Deep gravitational slope deformations (DsGSDs) are a geological and engineering challenge with important implications for slope stability, the reliability of existing infrastructures, land use and, above all, the safety of settlements. This paper focuses on the DsGSD phenomenon that affects a large part of the Borrano hamlet, located in the municipality of Civitella del Tronto (Abruzzo Region, …
Rainfall is one of the major causes of geological hazards such as landslides and slope failures because it decreases shear strength along the failure surface and increases the driving force of the sliding mass due to the movement of the wetting front in the geological media. Deterministic limit equilibrium methods are typically used to evaluate the stability of slopes in terms of Factor of Safe…
This study presents the first direct cosmogenic 36Cl-based chronology of landscape evolution and ground deformation in the Ionian Islands, focusing on the Thinia Valley in northern Kefalonia, western Greece. At the Zola site, exposure ages indicate that the eastern limb of the associated anticline has undergone intermittent deformation since at least 34 ka, with ongoing exhumation still occurri…
The electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) method has been increasingly integrated with hydrogeological risk mitigation strategies to monitor the internal conditions and the stability of natural and artificial slopes. In this paper, we discuss a case study in which numerical simulations were essential to validate the interpretation of the resistivity images obtained from an ERT monitoring syst…
In the course of engineering geological ground characterizations, internal structures of sediments are often simplified to continuous units and structures like lenses are drawn in cross sections based on geologists’ experience. Seeing this as oversimplifications, we propose discrete sediment body (DSB) modelling which is a computational workflow that permits generation of 3D meshes of sedimen…