in landscape evolution and largely affect high mountain environments worldwide and in Italy. The increase in temperatures, the irregularity of intense weather events, and several heavy snowfall events increased mass movements’ occurrence, especially in mountain r...

Drainage basin-scale morphometric analysis and morphological evidence of tectonics represent helpful tools to evaluate and investigate morphoneotectonic processes in tectonically active regions. In this perspective, we applied an integrated analysis to the Abruzzo Periadriatic Area, between the Tronto and Sinello rivers (Central Italy). It involved...

Landslides are widespread natural phenomena that play an important role in landscape evolution and are responsible for several casualties and damages. Slope instability is linked to the combination of geological, geomorphological, and climatic factors with various triggering mechanisms; among these, seismic shaking can induce relevant changes in th...

In this paper, a geomorphological map of Pescara del Tronto area (Sibillini Mts, Marche Region) is presented. The work focuses on the geomorphological analysis performed in a zone strongly struck by the 2016–2017 seismic sequence of Central Apennines. The geomorphological map (1:7,500 scale) was obtained through an integrated approach that incorpor...

Quaternary continental deposits record spatio-temporal changes of the landscape and offer insights for drainage network analysis and paleoenvironmental reconstructions. This paper focuses on the Turano River, a left tributary of the Velino River, which flows in the southwestern Abruzzo area at the boundary with Lazio Region. Its basin preserves lit...

Summary of the paper: "Large-Scale and Deep-Seated Gravitational Slope Deformations on Mars: A Review. Geosciences 11(4):174" for Encyclopedia: https://encyclopedia.pub/10123

The availability of high-quality surface data acquired by recent Mars missions and the development of increasingly accurate methods for analysis have made it possible to identify, describe, and analyze many geological and geomorphological processes previously unknown or unstudied on Mars. Among these, the slow and large-scale slope deformational ph...

Landslides are a widespread natural phenomenon that play an important role in landscape evolution and are responsible for several casualties and damages. The Abruzzo Region (Central Italy) is largely affected by different types of landslides from mountainous to coastal areas. In particular, the hilly piedmont area is characterized by active geomorp...

The growing interest in monitoring the marine environment has strongly encouraged governmental agencies and research institutes to undertake seabed mapping programs and stimulated scientific interest in innovative mapping methods and tools. In this study, object-based image analysis was used to map a very shallow tidal inlet, characterized by high...

Ice cover changes have affected the Svalbard Islands during the Quaternary and conditioned a complex paraglacial landscape. In these remote and poorly vegetated arctic areas, the integration of field investigations and analysis of aerial images and DTMs or terrestrial laser scanning, is effective in the understanding landscape features and changes....

The 2019 Geomorphological Field Camp at San Domino Island (Tremiti Islands, Southern Adriatic Sea) is the result of geological and geomorphological field work activities carried out by a group of students attending the Geomorphological field mapping course of the Master’s Degree in Geological Science and Technology (University of Chieti-Pescara). T...

Snow avalanches are critical events due to the sudden instability of snow in mountain regions. Seismically induced snow avalanches, due to a particular type of trigger perturbing snow-covered slopes, are occasional events in geodynamically active mountain regions around the world, which can lead to large anomalous avalanches. The seismic trigger of...

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is the most severe global health and socioeconomic crisis of our time, and represents the greatest challenge faced by the world since the end of the Second World War. The academic literature indicates that climatic features, specifically temperature and absolute humidity, are very important factors a...

Urban and small catchment landslides and floods are common types of hazards caused by intense rainfall. The detailed geomorphological mapping and analysis of the superficial hydrographic network are fundamental tools to assess the geo-hydrologically critical areas. In this study, the Feltrino Stream and Lanciano area (Adriatic coastal-hills) were i...

This work is based on a drainage basin-scale geomorphological investigation combined with flood modeling. It is focused on the assessment of flood critical areas for the implementation of a geomorphology-based urban Early Warning System (EWS) in the urban area of Lanciano and the Feltrino Stream basin (a minor coastal basin of the Abruzzo hills, Ce...

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is the defining global health and socioeconomic crisis of our time and represents the greatest challenge faced by the world since the end of the Second World War. The academic literature indicates that climatic features, specifically the temperature and absolute humidity, are very important factors a...

This work presents the geomorphology of the Anversa degli Abruzzi badlands (also called calanchi, a typical italian landform) area, located in the Abruzzo Region (Central Apennines, Italy). The map is the result of morphometric and geomorphological analyses, performed at the badland scale, and incorporates three main sections including orography an...

This work presents the geomorphology of the Anversa degli Abruzzi badlands (also called calanchi, a typical italian landform) area, located in the Abruzzo Region (Central Apennines, Italy). The map is the result of morphometric and geomorphological analyses, performed at the badland scale, and incorporates three main sections including orography an...

