Hypsometry and relief analysis of the southern termination of the Calabrian arc, NE-Sicily (southern Italy)

Pavano, Francesco; Catalano, Stefano; Romagnoli, Gino; Tortorici, Giuseppe

doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2017.12.029

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“…Hypsometric integral (HI) Hypsometric Integral (HI) is a function of dissection of the topography, and it provides an efficient tool to assess interactions existing between tectonic uplift, climate, lithology, and erosion (Pavano, Catalano, Romagnoli, & Tortorici, 2018). The WEB has HI value of 0.64, where it varies from 0.46 for SW 14 to 0.77 for SW 6.…”

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Morphometric analysis and prioritisation of watersheds for flood risk management in Wadi Easal Basin (WEB), Jordan, using geospatial technologies

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Awawdeh

Al‐Hantouli

2021

J Flood Risk Management

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Morphometric analysis and sub‐watersheds prioritisation were carried out for the Wadi Easal Basin, Jordan, which is characterised by a high topographic diversity. The total ranking method was applied to prioritise the sub‐watersheds in terms of susceptibility to flash flood. Results of morphometric analysis revealed that the study area is a fifth order drainage system with a dendritic drainage pattern and elongated shape. Prioritisation results showed that about 71% (15 out of 21 sub‐watersheds) of sub‐watersheds have high‐very high susceptibility to flooding, which forms about 64% of the total area of the basin. The main underlying morphometric parameters behind this are the high drainage density, stream frequency, high basin relief, basin slope, ruggedness number, and circulatory ratio, and the low value of basin shape. Overall, the basin has a rugged topography with steep slopes and high relief. Since the basin is ungauged, and no information about its past hydrological behaviour is present, the results of this study can be used as guidance for competent authorities to initialize flood mitigation or artificial groundwater recharge measures.

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Morphometric analysis and prioritisation of watersheds for flood risk management in Wadi Easal Basin (WEB), Jordan, using geospatial technologies

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Awawdeh

Al‐Hantouli

2021

J Flood Risk Management

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“…Geophysical (Bianchi et al, 1987;R. Catalano et al, 2013;Chironi et al, 2000;Ferri et al, 2005;Giustiniani et al, 2018) and geodetic data (e.g., Mastrolembo Ventura et al, 2014;Figures 1c and 1d) show that the main lithospheric structural architecture of the SFTB is characterized by E-W-to ENE-WSW-oriented, regional, oblique dextral thrust ramps (Catalano, Pavano, et al, 2018;Ghisetti & Vezzani, 1984). In northern Sicily, the PMNPM crudely corresponds to the axial zone of the thrust-ramp anticlines related to the Kumeta-Alcantara Line (Ghisetti & Vezzani, 1984;Gueguen et al, 2002;Renda et al, 2000;Figure 1a).…”

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A Geomorphic Examination of the Calabrian Forearc Translation

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Gallen

2021

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The tectonic setting of the Mediterranean basin features several convergent plate boundaries with small, highly arcuate subduction zones. Slabs in several of these subduction zones are rapidly rolling back (e.g., Doglioni, 1993), resulting in diverse kinematics of upper plate deformation, including paired compression and extensional fronts in overlying forearcs (Elter et al., 1975). The Calabrian Peninsula in southern Italy represents one such forearc where only the extensional domain is exposed above sea level today (D' Agostino et al., 2011;Tortorici et al., 1995). Calabria is widely thought to have rifted away from Sardinia 6 Ma, and rapidly translated eastward as the leading edge of a wave of the backarc extension that opened the

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“…Basic morphometric parameters of the main basins (such as area, perimeter, relief, length) were obtained from the DEM analysis. Several methods have been proposed to perform morphometric analysis, such as techniques based on the DEM's cells (e.g., neighborhood tools) or based on grids with uniformly sized square windows [10,112,113]. Even if these kinds of approaches allowed for avoiding any possible effect related to the shape and size of the sampling area, they could depend on the scale of analysis.…”

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“…Drainage networks evolve as dynamical systems, adjusting themselves in response to changes in the landscape, generally associated with tectonic activity [1,2]. Attempts to deduce tectonic information from landscape analyses have been performed for decades, e.g., [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10], mostly concerning the quantitative measurement of the landscape through the calculation of geomorphic indexes using topographic maps or Digital Elevation Models (DEMs), aerial photographs or satellite imagery, and fieldwork. Moreover, in recent times, interactions between tectonics and drainage networks were widely investigated in natural examples [5,[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19], experimental modeling [20][21][22][23][24][25], and/or numerical modeling [26][27][28][29], and the rapid development of GIS techniques offered powerful and efficient tools to compute, calculate, and analyze geomorphic indexes across different geographical environments and scales of investigation, e.g., [30][31][32][33][34][35].…”

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Morphoneotectonics of the Abruzzo Periadriatic Area (Central Italy): Morphometric Analysis and Morphological Evidence of Tectonics Features

2021

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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 morphometric analysis, structural geomorphological field mapping, and detailed analysis of fluvial terraces. Geomorphic indexes and markers (e.g., Irta, SL index, ksn, and knickpoints) were used in this study to detect the response of landscapes to drainage systems’ unsteadiness and tectonic deformation processes, possibly induced by the ongoing activity of the buried tectonic structures. Furthermore, the investigation of morphological field evidence of tectonics, integrated with the analysis of fluvial terraces’ spatial and temporal arrangement, was performed to assign relative, geomorphologically-based, age constraints of the landscape evolution. The resulting data allowed us to define domains affected by different morphostructural and morphoneotectonic processes, related to the impact and ongoing activity of the five detected families of structural elements (S1, F1, F2, F3, and F4), mainly characterized by compressive, extensional, and transtensive kinematics. Finally, this study could represent a scientific basis for integrating morphometric, fluvial, and tectonic geomorphology analysis to better define the main phases of the landscape evolution and the impact of morphoneotectonic processes on fluvial environments in uplifting piedmont areas.

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Hypsometry and relief analysis of the southern termination of the Calabrian arc, NE-Sicily (southern Italy)

Cited by 21 publications

References 55 publications

Morphometric analysis and prioritisation of watersheds for flood risk management in Wadi Easal Basin (WEB), Jordan, using geospatial technologies

Morphometric analysis and prioritisation of watersheds for flood risk management in Wadi Easal Basin (WEB), Jordan, using geospatial technologies

A Geomorphic Examination of the Calabrian Forearc Translation

Morphoneotectonics of the Abruzzo Periadriatic Area (Central Italy): Morphometric Analysis and Morphological Evidence of Tectonics Features

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