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Two enigmatic ridges in the Pantelleria Vecchia Bank (NW Sicilian Channel) [PDF]
Heliyon, 2023 The Pantelleria Vecchia Bank is a submerged calcareous-arenitic shoal in the NW sector of the Sicilian Channel. Together with other morphological heights, some of which are volcanic in origin, this shoal punctuates the shallow Adventure Plateau, which ...
Emanuele Lodolo +2 more
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2014 Attempts to merge marine food webs and marine biogeochemical research have recently been developed in response to the need to understand how global change will impact marine ecosystems and resources (Salihoglu et al., 2013; Painting, et al., 2013). Among
Rosabruna La Ferla +5 more
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Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2022 The assessment of the vulnerability of a site to tsunami events should take into consideration the geomorphological setting, which is strongly determined by the stratigraphic framework of the area.
Salvatore Distefano +6 more
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Exploring the nature of the concentric half-rings in the Pantelleria Vecchia Bank (Sicilian Channel)
Social Sciences and Humanities OpenThe Pantelleria Vecchia Bank, a fascinating shoal in the Sicilian Channel, exhibits enigmatic underwater morphological and geological features. These have led to speculation about the possibility that this site may once have hosted an ancient settlement,
Emanuele Lodolo +2 more
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Post-LGM coastline evolution of the NW Sicilian Channel: Comparing high-resolution geophysical data with Glacial Isostatic Adjustment modeling. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2020 Since about 20,000 years ago, the geography of the Earth has been profoundly modified by the gradual sea-level rise caused by the melting of continental ice sheets. Flat areas and regions characterized by very low gradients experienced, more than others,
Lodolo E +5 more
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Journal of Marine Science and EngineeringIn submerged landscapes, distinguishing anthropogenic features versus natural ones is often challenging. We have developed a set of criteria to validate the identification of submerged anthropogenic remains that include examining the geological context ...
Ehud Galili +4 more
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Diversity, 2021 The study examined the extent of the cetacean strandings in Italy, with a particular focus on Sicily Island. The paper aimed to contribute to the description of a pattern that contemplates the “regular and rare” cetacean species passage along the ...
Sabrina Lo Brutto +3 more
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Improving the predictability of the Qendresa Medicane by the assimilation of conventional and atmospheric motion vector observations. Storm-scale analysis and short-range forecast [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2023 The coastal population in the western Mediterranean Basin is frequently affected by high-impact weather events that produce huge economic and human losses. Among the wide spectrum of maritime severe weather events, tropical-like Mediterranean cyclones (a.
D. S. Carrió +2 more
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Post-Messinian evolutionary relationships across the Sicilian channel: mitochondrial and nuclear markers link a new green toad from Sicily to African relatives. [PDF]
BMC Evol Biol, 2008 Background Little attention has been paid to the consequences of the last landbridge between Africa and Sicily on Mediterranean biogeography. Previous paleontological and scarce molecular data suggest possible faunal exchange later than the well ...
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Archivio Antropologico Mediterraneo, 2023 In a contemporaneity dominated by a prevailing visual culture, there is an urgent need to rethink how forms of resistance and cultural creativity are articulated according to such lexicons.
Andrea Buchetti
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