IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/tjomxx/v8y2012i1p74-87.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Geomorphological map of the Tremiti Islands (Puglia, Southern Adriatic Sea, Italy), scale 1:15,000

Author

Listed:
  • Enrico Miccadei
  • Paolo Orrù
  • Tommaso Piacentini
  • Francesco Mascioli
  • Giuseppe Puliga

Abstract

This paper describes the Geomorphological map of the Tremiti Islands (Puglia, Southern Adriatic Sea, Italy), scale 1:15,000. The Tremiti Islands, located north of Gargano promontory's coast, are part of a complex geological area within the Adriatic basin, facing the junction between the central and southern Apennines. This area is well known for Neogenic-Quaternary stratigraphic, tectonic and seismologic aspects and is crucial for the definition of Late Quaternary Adriatic basin evolution. The map is the result of a geomorphological study carried out on the islands and the inner continental shelf around them. This study incorporates: (1) field recognition of Quaternary continental deposits and geomorphological mapping, supported by radiometric dating, focused on the morpho-lithostratigraphic correlation of deposits among the different islands and the recognition of landforms that controlled landscape evolution; (2) bathymetric analysis; (3) geomorphological analysis of data from a side scan sonar survey, focused on the recognition of the main submerged landforms, from the coastline down to about 70 m b.s.l.; and (4) scuba-dive geomorphological survey, for improving analysis of geophysical data with direct observations. The study outlines a complex geological and geomorphologic setting. Despite the small size of the islands, the Quaternary continental succession of the archipelago is characterized by widespread deposits, a result of slope, fluvial and aeolian environments. The landforms of the islands are related to karst, fluvial, marine, and gravitational processes. The inner continental shelf features marine and coastal landforms, but also tectonic, fluvial, karst, and slope landforms. The correlation of the below sea-level geomorphological features with landforms and deposits of above sea-level areas, has provided a contribution to the reconstruction of Late Quaternary landscape and geomorphological evolution, as the result of tectonics, sea-level fluctuations and marine, coastal, and continental geomorphological processes.

Suggested Citation

  • Enrico Miccadei & Paolo Orrù & Tommaso Piacentini & Francesco Mascioli & Giuseppe Puliga, 2012. "Geomorphological map of the Tremiti Islands (Puglia, Southern Adriatic Sea, Italy), scale 1:15,000," Journal of Maps, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 8(1), pages 74-87.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:tjomxx:v:8:y:2012:i:1:p:74-87
    DOI: 10.1080/17445647.2012.668765
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/17445647.2012.668765
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/17445647.2012.668765?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Tommaso Piacentini & Marco Sciarra & Enrico Miccadei & Tullio Urbano, 2015. "Near-surface deposits and hillslope evolution of the Adriatic piedmont of the Central Apennines (Feltrino Stream basin and minor coastal basins, Abruzzo, Italy)," Journal of Maps, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 11(2), pages 299-313, March.
    2. Tullio Urbano & Tommaso Piacentini & Marcello Buccolini, 2017. "Morphotectonics of the Pescara River basin (Central Italy)," Journal of Maps, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 13(2), pages 511-520, November.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:tjomxx:v:8:y:2012:i:1:p:74-87. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/tjom20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.