This paper is the outcome of the 1st Summer School on Geomorphology, Ecology, and Marine Biology in insular environments, focused on the advanced and multidisciplinary methods for the scientific investigation of marine coastal areas. It was held at Tremiti Islands, a significant laboratory for geomorphological, biological, and ecological studies be...

The purpose of this research is to estimate the rockfall and debris flow hazard assessment of the SW escarpment of the Montagna del Morrone (Abruzzo, Central Italy). The study investigated the geomorphology of the escarpment, focusing on the type and distribution of the present landforms. Particular attention was devoted to the slope gravity landfo...

This work presents a tectonic geomorphology analysis of a river bend in the middle Tavo River valley, in the piedmont area of the NE Apennines (Abruzzo Region), between the eastern slope of the chain (Gran Sasso Massif) and the Adriatic coast. The main map (1:15,000 scale) was obtained through a morphometric, geological, and geomorphological analys...

This work presents a tectonic geomorphology analysis of a river bend in the middle Tavo River valley, in the piedmont area of the NE Apennines (Abruzzo Region), between the eastern slope of the chain (Gran Sasso Massif) and the Adriatic coast. The main map (1:15,000 scale) was obtained through a morphometric, geological, and geomorphological analys...

This work deals with the landslides affecting the area surrounding the village of San Martino sulla Marrucina and involving the neighboring municipalities of Casacanditella and Filetto. The geological and geomorphological settings of this area are being discussed. The enclosed maps have been realized following a multidisciplinary approach, based on...

Geological and geomorphological analysis of a complex landslides system: the case of San Martino sulla Marruccina (Abruzzo, Central Italy) The map have been realized following a multidisciplinary approach, based on morphometric, geological, and geomorphological analyses and supported by air-photo interpretation, dendrochronology, and satellite SAR...

This work is focused on the landslide susceptibility assessment, applied to Mauritius Island. The study area is a volcanic island located in the western part of the Indian Ocean and it is characterized by a plateau-like morphology interrupted by three rugged mountain areas. The island is severely affected by geo-hydrological hazards, generally trig...

Geomorphological evolution, erosion and retreat processes that affect the rocky coasts of the mid-western Adriatic Sea (Abruzzo, Central Italy) are the subject of this research. This coastal sector, one of the few examples of clastic soft rock coasts in the Mediterranean Sea, is characterized by active, inactive and paleo cliffs, as well as coastal...

The Geological tourist map of the Mount Serrone fault Geosite (Gioia dei Marsi, Italy) has been realized for describing, in an educational perspective, the surface expression of one of the main active faults of the Central Apennines, connected with the 1915 Fucino earthquake (magnitude 7, historically, one of the strongest in Italy). The Central Ap...

This research aims to highlight the importance of adopting a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding the factors controlling large rock avalanches using the Scanno landslide, Italy, as a case study. The study area is the Mount Genzana, Abruzzi Central Apennines, characterized by the regional Difesa-Mount Genzana-Vallone delle Masserie fault zo...

The outstanding cultural heritage of Italy is intimately related to the landscape and its long-lasting history. Besides major cities, famous localities, and park areas, several minor places and areas hide important features that allow the enhancing of inner-mountain and hilly areas as well as local natural reserves. This enhancement is supported by...

This work focused on a post-wildfire landslide hazard assessment, applied to the 2017 Montagna del Morrone fire. This wildfire increased the possibility of landslides triggering, as confirmed by the occurrence of a debris flow, triggered by an intense, short duration rainfall event in August 2018. The study area was investigated through a detailed...

This work presents the morphotectonic map of the Tasso Stream-Sagittario River valley, located in the Central Abruzzo area (Marsica region), in one of the areas of highest average elevation in the Apennines chain between two main intermontane basins (i.e. the Sulmona basin and Fucino basin). It is bounded by one of the main drainage divides of Cent...

We investigated the role of the morphostructural setting and seismic and meteorological factors in the development of landslides in the piedmont of the Abruzzo Apennines. In February 2017, following a heavy snow precipitation event and a moderate seismic sequence (at the end of the Central Italy 2016–2017 seismic crisis), several landslides affecte...

Soil erosion induced by heavy rainfall deeply affects landscape changes and human activities. It depends on rainfall distribution (e.g., intensity, duration, cumulative per event) and is controlled by the interactions between lithology, orography, hydrography, land use, and vegetation. The Abruzzo piedmont coastal hilly area has been affected by se...

This work analyzes the role of paleo-drainage network, morphotectonics, and surface processes in landscape evolution in a sector of the transition zone between the chain and the piedmont area of Central Apennines. Particularly, it focuses on the Verde Stream, a tributary of the middle Sangro River valley, which flows in the southeastern Abruzzo are...

