Geomorphology and Quaternary geology

Research topics:

• • Morphotectonic and relief evolution, coastal geomorphology and marine terraces, karst geomorphology, active tectonics ( Alessandra Ascione, Nicoletta Santangelo, Ettore Valente)
  • Applied geomorphology: analysis of susceptibility to flood processes in foothill areas; geomorphological mapping for land-use planning; identification and enhancement of geological environmental assets: geosites, geomorphosites, and geotourism (Alessandra Ascione, Nicoletta Santangelo, Ettore Valente)
  • Coastal and submarine geomorphology and morphodynamics; Coastal and underwater geoarchaeology; Coastal management and defense; Coastal hazard; Coastal cartography for land use planning; Geomorphology of urban areas; Fractal analysis and deep learning techniques for the classification of terrestrial landforms and Solar System bodies (Carlo Donadio)
  • Geoarchaeology: paleoenvironmental and paleogeographical reconstructions in archaeological contexts; human-environment interaction in recent millennia in southern Italy (Elda Russo Ermolli, Valentino Di Donato, Ettore Valente)
  • Quaternary environmental and oceanographic evolution of the Mediterranean Sea: integrated paleoecological studies (pollen and foraminifera) of marine, transitional, and continental successions; development and application of compositional analysis methodologies aimed at paleoclimatic reconstruction (Elda Russo Ermolli, Valentino Di Donato)

   

Main scientific collaboration:

National and Capodistrian University of Athens – Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment
CEREGE - Université d’Aix-Marseille
CIRCE, Caserta
Département Préhistoire, Museum National Histoire Naturelle, Paris
Dip. di Ingegneria Geotecnica ed ambientale (DIGA), Università di Napoli Federico II
ISMAR-CNR, Napoli
Lehigh University, Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Bethlehem, PA
MARUM, Bremen
Orto botanico di Napoli, Università di Napoli Federico II
Università Roma Tre - Laboratorio di Geochimica
Universitad Politécnica de Madrid
Universitat de Girona - Grup de Recerca en Estadística i Anàlisi de Dades Composicionals
Université de Lausanne - Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics
University of California, Berkeley
University of Patras, Dept. of Geology
Università Parthenope, Napoli

Palaeogeographic sketches showing the main evolutionary stages of the Campania and Sele plains along the Quaternary.

Paleogeographic and paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the S. Eufumia plain during Greek and Roman time

Submerged roman channel and arch

DEM morphometric analysis: rivers longitudinal profiles (Volturno river catchment)

Alluvial fan flooding susceptibility map  (Sala Consilina, SA)