Gerardo Pappone

Parthenope University of Naples | Università Parthenope · Department of Science and Technology

The ARGO-USV (Unmanned Surface Vehicle for ARchaeological GeO-application) is a technological project involving a marine drone aimed at devising an innovative methodology for marine geological and geomorphological investigations in shallow areas, usually considered critical areas to be investigated, with the help of traditional vessels. The methodo...

This research proposes a new geostatistical approach for the GIS-aided reconstruction of environmental changes related to sea-level oscillations, applied to the Cilento coastal sector between the mouth of Solofrone River and Ogliastro Marina, located along the Tyrrhenian coast of Southern Italy. As the area can be considered tectonically stabl...

Campi Flegrei volcanic active system is an example of a coastal sector scattered with numerous emerged and submerged archaeological remains testifying the ancient coastal conformation. The aim of this research is to obtain an extensive GIS-based mapping of the ancient Roman coastal landscape by using data from direct geoarchaeological surveys...

Campi Flegrei is one of the widest and most dangerous active volcanic complexes in the Mediterranean basin, known to be affected by continuous and sudden vertical ground movements (bradyseismic crisis) that have characterized the post-calderic volcanic activity since the Late Pleistocene and particularly during the Roman period. Despite the intense...

Campi Flegrei, located within the Gulf of Pozzuoli (SW Italy), is one of the most active volcanic districts of the Mediterranean basin and is characterized by sudden vertical ground movements that have locally exacerbated the glacial-hydro-isostatic sea-level rise since the late Pleistocene. In this research, a geoarchaeological study of the coasta...

The island of Procida (Gulf of Naples, Italy) is a site of considerable importance from a historical, cultural, and landscape point of view. The island is located along a volcanic active area in the mid-Tyrrhenian and owes its formation to several explosive eruptions started more than 70 ka BP. Presently, the entire perimeter of the island is borde...

In this research, the morpho-evolutive trend of sea cliffs placed in the volcanic island of Procida was investigated. The entire perimeter of the island is bordered by cliffs, which in some cases are connected to narrow shore platforms sloping slightly towards the sea. The presence of different orders of submerged paleo-shore platforms suggests dif...

This study aims to reconstruct the coastal response of Procida Island to relative sea-level rise since the mid-Holocene, by analysing the submerged features of the coast. Procida Island belongs to the insular part of the Campi Flegrei (CF) volcanic area and owes its formation to several explosive eruptions related to the CF volcanic activity starte...

The mid-Tyrrhenian coast is the most complex volcano-tectonic sector in the Mediterranean basin. Here the vertical ground movements (VGMs) due to the interaction between extensive tectonic processes and volcano-tectonic activities have a significant impact on both past and future sea-level evolution. This area represents the youngest basin of the w...

This research aims to reconstruct the submerged morphologies of the high-coast sectors of Naples discriminating between landforms and anthropogenic structures, by analysing the high-resolution data of a multibeam survey in a GIS environment. In the case of natural landforms, a signal analysis was performed to characterize the seabed and discern bet...

This study aims to present new additional data regarding the relative sea-level (RSL) changes and the vertical ground movements (VGM) occurred in Campi Flegrei caldera since the Early Roman period (3rd century BC), commenting also on the accompanying changes of the coastal landscape and its implications in terms of human adaptation. The study area...

Aim of this work is to implement an environment object detection system for a marine drone. A Deep Learning based model for object detection is embedded on ARGO drone equipped with geophysical sensors and several on-board cameras. The marine drone, developed at iMTG laboratory in partnership with NEPTUN-IA laboratory, was designed to obtain high-re...

Two boreholes, both about 16 m-deep, have been drilled in the Garigliano Plain, a coastal-alluvial plain located at the boundary between southern Latium and northern Campania, Italy. The drill holes have been planned and carried out in the southern part of the plain, near to the bordering ridge of Mount Massico. The multidisciplinary analyses perfo...

The Volturno alluvial-coastal plain is a relevant feature of the Tyrrhenian side of southern Italy. Its plan-view squared shape is due to Pliocene-Quaternary block-faulting of the western flank of the south-Apennines chain. On the basis of the stratigraphic analysis of almost 700 borehole logs and new geomorphological survey, an accurate paleoenvir...

