Fabrizio Benvenuto’s scientific contributions

... In the following years, research on the hypogenic caves extended to new localities in western Umbria (Menichetti h closed valley with karstic drainage; i CO 2 -rich vent; j CO 2 -rich spring; k Apennines water divide; l geothermal anomaly-thick dotted line represents 100 mW/m 2011), Tuscany (Montecchio cave, Menichetti 2009;Piccini et al. 2015), Latium (Galdenzi 2003), Campania (Capo Palinuro, Forti and Mocchiuti 2004), and outside the Apennines in Sicily (Vattano et al. 2013;De Waele et al. 2016) and Sardinia (De Waele et al. 2013). New research also re-examined evidence for speleogenesis in the previously studied Monte Cucco system (Galdenzi 2004;Menichetti et al. 2008), Acquasanta Terme caves (Menichetti 2008;Galdenzi et al. 2010), and the Frasassi Caves (Galdenzi et al. , 2008Galdenzi 2012;Galdenzi and Campagnoli 2015). ...

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Hypogenic Caves in the Apennine Mountains (Italy)

... Bedrock morphologies were (1) investigated, documented, and classified in detail to clarify the genesis of the studied caves and (2) compared with knowledge and data on sulfuric acid caves (e.g., Egemeier, 1981;Hill, 1987Hill, , 1990Palmer & Hill, 2005;Audra, 2008;Audra et al., 2009;Plan et al., 2012;Palmer, 2013Palmer, , 2016Vattano et al., 2013;De Waele et al., 2016;D´Angeli et al., 2019a, b), as well as hypogene caves of successive carbonic and sulfuric acid speleogenesis (e.g., Temovski et al., 2013). ...

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Sulfuric acid speleogenesis and surface landform evolution along the Vienna Basin Transfer Fault: Plavecký Karst, Slovakia