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2024-03-29T15:30:28ZStratigraphic, structural and geomorphological features of the Sicilian continental shelf: study cases from Southern Tyrrhenian and Sicily Channel
http://hdl.handle.net/10761/3854
Titolo: Stratigraphic, structural and geomorphological features of the Sicilian continental shelf: study cases from Southern Tyrrhenian and Sicily Channel
Autori: Distefano, Salvatore
Abstract: The Pelagian Archipelago is located in a complex and wide geodynamic system characterized by the occurrence of two independent tectonic processes acting simultaneously: convergence along the Apennine-Maghrebian accretionary wedge and late Miocene-early Pliocene rifting in the Sicily Channel. Through high resolution seismic profiles acquired around the Lampedusa Island offshore, the reconstruction of an updated structural setting of this area and its regional correlation has been performed. The late Miocene-early Pliocene rifting affects directly the structural evolution of the Lampedusa plateau, with the development of a graben and half-graben setting in most of the offshore area, widely filled with the syn-rift deposits. In the northern sector, the activity of the normal faults associated with the rifting is active up to the early Pliocene, whereas it is quiescent since late Miocene in southern sector. This current fabric of the Lampedusa plateau derives by its involvement in regional extensional regime, lying in a dextral-transtensive zone and marked by pull-apart basins. In particular, two systems of the normal faults in the Lampedusa offshore have been recognized. The Master Extensional Faults oriented WNW-ESE represent the main structural alignment of the Lampedusa offshore and reflect the extensional trending of the Sicily Channel. The Second order of Extensional Faults, oriented NNW-SSE, bounds smaller pull-apart basins and are probably associated with the main dextral-transtensive regional regime. From the comparison with some preexisting models, an update stratigraphic-structural model is proposed also to the southeastern continental shelf between the Gela-Catania foredeep and the Hyblean foreland offshore, along the Marina di Ragusa offshore. The seismo-stratigraphic interpretation shows a NE-SW extensional faults system that involves only the late Miocene formations, probably connected to history of the Scicli Line. Furthermore, the late Miocene extensional tectonic activity involves widely affects the offshore portions of the Hyblean foreland and its ramp, but it does not show evidences that this activity has involved the Plio-Pleistocene succession. The deposition of the Gessoso-Solfifera Formation has been widely recognized in the Hyblean foreland ramp, demonstrating that the evaporitic deposition does not is a peculiarity only of the deposits within the semi-isolated and marginal sub-basins or of the thrust top mini-basins of the Appennine-Maghrebides belt, but extends also in areas where the extensional tectonic have been dominant. Through Multibeam bathymetric data, an update characterization of the geomorphological setting of the north-east Sicily continental shelf, between Milazzo Promontory and the area offshore from the Saponara River, is provided. Furthermore, through high-resolution CHIRP seismic profiles interpretation, a reconstruction of the evolution of the last eustatic sea level cycle is performed. The lowstand succession, corresponding with the foreset of the prograding clinoforms of the continental margin deposits, determines the accommodation space for the depositional processes that occur during the rise of the sea level. In fact, the evolution of the transgressive and highstand wedges is strongly influenced by the geometry of the underlying lowstand succession. The transgressive wedge is developed in the 80-100 m bathymetric range and consists of the relict geomorphic elements that represent past landscape. These elements tracked the variations in coastline position during the last sea-level rise, formed during an interval of relatively reduced rate of sealevel rise. Furthermore, a reconstruction of the geomorphological evolution of the past coastal systems during the last transgressive stage is provided. The highstand wedge consists of the Corriolo, Muto, Niceto, Cocuzzaro and Rometta delta deposits that widely develop on the offshore portions of the inner continental shelf.2017-12-18T23:00:00ZInnovative numerical petrological methods for definition of metamorphic timescale events of southern European Variscan relicts via thermodynamic and diffusion modelling of zoned garnets
http://hdl.handle.net/10761/4089
Titolo: Innovative numerical petrological methods for definition of metamorphic timescale events of southern European Variscan relicts via thermodynamic and diffusion modelling of zoned garnets
Autori: Visalli, Roberto
Abstract: Innovative numerical petrology methods have been developed using several computer programming languages, to investigate chemical-physical properties of metamorphic rocks at the microscale. These methods can help users to analyse the final aspect of the metamorphic rocks, which derives from the counterbalancing factors controlled by deformation vs. recovery processes, through a better quantification of the rock fabric parameters (e.g., grain and mineral size distribution) as well as of the rock volumes and the specific compositions that take part in the reactions during each metamorphic evolutionary stage.
In this perspective, a grain boundary detection tool (i.e., Grain Size Detection - GSD) was created to draw grain boundary and create polygon features in a Geographic Information System (GIS) platform using thin section optical scans as input images. Such a tool allows users to obtain several pieces of information from the investigated samples such as grain surfaces and sizes displayed as derivative maps. These maps have been then integrated with the mineralogical distribution map of the entire thin section classified from the micro X-ray maps. This step has been made to enhance the grain size distribution analysis by associating a mineral label to each polygon feature, by developing a further tool called Min-GSD (i.e., Mineral-Grain Size Distribution).