This paper is aimed at presenting an innovation-technology based approach for reconstructing underwater paleo-landscapes and related paleo-sea levels in coastal archaeological sites of great cultural value. Due to the low operational depth of the investigated area (between −0.5 and −5 m) an Unmanned Vessel Surface was used. It is equipped with inst...

This research aims to present new data regarding the relative sea-level variations and related morpho-evolutive trends of Naples coast since the mid-Holocene, by interpreting several geomorphological and historical elements. The geomorphological analysis, which was applied to the emerged and submerged sector between Chiaia plain and Pizzofalcone pr...

The map is aimed at illustrating the relationships between landscape evolution and human occupation in the Isernia basin since the Middle Pleistocene. We carried out a detail scale geological - geomorphological investigation integrated with archaeological data. Overall data suggest enhanced landscape modification related to the long-term evolution...

The map is aimed at illustrating the relationships between landscape evolution and human occupation in the Isernia basin since the Middle Pleistocene. We carried out a detail scale geological–geomorphological investigation integrated with archaeological data. Overall data suggest enhanced landscape modification related to the long-term evolution of...

This research aims at the 3D reconstruction of a Roman fish tank (piscina) located inside the archaeological area of Portus Julius (Gulf of Pozzuoli, Naples) and it is part of a wider research finalized to reconstruct the amount of the vertical ground movements (VGM) occurred during historical times in the Gulf of Pozzuoli. The ancient piscina is r...

This research aims to evaluate the amount of vertical ground movements during Roman times inside the archaeological area of Portus Julius (Gulf of Pozzuoli) using high-precision surveys on the most reliable archaeological sea-level markers. Measuring the submersion of ancient floors, structural elements belonging to a former fish tank, and several...

The study area is located along the western border of the Campi Flegrei (CF) caldera, occupied since the first Greek colonization of southern Italy (800 BC), and that still preserves archaeological traces of past coastal conformations. The study aims to present new additional data regarding the RSL position during the 1st century BC, considering al...

Many coastlines around the world are subsiding, often due to tectonic causes. In tectonically active areas, the exploitation of natural resources has caused acceleration of subsidence rates. In these cases, it is difficult to separate the many different components of the subsidence process. We try to fill this gap, using both remote sensing data an...

RIASSUNTO.-È stato condotto un rilievo sismico ad alta risoluzione per l'identificazione e la mappatura della geometria della successione stratigrafica presente al di sotto dei fondali marini antistante il Monte Massico, lungo il litorale di Mondragone. Per uno studio preliminare, finalizzato alla calibrazione ed alla taratura della metodologia ado...

In this paper, we present the results of a multidisciplinary study aimed to reconstruct the Roman coastal landscape between Pizzofalcone hill and Megaris islet-the area of the ancient Parthenope, the first settlement along the Naples coast. This coastal sector was surveyed by a team of specialized divers (archaeologists and geomorphologists) and by...

This paper shows an interesting case of coastal landscape reconstruction by using innovative marine robotic instrumentation, applied to an archaeological key-site in the Campi Flegrei (Italy), one of the more inhabited areas in the Mediterranean during the Roman period. This active volcanic area is world famous for the ancient coastal cities of Bai...

The aim of this paper was to implement an integrated method for high-resolution surveys by using a robotics technology. In order to reconstruct underwater landscapes of high cultural value, geophysical and photogrammetric sensors were integrated on-board of an USV allowing a precise mapping of the seabed morphology as well as a detailed three-dimen...

The Volturno alluvial-coastal plain is a relevant feature of the Tyrrhenian side of southern Italy. Its plan-view squared shape is due to Pliocene-Quaternary block-faulting of the western flank of the chain. The Quaternary infill of the Volturno plain has been here studied by means of well data. An asymmetrical shape of its ancient morphology – wit...

Puteoli coastal sector is located in the Campi Flegrei volcanic area, along the Mediterranean coasts. This sector is rich in archaeological remains here used as sea-level markers useful to reconstruct the vertical ground movements affecting the CF area. Marine surveys by means of an Unmanned Surface Vessel equipped with geophysical instruments were...

The Volturno alluvial-coastal plain is a relevant feature of the Tyrrhenian side of southern Italy. Its plan-view squared shape is due to Pliocene-Quaternary block-faulting of the western flank of the chain. The Quaternary infill of the Volturno plain has been here studied by means of well data. An asymmetrical shape of its ancient morphology - wit...

