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Landslide Susceptibility Maps in the Rock Slopes of the Ventotene Island (Latium, Italy)

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Engineering Geology for Society and Territory - Volume 2

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The paper illustrates an application of the Matheson test, implemented in GIS environment, to the cliffs of the volcanic island of Ventotene (Pontine Archipelago, Italy). Starting from detailed field study and geo-structural analysis, four failure mechanisms were considered for the analysis (planar sliding, wedge failure, flexural toppling, and block toppling), and a susceptibility map was produced as a cartographic representation of the rock failures affecting the cliffs around the island.

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  1. IdroGeo Srl, Vico Equense, Italy

    Ivano Caso, Raffaele D’Angelo, Biagio Palma & Anna Ruocco

  2. CNR-IRPI, Bari, Italy

    Mario Parise

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  1. Ivano Caso
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  2. Raffaele D’Angelo
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  5. Anna Ruocco
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Correspondence to Biagio Palma .

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Inst. for Geo-hydrological Protection, National Research Council (CNR), Turin, Italy

    Giorgio Lollino

  2. Inst. for Geo-hydrological Protection, National Research Council (CNR), Turin, Italy

    Daniele Giordan

  3. Dept. of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Milan Bicocca, Milan, Italy

    Giovanni B. Crosta

  4. Dept. of Geotechn. Engin. & Geosciences, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

    Jordi Corominas

  5. Dept. of Engin. Geology and Hydrogeology, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

    Rafig Azzam

  6. Inst. for Geo-hydrological Protection, National Research Council (CNR), Bari, Italy

    Janusz Wasowski

  7. University G. D'Annunzi Chieti Pescara, Chieti, Italy

    Nicola Sciarra

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Caso, I., D’Angelo, R., Palma, B., Parise, M., Ruocco, A. (2015). Landslide Susceptibility Maps in the Rock Slopes of the Ventotene Island (Latium, Italy). In: Lollino, G., et al. Engineering Geology for Society and Territory - Volume 2. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09057-3_163

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