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In Piemonte (north-western Italy), an intense extraction activity of ornamental stones widely used for historical buildings, developed throughout centuries. This is due to the wide geodiversity of the region, characterised by mostly metamorphic and magmatic rocks in the Western Alps and by terrigenous and carbonate sedimentary rocks in the Alps-Ape...
In December 2019 a large collapse affected the Torrione Sucai, a rocky structure located on the North Eastern slope of Mt. Viso (Italy) at about 3100 m a.s.l. Mt Viso has been included in the UNESCO World Heritage Sites since 2013 as a biosphere reserve. Therefore, hazard and risk assessment is a priority for the protection of people and the enviro...
A geodatabase on the ornamental and dimension stones of Piemonte has been implemented referring to a Geo-Lithological Map recently published (Barale et al., 2020). The database is grounded on the Geological Map of Piemonte (Piana et al., 2017) and includes several information such as the scientific and commercial name of stones, the lithological va...
La conoscenza geologica di un territorio è considerata a livello comunitario tra gli elementi indispensabili per raggiungere gli obiettivi di medio-lungo periodo della transizione ecologica quali ad esempio quelli evidenziati dal Green Deal Europeo, con particolare riferimento alla ricerca delle materie prime critiche, alla disponibilità di fonti e...
An interdisciplinary study has been adopted to investigate the upper Maira Valley (Western Alps, Italy). A geological map of an unmapped area, of about 12 km², at scale 1:10.000, has been realized. The combination of field surveys, GIS database creation, aerial photo observation, local archival data consultation, geo-structural analysis and drillho...
The landscape evolution of the U-shaped Maira Valley was mainly led by glacial dynamics during Pleistocene. The Holocene linear fluvial erosion creates higher steepness slopes in a narrow valley in which gravitational phenomena involves buildings and facilities of Acceglio municipality (Piedmont, Italy). A geomorphological survey in an unmapped are...
The Piemonte Geological Map is the graphical layout of a GIS Map and Geodatabase designed to represent the Alps-Apennines orogenic system from latest Cretaceous to Quaternary. The map was mostly compiled using available data (starting from historical maps of the beginning of the twentieth century to the most recent ones), which were in some cases r...
The geological map of Piemonte Region (Italy) is a graphic representation of the geology of the region, grounded on a large geodatabase, that can be also browsed as an interactive scalable map (GeoPiemonte Map) using a WebGIS application. The Map, produced at 1:250,000 scale, is the first original release of the ‘GeoPiemonte Map’ project. The geolo...
The Geodatabase of the Piemonte Geological Map was designed in a way suitable for linking the geological knowledge of the geological domain at hand to more general levels of knowledge represented in some Earth science ontologies and namely in a dedicated ontology (OntoGeonous). The paper describes how the two different knowledge levels are assimila...
Three-dimensional (3D) subsurface modelling and visualization of seven regional unconformity-bounded stratigraphic units, (synthems) of the Messinian-Quaternary succession of the Po Plain Basin and Savigliano-Alessandria Basin are here described. 3D model is developed using the EnterVol Ctech® software environment, grounding on information stored i...
The n. 194 “Acqui Terme” sheet of the Geological Map of Italy is located in the “Alto Monferrato” geographical region, that corresponds to the south-eastern sector of the geological domain known as Tertiary Piedmont Basin (TPB). The TPB consists of a sedimentary succession of mainly terrigenous deposits that unconformably overlies non-metamorphic L...
The OntoGeonous initiative has the goal of modeling a number of interconnected computational ontologies of geological concepts in order to exploit (i) the expressive power of ontological systems to merge several geological concepts (ii) the reasoning capabilities of the ontological systems to check the consistency of the currently existing knowledg...
Unofficial version of the Explanatory Notes of the 194 Acqui Terme sheet (2015) of the Geological Map of Italy, 1:50,000 scale. The official version can be found online on ISPRA web site
Collection and sharing of geoheritage information are nowadays enhanced by using digital tools and IT (Information Technology) applications that allow homogeneous storing of data, building of sharable databases, and transfer of knowledge between experts and communities. In the frame of the PROGEO-Piemonte project (PROactive management of GEOlogical...
In this paper we describe a procedure for the study and management of rockfall affected areas. During the MASSA project, we defined a procedure for the management of the first emergency phase after the gravitational phenomenon, describing what it could be done for a first analysis and monitoring of the instable areas. In particular, the developed m...
This work combines, at different scales, field mapping, detailed structural analysis, satellite images (Landsat TM and ASTER) and aerial photos interpretation for the study of the fault network affecting the Lower Lanzo Valley (Turin), a key-area of the inner Western Alps bordered by two major post-Oligocene tectonic discontinuities: the Canavese L...
Iso-Kinematic maps have been derived from spatial statistics (Hot Spot and geostatistical analysis) of Permanent Scatterers Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PS-InSAR) data, and compared with geological, geomorphological, seismological and GPS data in order to analyse the current tectonics and the crustal mobility, at the boundary between t...
Prefazione/Preface
Si sta sempre più diffondendo una innovativa cultura ambientale e una crescente consapevolezza dell’importanza
della tutela delle risorse e della prevenzione da ulteriori impatti ambientali.
Uno sviluppo realmente sostenibile può essere conseguito e garantito solo attraverso una profonda conoscenza
della situazione locale e regio...
SAR interferometry based on Permanent Scatterers (PS-InSARTM) is used here to study the present crustal mobility of a large area of NW Italy, in the Piemonte region.
Thirty-eight satellite scenes (ERS SAR), taken from May 1992 to January 2001, were analysed for detecting more than 2 million PS on the study area. Continuous velocity surface maps (Is...
The architecture of the fault network and the late- to post-metamorphic structural evolution in the internal Cottian Alps have been studied by an integrated approach combining morphostructural analysis, field mapping and detailed mesostructural analysis between the Susa and Pel lice Valleys. Available apatite fission track data indicate that this s...
The SAR interferometer technique allows detecting small movements of the
ground surface. One of the most effective is the Permanent Scatters
(PS-InSAR) technique proposed by Ferretti et al., 2001. The PS are
points on the ground (buildings, rocks, etc.) that show high long-term
phase coherence, as well as strong and stable backscatter level through...
The first results of PS-InSARTM interferometric data analysis applied to neotectonic studies on a wide area of the middle southern Piemonte are showed in this paper; the area is located on a significant geodynamic context at the junction between Alps-Apennines basements. The tectonic setting of this areas has been compared to isokinematic maps obta...
Stereo and panchromatic Spot HRV and GTC ERS-2 SAR images were used to study the correspondence between the lineament systems and geological structures of hills composed of marly-arenaceous sediments with rich vegetation and extensive human activities, namely the Monferrato and Langhe domains (north-west Italy). In this context, a large number of l...
This work describes a conceptual and technical approach used to obtain a satisfactory description, representation and geometrical simulation of the fracture network of a poly-deformed blocky rock mass, characterized by tectonically coupled metamorphic and sedimentary rock units in the Ligurian Alps (Italy). The geological knowledge of the study are...
Statistic distribution of remote sensed lineament intersections, observed on satellite images (ERS-2SAR and Spor HRV), and landslides of the Langhe (south Piemonte, NW Italy) has been compared. In this work, the lineaments have been considered as geological discontinuities, in order to simulate fracture networks, in view of their geometrical simila...