This paper presents the results of the geological and geomorphological investigation carried out during the first level seismic microzonation project in the Isernia Province territory. The study area falls in one of the most seismically active areas of the Apennine chain and it has been struck, in historical times, by destructive earthquakes that c...

Puteoli coastal sector is located in the Campi Flegrei volcanic area, along the Mediterranean coasts. This sector is rich in archaeological remains here used as sea-level markers useful to reconstruct the vertical ground movements affecting the CF area. Ma-rine surveys by means of an Unmanned Surface Vessel equipped with geophysical instruments wer...

The Posillipo promontory is an elongated tufaceous ridge located on the southern periphery of the Campi Flegrei active volcanic complex that hosts several underwater archaeological structures dated mostly in the 1st century BC and the Imperial age. The so-called Palazzo degli Spiriti, built in the 1st century BC along the coast of the Posillipo hil...

The mapping of landforms in the Gulf of Naples is fundamental to understanding the recent evolution of this perithyrrenian basin controlled by several systems of Quaternary faults and characterised by the presence of the Campi Flegrei and Somma Vesuvius volcanoes. In this paper a 1:85,000 map of the recent evolution of the Gulf of Naples coasts is...

The southwestern periphery of Naples is dominated by the Posillipo promontory, an elongated tuffaceous ridge belonging to Campi Flegrei active volcanic complex (CF). The central caldera of CF is well-known for offering a rich geoarchaeological record of the vertical ground movements occurred since Roman times, as the case of the Portus Julius ruins...

The coastal sector of the Sele River plain in southern Italy shows a complex subsidence pattern, as testified by PS-InSar data related to the last twenty years (Fig.1). The evaluation of rates and causes of the vertical movements must be taken in great consideration because those positive or negative motions can amplify or delete the effects of sea...

A multidisciplinary methodology, integrating stratigraphic, geomorphological and structural data, combined with GIS-aided analysis and PS-InSAR interferometric data, was applied to characterize the relationships between ground deformations and the stratigraphic and the morphostructural setting of the Venafro intermontane basin. This basin is a morp...

This paper describes the results of a multidisciplinary study of four geoarchaeological sites on the Sorrento Peninsula coast (Italy) where the submerged ruins of Roman buildings have enabled the ancient position of both the sea level and the coastline to be reconstructed. The results highlight that the sea level in Roman times, deduced from the su...

The coasts of the Gulf of Naples has been affected by significant changes since the Roman period that can be ascribed to several factors. These coastal changes have depended not only by vertical ground movements and by the eustatic sea level rise but, in this case, also by the effects of Plinian Vesuvius eruption of 79 AD that particularly influenc...

Interdisciplinary studies of the last years highlight that the Italian coasts are significantly subject to retreat and to inundation, by sea ingression due to natural and anthropic causes. In this study, the effects of future relative sea level have been evaluated for the Volturno River Plain, one of the widest plain in southern Italy. The plain is...

Introduzione L'analisi sismo-stratigrafica di profili sismici monocanale, in assenza di indagini dirette, non da informazioni certe sulla natura delle unità individuate, per cui spesso risente della soggettività interpretativa. In questo lavoro si descrive la realizzazione di un database di firme (indici di caratterizzazione) di unità sismiche per...

The Ofanto basin is a Pliocene–Pleistocene thrust-top basin that formed with an unusual east–west orientation along the frontal part of the Southern Apennine Allochthon during the latest stages of tectonic transport. Its tectonic and sedimentary evolution was studied integrating field surveys, biostratigraphic analyses and the interpretation of a l...

This paper describe the results of a PHD multidisciplinary research on four geo-archaeo-sites along the Sorrento Peninsula coast. Those sites host ruins of Roman villas whose study has allowed reconstructing the ancient position of both the sea level and the coastline. Moreover, other change of the coastal landscape were reconstructed and interpret...

We investigated the normal fault system outcropping along the northern slope of the Matese Mts. (Molise). This sector, belonging to the Bojano basin, experienced an extensional tectonics starting from the Middle Pleistocene (Di Bucci et al., 2005; Amato et al., 2014). The seismogenic features of the fault system (N-MFS in Galli and Galadini, 2003)...