Scaricate l'articolo qui per 50 giorni: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1XqmO_,Oh6mxbq We present the first detailed overall study on the rock coasts in the central Adriatic Sea (Abruzzo, Italy), which is one of the few cases of a coast with clastic soft rocks in the entire Mediterranean area. The coast is composed of cliffs with small beaches, coa...

EXTENDED ABSTRACT In this work the results of an integrated geomorphological analysis of a complex landslide in Montebello sul Sangro (Abruzzo, Central Italy) are reported. The study is based on a new morphometric analysis of the drainage network, a multi-temporal geomorphological investigation and a numerical landslide modelling. The multi-tempora...

The book deals with the most striking landscapes and landforms of Italy. Attention is given to landform diversity and landscape evolution through time which has been controlled by very diverse geological conditions and dramatic climate changes that have characterized the Italian peninsula and islands since the end of the last glaciation. In additio...

The archipelago of the Tremiti Islands, situated in the centre of the Adriatic Sea, is considered, nationally and internationally, a very important geological and geomorphological laboratory, rich in Cenozoic stratigraphic, tectonic and, recently, geomorphological studies. Despite the small size of the islands, the present landscape of the Tremiti...

Terminillo, Gran Sasso and Majella , the highest mountains of the Central Apennines , are spectacular landmarks showing outstanding geological and geomorphological variability and complexity. Geological features are related to a Neogene NE-verging thrust belt; geomorphological features are related to the superimposition over time of structural, slo...

The most recent research studies into the long-term landscape evolution of the Abruzzo area, carried out over the last twenty years at the “G. d’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara, are based on an integrated approach incorporating structural geology and geomorphology and, in particular, the geomorphometry of topographic and hydrographic aspects...

Ice retreat and advancement have affected the Svalbard Islands since the Last Glacial Maximum. The area shows a continuous transition, both in space and time, from glacial environments to proglacial, periglacial, and paraglacial ones. Periglacial processes (as well as landslides and slope, fluvial, and coastal processes) are overprinting pre-existi...

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The Geomorphological Field Camp 2014 in the Castel di Sangro-Scontrone area is the result of geological and geomorphological teaching field work activities carried out in Central Italy by a group of 23 students attending the Structural Geomorphology and Applied Geomorphology courses (Master's Degree in Geological Science and Technology of the Unive...

This work presents the first results of an integrated geomorphological analysis of a large earthflow in Montebello sul Sangro (Abruzzo, Central Italy). The study is based on a multitemporal geomorphological investigation supported by the morphometric analysis of the drainage network and numerical landslide modelling. The multitemporal geomorphologi...

This paper presents a geomorphological map of the floodplain at the confluence of the Aventino and Sangro rivers (scale 1:10,000), located across the Adriatic piedmont of the Maiella Massif (Abruzzo Region, Central Italy). This area is in the lower reach of the Sangro–Aventino drainage basin, which in the mid-1900s was affected by the creation of f...

In this work the first results of an integrated geomorphological analysis of a large earth flow in Montebello sul Sangro (Abruzzo, Central Italy) are presented. The study is based on a new morphometric analysis of the drainage network, a multitemporal geomorphological investigation and a numerical landslide modeling. In order to reconstruct the top...

The study presented here evaluates the ground motion amplification effects at the site of San Felice Martire church, a historical construction located at Poggio Picenze (L’Aquila, Italy). To characterize the soil profile at the site of investigation field geological observations, boreholes and geophysical tests from previous campaigns were gathered...

The Central Apennines chain (Central Italy) is an asymmetric NW–SE thrust belt, NE verging, that has developed since the Neogene. The present landscape is made up of alternating calcareous ridges, valleys on pelitic arenaceous bedrock, as well as wide intermontane basins filled by Quaternary continental deposits. The chain is characterised at high...

Ice retreat since the last glaciation has triggered drastic changes in high latitude environments where periglacial processes, as well as landslides and slope and fluvial processes are overprinting pre-existing glacial landforms. Our study focuses on the understanding of the role of bedrock geology, climate, local conditions on the development of...

The seismic event, which hit L’Aquila (Abruzzo, Italy, April 6th, 2009), struck also several villages located in the vicinity. Among them, Arsita (Teramo District) suffered non-negligible damage and was included in the list of the most affected municipalities. After a brief description of the town and its territory, the paper focuses the work entru...

When the seismic waves travel from the bedrock to the ground surface a seismic amplification can occur due to the local conditions at a specific site. Lithostratigraphic amplification is typically evaluated using deterministic analyses, which do not allow assessing the uncertainty associated with the computed ground motion due to the aleatory natur...

This work presents a geomorphological map of the Feltrino Stream basin and minor surrounding coastal basins (scale 1:20,000), located in the south-eastern Abruzzo area (Central Italy), across the Adriatic piedmont of the Maiella massif (Central Apennines). This geomorphological mapping is focused on near-surface deposits and hillslope evolution ana...