Morphotectonics of the Upper Tiber Valley (Northern Apennines, Italy) through quantitative analysis of drainage and landforms

详细信息    查看全文

• 作者：L. Melelli (1)
  S. Pucci (2)
  L. Saccucci (3)
  F. Mirabella (1) (4)
  F. Pazzaglia (5)
  M. Barchi (1)
  
  1. Dipartimento di Fisica e Geologia ; Universit脿 di Perugia ; Perugia ; Italy
  2. Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia ; Rome ; Italy
  3. Perugia ; Italy
  4. Istituto di Ricerca per la Protezione Idrogeologica ; Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche ; via Madonna Alta 126 ; 06128 ; Perugia ; Italy
  5. IntGeoMod s.r.l. ; Via Innamorati 7/a ; 06123 ; Perugia ; Italy
  
• 关键词：Geomorphometry ; Neotectonic ; Tiber basin ; Umbria region
• 刊名：Rendiconti Lincei
• 出版年：2014
• 出版时间：December 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：25
• 期：2-supp
• 页码：129-138
• 全文大小：3,525 KB
• 参考文献：1. Ambrosetti P, Carraro F, Deiana G, Dramis F (1982) Il sollevamento dell鈥橧talia centrale tra il Pleistocene inferiore e il Pleistocene medio. Contributo conclusivo per la realizzazione della Carta Neotettonica d鈥橧talia (II), CNR Progetto Finalizzato 鈥淕eodinamica, S.P. Neotettonica鈥? 356, pp 1341鈥?343
  2. Ambrosetti, P, Carboni, MG, Conti, MA, Esu, D, Girotti, O, Monica, GB, Landini, B, Parisi, G (1987) Il Pliocene ed il Pleistocene del Bacino del fiume Tevere nell鈥橴mbria Meridionale. Geogr Fis Dinam Quat 10: pp. 10-33
  3. Barchi, MR, Ciaccio, MG (2009) Seismic images of an extensional basin, generated at the hanging wall of a low-angle normal fault: the case of the Sansepolcro basin (central Italy). Tectonophysics 479: pp. 285-293 CrossRef
  4. Barchi M, Brozzetti F, Lavecchia G (1991) Analisi strutturale e geometrica dei bacini della media Valle del Tevere e della Valle Umbra. Boll Soc Geol It 110
  5. Bartolini, C (2012) Is the morphogenetic role of tectonics overemphasized at times?. Bollettino di Geofisica Teorica e Applicata 53: pp. 459-470
  6. Basilici, G (1997) Sedimentary facies in an extensional and deep-lacustrine depositional system: the Pliocene Tiberino basin, central Italy. Sediment Geol 109: pp. 73-94 CrossRef
  7. Belisario F, Del Monte M, Fredi P, Funiciello R, Lupia Palmieri E, Salvini F (1999) Azimuthal analysis of stream orientations to define regional tectonic lines. Fourth International Geomorphology Conference, Bologna. Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie, Suppl-Bd 118, pp 41鈥?3
  8. Beneduce, P, Festa, V, Francioso, R, Schiattarella, M, Tropeano, M (2004) Conflicting drainage patterns in the Matera Horst Area southern Italy. Phys chem Earth 29: pp. 717-724 CrossRef
  9. Bull WB (2008) Tectonic geomorphology of mountains: a new approach to paleoseismology. Blackwell, p 316. ISBN-13: 978-1405154796
  10. Bull, WB, McFadden, L Tectonic geomorphology north and south of the Garlock fault, California. In: ditors">Dohering, DO eds. (1977) Geomorphology in arid regions publications in geomorphology. State University of New York, Binghamton, pp. 115-138
  11. Cattuto, C, Cencetti, C, Fisauli, M, Gregori, L (1995) I bacini pleistocenici di Anghiari e Sansepolcro nell鈥檃lta valle del F. Tevere Il Quaternario 8: pp. 119-128
  12. Ciotoli, G, Della Seta, M, Monte, M, Fredi, P, Lombardi, S, Lupia Palmieri, E, Pugliese, F (2003) Morphological and geochemical evidence of neotectonics in the volcanic area of Monti Vulsini (Latium, Italy). Quatern Int 101鈥?02: pp. 103-113 CrossRef
  13. Collettini, C, Barchi, MR (2002) A low-angle normal fault in the Umbria region (central Italy): a mechanical model for the related microseismicity. Tectonophysics 359: pp. 97-115 CrossRef
  14. Conti, MA, Girotti, O (1977) Villafranchiano del 鈥淟ago Tiberino鈥? ramo sud occidentale, schema stratigrafico e tettonico. Geol Romana 16: pp. 67-80
  15. D鈥橝gostino, N, Jackson, J, Dramis, F, Funicello, R (2001) Interaction between mantle upwelling, drainage evolution and active normal faulting: an example from the central Apennines (Italy). Geophys J Int 147: pp. 475-497 CrossRef
  16. Delle Donne, D, Piccardo, L, Odum, JK, Stephenson, WJ, Williams, RA (2007) High-resolution shallow reflection seismic image and surface evidence of the Upper Tiber Basin active faults (Northern Apennines, Italy). Boll Soc Geol Ital 126: pp. 323-331
  17. Flint, JJ (1974) Stream gradient as a function of order, magnitude, and discharge. Water Resour Res 10: pp. 969-973 CrossRef
  18. Goudie, A (2004) Encyclopedia of geomorphology Vol 2. Taylor and Francis Group Ed, Beijing
  19. Horton, RE (1945) Erosional development of stream and their drainage basins: hydrophysical approach to quantitative morphology. Geol Soc Am Bull 56: pp. 275-370 CrossRef
  20. Keller, EA Investigation of active tectonics: use of surficial earth processes. In: ditors">Wallace, RE eds. (1986) Active tectonics studies in Geophysics. National Academies Press, Washington, DC, pp. 136-147
  21. Lotti B (1926) Descrizione geologica dell鈥橴mbria. Memorie Descrittive della Carta Geologica d鈥橧talia, 21, p 320
  22. Lupia Palmieri, E, Centamore, E, Ciccacci, S, D鈥橝lessandro, L, Monte, M, Fredi, P, Pugliese, F (2001) Geomorfologia quantitativa e morfodinamica del territorio abruzzese III鈥揑l bacino idrografico del Fiume Saline. Geogr Fis Dinam Quat 24: pp. 157-176
  23. Melelli L, Saccucci L, Fiorucci L, Barchi M, Mirabella F, Pazzaglia F, Pucci S (2012) Geomorphological quantitative analysis of high Tiber Valley drainage network (Umbria, Italy). Rend Online Soc Geol It 21, parte II, 1120鈥?121
  24. Mirabella F, Barchi M, Brozzetti F, Lupattelli A, Melelli L, Saccucci L, Pazzaglia F, Pucci S. (2010) Morphotectonic evolution of a quaternary basin driven by a segmented low-angle extensional system. Rendiconti Online della Societ脿 Geologica Italiana
  25. Mirabella F, Brozzetti F, Lupattelli A, Barchi MR (2011) Tectonic evolution of a low-angle extensional fault system from restored cross-sections in the Northern Apennines (Italy). Tectonics, 30, TC6002, doi:10.1029/2011TC002890
  26. Pucci S, Mirabella F, Pazzaglia F, Barchi MR, Melelli L, Tuccimei P, Soligo M, Saccucci L (2014) Interaction between regional and local tectonic forcing along a complex quaternary extensional basin: Upper Tiber Valley, Northern Apennines, Italy. Quat Sci Rev 102:111鈥?32. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.08.009
  27. Sagri M, Martini IP, Pascucci V (2004) Sedimentary and tectonic evolution of selected neogene鈥搎uaternary basins of the Apennines (Italy). Field trip guide books, 32nd International Geological Congress, Florence鈥揑taly, 20鈥?8 August 2004. 4, pp 14鈥?6
  28. Schiattarella, M, Leo, P, Beneduce, P, Giano, SI (2003) Quaternary uplift vs tectonic loading: a case-study from the Lucanian Apennine, southern Italy. Quatern Int 101鈥?02: pp. 239-251 CrossRef
  29. Strahler, AN (1980) System theory in general geography. Phys Geogr 1: pp. 1-27
  30. Troiani, F, Della Seta, M (2011) Geomorphological response of fluvial and coastal terraces to quaternary tectonics and climate as revealed by geostatistical topographic analysis. Earth Surf Proc Land 36: pp. 1193-1208 CrossRef
  31. Tucker, GE, Whipple, KX (2002) Topographic outcomes predicted by stream erosion models: sensitivity analysis and intermodal comparison. J Geophys Res 107: pp. 2179 CrossRef
  32. Whipple KX, Wobus C, Crosby B, Kirby E, Sheehan D (2007) New tools for quantitative geomorphology: extraction and interpretation of stream profiles from digital elevation data. GSA annual meeting, 28 October 2007, special bulletin. Boulder, CO
  33. Wobus, C, Crosby, B, Whipple, KX (2006) Hanging valleys in fluvial systems: control on occurrence and implications for landscape evolution. J Geophys Res 111: pp. F02017
  
