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Gravity instabilities in the Dohrn Canyon (Bay of Naples, Southern Tyrrhenian Sea): potential wave and run-up (tsunami) reconstruction from a fossil submarine landslide

In: Geologica Carpathica, vol. 62, no. 1
Vincenzo Di Fiore - Gemma Aiello - Bruno D’argenio
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Rok, strany: 2011, 55 - 63
Jazyk: eng
Kľúčové slová:
Bay of Naples, tsunamigenic potential, run-up landslide, numerical modelling
O článku:
We discuss a mathematical model for wave and run-up generated submarine landslides in the canyons of the Bay of Naples (Magnaghi-Dohrn canyon system). The morpho-bathymetry and submarine gravity instabilities of such incisions have been investigated through the interpretation of a high resolution DEM. The canyons are located in a sector of the bay where there is a variable interaction of volcanic activity (Phlegrean Fields and Ischia and Procida Islands) with sedimentary processes due to the Sarno-Sebeto rivers. At present the Naples canyon-system is inactive, as is shown by the Holocene sedimentary drapes deposited during the present sea-level highstand, but gravity instabilities occurred in the recent past at the canyons’ heads. In particular the Dohrn Canyon is characterized by a double regressive head, while the Magnaghi Canyon shows a trilobate head, formed by the junction of three main tributary channels and coincident with the retreat of the shelf break around the 140 m isobath. The results of a simulation of failures in the above source areas show that the amplitude of wave run-up, expressed in terms of the sea floor depth percentage, may range up to 2.5 % of the water depth at the sea bottom.
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Di Fiore, V., Aiello, G., D’argenio, B. 2011. Gravity instabilities in the Dohrn Canyon (Bay of Naples, Southern Tyrrhenian Sea): potential wave and run-up (tsunami) reconstruction from a fossil submarine landslide. In Geologica Carpathica, vol. 62, no.1, pp. 55-63. 1335-0552. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10096-011-0005-z

APA:
Di Fiore, V., Aiello, G., D’argenio, B. (2011). Gravity instabilities in the Dohrn Canyon (Bay of Naples, Southern Tyrrhenian Sea): potential wave and run-up (tsunami) reconstruction from a fossil submarine landslide. Geologica Carpathica, 62(1), 55-63. 1335-0552. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10096-011-0005-z
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