The image analysis of rocks at the microscale was further improved by introducing a new multilinear regression technique within a previous image analysis software (i.e., X-ray Map Analyser - XRMA), with the aim to calibrate X-ray maps per each classified mineral of the selected thin section microdomain. This enhancement (called Quantitative X-ray Map Analyser - Q-XRMA) allowed to compute: (a) the elemental concentration within a single phase expressed in a.p.f.u; (b) maps of the end member fractions defining the potential zoning patterns of solid solution mineral phases.
Moreover, the classification through this new method of one or several microdomains per thin section, able to describe the potential sequence of recognized metamorphic equilibria, has been here used to a better definition of the effective bulk rock chemistries at the base of a more robust thermodynamic modelling, providing more reliable thermobaric constraints.
These thermobaric constraints were here converted for the first time into Pressure-Temperature (PT) maps by the development of an add-on (i.e., Diffusion Coefficient Map Creator - DCMC) of the previous tool (Q-XRMA), for creating maps of compositionally-dependent diffusion coefficients, by integrating diffusion data from the literature. As a result, an articulated Local Information System (LIS) for the investigated mineral, involving data on composition, grain size, modal amounts and kinetic rates, is created and potentially useful for detailed investigations as, for instance, the determination of the timescales of metamorphic events.
All of these methods mentioned above can be considered part of the Petromatics discipline, here for the first time defined as the science which integrates new computers technologies with different techno-scientific sectors related to the detection and handling of spatial minerochemical data characterising rocks at the microscale.
Furthermore, the quantification of the rock parameters at the microscale laid the groundwork for the development of an innovative numerical petrological workflow here called Metamorphic Petrology Information System (MetPetIS). The latter is a new LIS able to store, manage and elaborate multidisciplinary and multiscale data collection from metamorphic basement rocks within a unique cyber-infrastructure.2017-12-18T23:00:00ZStudio morfo strutturale e geodinamico di strutture tettoniche recenti lungo il bordo meridionale dell'Arco Calabro
http://hdl.handle.net/10761/4183
Titolo: Studio morfo strutturale e geodinamico di strutture tettoniche recenti lungo il bordo meridionale dell'Arco Calabro
Autori: Cultrera, Fabrizio
Abstract: a2018-12-19T23:00:00ZUnravelling volcanic tremor source at mount etna from quantitative multiparametric analysis and moment tenso inversion.
http://hdl.handle.net/10761/4134
Titolo: Unravelling volcanic tremor source at mount etna from quantitative multiparametric analysis and moment tenso inversion.
Autori: Spedalieri, Giancarlo
Abstract: UNRAVELLING VOLCANIC TREMOR SOURCE AT MOUNT ETNA FROM QUANTITATIVE MULTIPARAMETRIC ANALYSIS AND MOMENT TENSOR INVERSION
Developments of multiparametric monitoring networks, real time analysis techniques and the acquisition of high-resolution data, have allowed to improve the knowledge of the structures and dynamics that characterize the active volcanoes. To understand the dynamics of an active volcano, it is possible to proceed with two different types of studies: i) multiparametric studies based on the joint analysis of different data (such as geophysical, geochemical, petrological data); ii) detailed studies concerning specific data.
In order to understand source volcanic tremor at Mt. Etna volcano, volcanic tremor recorded during the vigorous summit of 2011-2012 was analyzed. In particular, this thesis shows the results obtained from the investigation of the volcanic tremor source through a duplex study: i) a multiparametric study based on the quantitative comparison between different time series such as volcanic tremor amplitudes and geochemical data such as soil CO2 flux and the SO2 flux at summit craters; ii) a moment tensor inversion analysis of volcanic tremor recorded during a lava fountain episode of the considered period. For these studies, data acquired from the multiparametric monitoring network managed by Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia were used.The quantitative comparison between seismic and geochemical data was performed in order to identify and quantitatively estimate similar trends variations between the compared time series, both synchronous and characterized by time lags. To this end, four different analysis techniques have been implemented, such as Cross-Correlation, Randomized Cross-Correlation, wavelet analysis and linear regression. The obtained results allowed to infer pressurization and depressurization dynamics of the plumbing system during the different eruptive phases observed during the considered period. The moment tensor inversion analysis of the volcanic tremor recorded at Mt. Etna represents a novelty. Specifically, this analysis was applied to volcanic tremor recorded during the lava fountain episode that occurred on 5 August 2011, one of the most vigorous of the 25 episodes that characterized the 2011-2012 period. The results allowed to highlight a source mechanism generated by a sub-horizontal crack near the summit crater area, which can be interpreted as a valve through which gas-rich magma is ejected during the lava fountain activities.2019-01-15T23:00:00Z