• 刊物类别：Earth and Environmental Science
• 刊物主题：Earth sciences
  Life Sciences
  Biomedicine
  History of Science
  
• 出版者：Springer Milan
• ISSN：1720-0776

文摘

We present a geomorphological analysis of the recent extensional tectonics of a Quaternary continental basin in the Northern Apennines (Italy). The study area is focused on Upper Tiber Valley (UTV), a basin elongated for 70 km in NNW-SSE direction hosting the Tiber River. The area is characterized by a series of features that make it an excellent case study: (i) homogeneity of lithology (ii) active faults, and (iii) strong morphogenetic activity. In this study, 36 hydrographical basins, tributaries of Tiber River, have been analysed. A preliminary qualitative geomorphological setting was outlined pointing out that the drainage river network shows meaningful evidence of tectonic control, such as abrupt changes in stream directions, knickpoints and steepness anomalies alignments along meaningful length in adjacent basins. Besides, the tectonic control is well marked in base level changes and consequent tectonically induced downcutting. Signs of neotectonics are highlighted by structural landforms too. The entrenchment of alluvial fans, the triangular facets and the fault planes are mapped by field survey and aerial photo interpretation. In addition, a quantitative analysis was also performed. Linear, areal and volumetric indexes related to drainage basins and river networks are taken into account. The geometry of the escarpments delimiting the basin and the landforms detected along the adjacent piedmont are investigated. The ranges of values, according to the existing literature, confirm a condition of wide-ranging morphological disturbance. In the central part of the study area, while the western basins are almost in equilibrium, the eastern ones reveal clear signs of disequilibrium, this is particularly evident along the distal segment of the river network. These data, joined with the characteristics of the escarpment and piedmont junction, confirm that the neotectonic activity, in the centre and in the eastern side of the basin, is the main factor controlling the morphological system.