Interdisciplinary researches of the last years highlight that the Italian coasts are significantly subject to retreat and inundation by sea ingression, due to natural and anthropic forces. In this study, the effects of possible future relative sea-level rise in one of the widest plain in the southern Italy have been evaluated. The Volturno River Pl...

An integrated morpho-stratigraphic approach has been used to reconstruct the Quaternary history of the Boiano basin, the largest tectonic depression of the Molise Apennine (Italy). Lacustrine, marshy and fluvial environments alternate all along the investigated infilling succession as a response to tectonic subsidence, volcaniclastic inputs and cli...

Il lavoro presenta i primi risultati di uno studio multidisciplinare finalizzato alla caratterizzazione delle relazioni esistenti tra il campo di deformazione del suolo nell'area della Piana di Venafro (Isernia, Molise) ed il suo assetto stratigrafico e morfo strutturale. Lo studio è basato sul confronto dei dati relativi alle velocità medie annue...

A large number of exposed scars, originated by multievent sediment failures, have been identified on the southern flank of a deep submarine valley in Salerno Bay (Southern Tyrrhenian Sea), between depths of 300 and 700 m. A 200 km2 complex landslide lies across a 17 km-long SW-NE trending anticline, which is exposed 40 m above the seafloor of the c...

The Ofanto basin is a Pliocene–Pleistocene thrust-top basin that formed with an unusual east–west orientation along the frontal part of the Southern Apennine Allochthon during the latest stages of tectonic transport. Its tectonic and sedimentary evolution was studied integrating field surveys, biostratigraphic analyses and the interpretation of a l...

An integrated geomorphological, geological–structural and stratigraphic approach was applied to the Sessano intra-montane basin (Molise, Central-Southern Apennines) to understand the Quaternary environmental and sedimentary evolution of the basin and the surrounding areas. The morpho-evolutionary and sedimentary changes were mainly controlled by te...

In order to assess the effects of possible future sea-level rise in the Sele plain, the lowlands prone to inundation and the rate of coastal erosion in the years 2050 and 2100 have been discussed and some conclu- sions are here proposed. The sea level at these two dates was calculated as the combination of three components: response of Italian coas...

A biostratigraphic study was carried out on four sections of the Miocene Tufillo and Faeto Formations (Southern Apennines). The sediments analyzed were referred to the late Burdigalian -early Tortonian on the basis of planktonic foraminifers (MMi2b Subzone through the MMi8 Zone) and calcareous nannofossils (MNN3b Zone through the MNN7 Zone), Almost...

Several boreholes were studied in detail through different analytical methods in order to highlight the Holocene relative sea-level changes and the paleogeographical evolution of the southern sector of the Sele river coastal plain (Tyrrhenian Sea, southern Italy). Stratigraphic and paleontological analyses identified a transition from floodplain st...

The ancient Samnitic and Roman towns of Bovianum, located at the base of the northern slope of the Matese Mountains and partially extending within one of the most depressed sectors of the Boiano intramontane basin, were strongly influenced by historical palaeoenvironmental changes mainly due to climatic and man-induced variations and subordinately...

In the Mediterranean, the coastal population was estimated at 146 million in 1990 and the urban coastal population alone is projected to rise to 176 million by 2025, with an addition of 350 million of tourists per year. In coastal zones, forecasting shoreline location and changes in time is a basic tool for decisional making regarding land manageme...

The present paper deals with the stratigraphic and biostratigraphic study of the middle-late Miocene thrust-top basin deposits of the San Bartolomeo Flysch, exposed north of Matese mountains and analysed during the geological survey of the sheet N° 405 Campobasso of the new Geological Map of Italy, 1:50.000 scale. The integrated study of calcareous...

The late Quaternary evolution of the Sele River coastal plain (Salerno Gulf, southern Italy) was investigated through integrated stratigraphical, chronological and palaeoecological analyses. The main environmental changes were ascribed to glacio-eustatic variations leading to rapid ingressions alternating with coastal progradations. The marked mari...

The Sele river plain is located along the western Tyrrhenian margin of the southern Apennine Chain and is confined seaward by a straight sandy coast formed during the Last Interglacial and the Holocene. The coastal plain is characterised by beach-dune ridges which interfinger landwards with lagoon and fluvio-palustrine deposits. This belt, which pr...