Fault zone characteristics and scaling properties of the Val d’Agri Fault System (Southern Apennines, Italy)     

Giuseppe Cello  Roberto Gambini  Stefano Mazzoli  Andrew Read  Emanuele Tondi  Vittorio Zucconi 《Journal of Geodynamics》2000,29(3-5)

Systematic in situ analysis of active fault zones in Val d’Agri (southern Italy) suggests that the acquisition of quantitative data on fault-related structural discontinuities is fundamental for (1) discriminating between the latter and older regional features, (2) defining the architecture and related permeability structure of faults, and (3) performing simple statistics in order to evaluate the validity range within which fault characteristics may be considered to be fractals. This type of information can be integrated with regional seismotectonic analysis in order to asses the present-day conditions of deformation characterising the area, and to constrain the possible kinematics of the seismogenic structures controlling earthquake activity in this sector of the southern Apennines. The results of our study are also of interest for modelling earthquake sources, since a knowledge of the permeability structure and scaling properties of a faulted rock volume is potentially relevant for simulating the time and space dependent behaviour of fault zones during a seismic cycle.  相似文献   

Impact of the East African Rift System on the routing of the deep-water drainage network offshore Tanzania,western Indian Ocean     

Vittorio Maselli  Dick Kroon  David Iacopini  Bridget S. Wade  Paul N. Pearson  Henk de Haas 《Basin Research》2020,32(5):789-803

The East African Rift System (EARS) exerted a major influence on river drainage basins and regional climate of east Africa during the Cenozoic. Recent studies have highlighted an offshore branch of the EARS in the western Indian Ocean, where the Kerimbas Graben and the Davie Ridge represent its sea floor expression. To date, a clear picture of the impact and timing of this EARS offshore branch on the continental margin of the western Indian Ocean, and associated sediment dispersal pathways, is still missing. This study presents new evidence for four giant canyons along the northern portion of the Davie Ridge offshore Tanzania. Seismic and multibeam bathymetric data highlight that the southernmost three canyons are now inactive, supra-elevated relative to the adjacent sea floor of the Kerimbas Graben and disconnected from the modern slope systems offshore the Rovuma and Rufiji River deltas. Regional correlation of dated seismic horizons, integrated with well data and sediment samples, proves that the tectonic activity driving the uplift of the Davie Ridge in this area has started during the middle-upper Miocene and is still ongoing, as suggested by the presence of fault escarpments at the sea floor and by the location and magnitude of recent earthquakes. Our findings contribute to placing the Kerimbas Graben and the Davie Ridge offshore Tanzania in the regional geodynamic context of the western Indian Ocean and show how the tectonics of the offshore branch of the EARS modified the physiography of the margin, re-routing the deep-water drainage network since the middle Miocene. Future studies are needed to understand the influence of changing sea floor topography on the western Indian Ocean circulation and to evaluate the potential of the EARS offshore tectonics in generating tsunamigenic events.  相似文献   

Upslope-climbing shelf-edge clinoforms and the stepwise evolution of the northern European glaciation (lower Pleistocene Eridanos Delta system,U.K. North Sea): When sediment supply overwhelms accommodation     

Stefano Patruno  Vittorio Scisciani  William Helland-Hansen  Nico D'Intino  William Reid  Claudio Pellegrini 《Basin Research》2020,32(2):224-239

Clinoforms are basinward-dipping and accreting palaeo-bathymetric profiles that record palaeo-environmental conditions and processes; thus, clinothems represent natural palaeo-archives. Here, we document shelf-edge scale clinoform sets which prograded through the entire width of an epicontinental marine basin (ca. 400 km), eventually encroaching onto the opposite basin flank, where they started to prograde upslope and landward, in defiance of gravity (“upslope-climbing clinoforms”). The giant westward-prograding Eridanos muddy shelf-edge clinothem originated from the Baltic hinterland in the Oligocene and achieved maximum regression in the Early Pleistocene, on the UK Central Graben (CG) and Mid North Sea High (MNSH), after crossing the whole North Sea mesopelagic depocentre and causing near complete basin infill. Here we integrate well and seismic data through the MNSH and CG and examine the Eridanos final heyday and demise, identifying five clinothem complexes (A1, A2, A3, B and C) and six depositional sequence boundaries (SB1 to SB6) in the Miocene-Recent section. Tectonic and climatic events drove the recent evolution of this system. Early Pleistocene climate cooling, in particular, resulted in a stepwise increase in sediment supply. This climaxed in the earliest Calabrian, following a likely Eburonian eustatic fall (=SB3) when the Eridanos clastic wedge was restructured from a 100–300 m thick compound shelf-edge and delta system to a “hybrid” shelf-edge delta at sequence boundary SB3 (ca. 1.75 Ma). In the ca. 40 kyr that followed SB3, a progradation rate peak (>1,000 m/kyr) is associated with clinoforms starting to accrete upslope, onto the east-dipping slope between CG and MNSH. This “upslope-climbing clinoform” phase was quickly followed by the maximum regression and final retreat of the Eridanos system in the Early Calabrian (=SB4), likely as the result of climate-driven changes in the Baltic hinterland and/or delta auto-retreat. To our knowledge, this contributions represents the first documentation of “upslope-climbing clinoforms” recorded in the stratigraphic record.  相似文献   

Constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity from a needlet analysis of the WMAP-5 data     

Davide Pietrobon  Paolo Cabella  Amedeo Balbi  Giancarlo de Gasperis  Nicola Vittorio 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2009,396(3):1682-1688

We look for a non-Gaussian signal in the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe ( WMAP ) 5-year temperature anisotropy maps by performing a needlet-based data analysis. We use the foreground-reduced maps obtained by the WMAP team through the optimal combination of the W, V and Q channels, and perform realistic non-Gaussian simulations in order to constrain the non-linear coupling parameter f _NL. We apply a third-order estimator of the needlet coefficients skewness and compute the  χ²  statistics of its distribution. We obtain  −80 < f _NL < 120  at 95 per cent confidence level, which is consistent with a Gaussian distribution and comparable to previous constraints on the non-linear coupling. We then develop an estimator of f _NL based on the same simulations and we find consistent constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity. We finally compute the three-point correlation function in needlet space: the constraints on f _NL improve to  −50 < f _NL < 110  at 95 per cent confidence level.  相似文献   

The proximity effect around high-redshift galaxies     

A. Maselli  A. Ferrara  M. Bruscoli  S. Marri  R. Schneider 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2004,350(2):L21-L25

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The Hyblean xenolith suite (Sicily): an unexpected legacy of the Ionian–Tethys realm     

Fabio Carmelo Manuella  Vittorio Scribano  Serafina Carbone  Alfonso Brancato 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》2015,104(5):1317-1336

The extensive study of a great number of deep-seated xenoliths from Tortonian tuff-breccia pipes in the Hyblean area (Sicily) revealed the following fundamental evidence: (1) typical continental crust rocks are completely absent in the entire xenolith suite; (2) mantle ultramafics are more abundant than gabbroids; (3) sheared oxide–gabbros, closely resembling those from oceanic fracture zones, are relatively common; (4) secondary mineral assemblages, compatible with alteration processes in serpentinite-hosted hydrothermal systems, occur both in peridotites and gabbros. Among the products of this hydrothermal activity, organic compounds, having abiotic origin via Fischer–Tropsch synthesis, occur in some hydrothermally altered gabbro and ultramafic xenoliths, as well as in hydrothermal clays. Moreover, the U–Pb dating of hydrothermal zircon grains, hosted in a xenolith of metasomatized tectonic breccia, indicated an Early–Middle Triassic age of the fossil hydrothermal system. Another line of evidence for the oceanic nature of the Hyblean–Pelagian basement is the complete absence of continental crust lithologies (granites, felsic metaigneous, and metasedimentary rocks) in outcrops and in boreholes, and the oceanic affinity of the Tertiary volcanic rocks from the Hyblean Plateau and the Sicily Channel (Pantelleria and Linosa Islands), which lack of any geochemical signature for continental crust contamination. A reappraisal of existing geophysical data pointed out that serpentinites form the dominant lithologies in the lithospheric basement of the Hyblean–Pelagian area down to a mean depth of 19 km, which represents the regional Moho considered as the serpentinization front, marking the transition from serpentinites to unaltered peridotites. On these grounds, we confirm that Hyblean xenoliths contain mineralogical, compositional, and textural evidence for tectonic, magmatic, and hydrothermal processes indicating the existence of fossil oceanic core complexes, in the geotectonic framework of the Paleo–Mesozoic, ultra-slow spreading, Ionian–Tethys Ocean forming the present Ionian–Hyblean–Pelagian domain.  相似文献   

Downscaled estimates of late 21st century severe weather from CCSM3     

Vittorio A. Gensini  Thomas L. Mote 《Climatic change》2015,129(1-2):307-321

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Vasily Ivanovich Moroz (20.05.1931-23.06.2004)     

Vittorio Formisano 《Planetary and Space Science》2005,53(10):959

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The integrated bispectrum as a test of cosmic microwave background non-Gaussianity: detection power and limits on f_NL with WMAP data     

P. Cabella  F. K. Hansen  M. Liguori  D. Marinucci  S. Matarrese  L. Moscardini  N. Vittorio 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2006,369(2):819-824

We note that H₂ emitting planetary nebulae tend to have Zanstra temperatures   T _Z(He  ii ) > 90 kK  . This is shown to be consistent with a large evolutionary lifetime, and the kinematic ages of the envelopes. Non-local thermodynamic equilibrium stellar atmospheric modelling also shows that levels of soft X-ray emission increase more rapidly than has previously been assumed, and are preferentially large in H₂ emitting sources. It is suggested that this may hold the key to explaining the strengths of the H₂ transitions.  相似文献   

Zero-population stars     

Vittorio Castellani  Paolo Paolicchi 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1975,35(1):185-196

The expected characteristics of stars with zero metal content are investigated for a large range of masses and in varying the original helium-content. It is shown that, in such an extreme case (Z=0), the Main Sequence locus is much less sensitive than expected to the He-content;Y=0 models are found to ignite 3α reactions in the Zero-Age Main Sequence at masses larger by ～ 5M _⊙ than in theY=0.2 case. A comparison with previous results discloses the M.S. slope to be a sensitive function of the metal content only. Evolutionary computations confirm that possible survivors of the zero population can develop a giant branch, akin to that of the well-known Population II stars.  相似文献