Archivio Istituzionale della RicercaThe RodorettoValley(about25km2) (WesternAlps,NWItaly)shapedinthemetamorphic bedrock, coveredbyQuaternarysediments,isinvolvedinsignificant deep-seated gravitational slopedeformation(DSGSD).Adetailed field surveyrevealedseveralmorpho- structures typicallyrelatedtoDSGSDphenomena(openfractures,doubledridges,scarps, trenches, counterscarpsandbulgingreliefs)andothersignificant gravitational morphologies, heredefined asgravitationalvalleys,notpreviouslyreportedingeological literature.Fieldwork alsoallowedustodistinguishvarioustypesofglacialsediments, reconstructing thesupplybasins,relativelydatingglacialismtoLGMandLateGlacial- Holocene andevaluatingtheirgravitationaldislocation.Thewideextensionofthearea characterized byDSGSDandincrediblybigdimensionofsinglemorpho-structuresarethe most importantrecognizedfeatures.Inparticular,weobservedthatentiresectorsofthe study areaweregravitativelyconditionednotonlybylocalslidalongtheRodorettoslopes but alsobymovementtowardsthenearbyanddeeperGermanascaValley.
Deep-seated gravitationa lslope deformation involving glacial evidence in the Rodoretto Valley (NW Alps) / Gabriella Forno, M.; Gattiglio, Marco; Ghignone, Stefano; Taddia, Glenda. - In: JOURNAL OF MAPS. - ISSN 1744-5647. - ELETTRONICO. - 17:2(2021), pp. 705-717. [10.1080/17445647.2021.1996476]
Deep-seated gravitationa lslope deformation involving glacial evidence in the Rodoretto Valley (NW Alps)
Glenda Taddia
2021
Abstract
The RodorettoValley(about25km2) (WesternAlps,NWItaly)shapedinthemetamorphic bedrock, coveredbyQuaternarysediments,isinvolvedinsignificant deep-seated gravitational slopedeformation(DSGSD).Adetailed field surveyrevealedseveralmorpho- structures typicallyrelatedtoDSGSDphenomena(openfractures,doubledridges,scarps, trenches, counterscarpsandbulgingreliefs)andothersignificant gravitational morphologies, heredefined asgravitationalvalleys,notpreviouslyreportedingeological literature.Fieldwork alsoallowedustodistinguishvarioustypesofglacialsediments, reconstructing thesupplybasins,relativelydatingglacialismtoLGMandLateGlacial- Holocene andevaluatingtheirgravitationaldislocation.Thewideextensionofthearea characterized byDSGSDandincrediblybigdimensionofsinglemorpho-structuresarethe most importantrecognizedfeatures.Inparticular,weobservedthatentiresectorsofthe study areaweregravitativelyconditionednotonlybylocalslidalongtheRodorettoslopes but alsobymovementtowardsthenearbyanddeeperGermanascaValley.
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