 Activity maps of multi-source mudslides from the Daunia Apennines (Apulia, southern Italy)Luigi Spalluto (),
Antonio Fiore,
Maria Nilla Miccoli and
Mario Parise
Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, 2021, vol. 106, issue 1, No 12, 277-301 Abstract: Abstract Multi-source mudslides are common in the Daunia Apennines, i.e., the Apulian sector of the Southern Apennines of Italy, and play an important role in the historical evolution of the landscape, with significant impact on the social and economic activities of the area. They also represent the most relevant geological hazard along the front of the Apennine Chain and expose to a considerable risk the local population and infrastructures. The outer sector of the Daunia Apennines is part of the foreland thrust belt system, made up of fissured fine-grained materials, belonging to the Daunia tectonic unit formations. Concerning landslide typology, the most frequent slope movements are represented by flows and composite mudslides, the latter typically starting as slumps evolving from flows. This paper deals with the production of landslide activity maps of three case studies of composite mudslides from the front of the Daunia Apennines. The maps were produced integrating traditional interpretation of multi-year aerial photograph coverage and field surveys with the available digital elevation models to analyze surface morphology. Each landslide activity map corresponds to multi-temporal landslide inventories compiled for the last 15–20 years. This paper outlined that in the last 20 years the front of the Daunia Apennines underwent a significant reactivation of slope failure phenomena after years of quiescence, or of limited activity. The three case studies clearly confirm that: (i) the active portions of the mudslides are located inside or near preexisting slope failures, and (ii) the spatial distribution of instability phenomena is strictly dependent upon the presence of older, larger and dormant, phenomena. Landslide activity maps are an important tool for the evaluation of landslide susceptibility and hazard in the study area, and for quantitative geomorphological analyses it aimed at understanding the long-term geomorphological evolution of this portion of the Southern Apennines. Moreover, we argue that high-quality multi-temporal inventories could have positive effects on all derivative products and analyses, including erosion studies and landscape modeling, susceptibility and hazard assessments, and risk evaluations as well. Keywords: Landslide activity map; Multi-temporal analysis; Reactivated mudslide; Daunia apennines; Apulia (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:nathaz:v:106:y:2021:i:1:d:10.1007_s11069-020-04461-3 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/s11069-020-04461-3 Access Statistics for this article Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards is currently edited by Thomas Glade, Tad S. Murty and Vladimír Schenk More articles in Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards from Springer, International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards |
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