Origin and Development of Cave System in the Rosandra Valley (Classical Karst - Italy)

V terciarnih apnencih zgornjega dela doline Glinščice je jamski sistem Savi - Fessura del Vento, v ozemlju, kjer je intenzivna tektonika povzročila vrsto narivov, pomešanih s prelomi. V dolini Glinščice in v tamkajšnjih jamah je nekaj ključnih dejstev v dokaz, da je najmlajša tektonika vplivala tako na površinsko (neenakomernost pobočij, skoki in spremembe smeri teka Glinščice) kot na podzemeljsko morfologijo (premaknjene korozijske oblike, podori in druge morfološke oblike).The system Savi - Fessura del Vento caves occurs in the Rosandra Valley Tertiary limestones in an area where intense tectonic influences have caused a series of overthrusts mixed with faults. In Rosandra Valley’s area and in its caves there are some clues reporting recent tectonics which have conditioned both, epigean (slope irregularities, falls and variations of directions along the course of Rosandra creek) and hypogean morphologies (displaced solution forms, breakdowns and other morphologies)

Influence of geostructural conditions on the speleogenesis of the Trieste Karst (Italy).

The Trieste karst is a relative old karst evolving since almost 10 million years: the initial superficial morphologies (planation surface which have evolved in the shape of polje system and deep collapse dolines) are hard to distinguish. The cavities maintain rare primary morphologies filled by deposits, breakdowns and concretions, which contemporarily modify other depths due to baseline level changes and to adaptations to tectonic movements. The comparison between the structural setting of the rocks and development directions of the caves, confirms the strict influence caused by the geological-structural features on speleogenesis: the drainage network should have been prevailingly conditioned by the highest slope of the stratification (sometimes modified by intersections following a similar direction between strata and fracture plains). As secondary influences regards the presence of \u201copened planes\u201d and those related to intersection lines between opened plains due to tectonics or structural features

Change detection and classification of seismic damage with LiDAR and RADAR surveys in supporting emergency planning. The case of amatrice

The spread of new satellite and LiDAR data is recently leading to the development of effective methodologies to support the monitoring and management of disaster risks, assessing the level of damages in the very early post-event phase. The increasing availability of SAR images and the diffusion of LiDAR data due to technologies such as solutions such as drones offers the opportunity to experiment new techniques for monitoring the territory. The paper will examine the case study of Amatrice (Central Italy), the Municipality most affected by the seismic swarm started in August 2016, and discuss the results obtained with the technique of interferometric differentiation and detection of change

Early Roman military fortifications and the origin of Trieste (Italy)

An interdisciplinary study of the archaeological landscape of the Trieste area (northeastern Italy), mainly based on airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR), ground penetrating radar (GPR), and archaeological surveys, has led to the discovery of an early Roman fortification system, composed of a big central camp (San Rocco) flanked by two minor forts. The most ancient archaeological findings, including a Greco-Italic amphora rim produced in Latium or Campania, provide a relative chronology for the first installation of the structures between the end of the third century B.C. and the first decades of the second century B.C. whereas other materials, such as Lamboglia 2 amphorae and a military footwear hobnail (type D of Alesia), indicate that they maintained a strategic role at least up to the mid first century B.C. According to archaeological data and literary sources, the siteswere probably established in connection with the Roman conquest of the Istria peninsula in 178-177 B.C. They were in use, perhaps not continuously, at least until the foundation of Tergeste, the ancestor of Trieste, in the mid first century B.C. The San Rocco site, with its exceptional size and imposing fortifications, is the main known Roman evidence of the Trieste area during this phase and could correspond to the location of the first settlement of Tergeste preceding the colony foundation. This hypothesis would also be supported by literary sources that describe it as a phrourion (Strabo, V, 1, 9, C 215), a term used by ancient writers to designate the fortifications of the Roman army