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IMAGE: Campotosto Lake looking north, with the top of Mount Gorzano in the center of the picture and the Sibillini Mountains in the background. Campotosto village is on the left side. view more
Credit: Photo by Eugenio Pistolesi.
Boulder, Colo., USA: Between 1997 and 2017, central Italy was struck by several seismic sequences that cumulatively claimed more than 600 victims, besides producing widespread destruction in historical towns and damage to vital infrastructures. Based on the integration of geological and seismological datasets, this new study published in the
Geological Society of America Bulletin provides a 4D, high-resolution image of a crustal volume hosting an active linkage zone between two major seismogenic faults.
Mon Oct 29 2007 at 18:36:26 A rock glacier (AKA a block stream) is an ill-defined beast. It is, in essence, a pile of rocks that looks or acts like a glacier: .a tongue-like or lobate body, usually of angular boulders, that resembles a small glacier, generally occurs in high mountainous terrain and usually has ridges, furrows, and sometimes lobes on its surface, and has a steep front at the angle of repose. N. Potter Jr.,
1972 Ice-cored rock glacier, Galena Creek, northern Absaroka Mountains, Wyoming. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 83, 3025-3057. Rock glaciers commonly occur along the bases of cliffs or on the floors of cirques. They look like giant lobate lava flows made of chunks of rock, often containing boulders measuring meters in diameter. The steep sides and front of these mounds may be up to 60 meters high (~180 feet). The study of rock glaciers is only about 100 years old, the first papers published on the phenomenon appearing in the 1900-1910s. But
Seismic hazard assessment of Campotosto, Italy phys.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from phys.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.