A review on natural and human-induced geohazards and impacts in karst

F Gutiérrez, M Parise, J De Waele, H Jourde - Earth-Science Reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
Karst environments are characterized by distinctive landforms related to dissolution and a
dominant subsurface drainage. The direct connection between the surface and the …

Spatial modeling of land subsidence using machine learning models and statistical methods

MA Sekkeravani, O Bazrafshan… - … Science and Pollution …, 2022 - Springer
Land subsidence causes many problems every year and damages residential areas and
agricultural lands. The purpose of this study is to prepare a susceptibility map to the …

Sinkhole hazards

F Gutiérrez - Oxford research encyclopedia of natural hazard …, 2016 - oxfordre.com
Sinkholes or dolines are closed depressions characteristic of terrains underlain by soluble
rocks (carbonates and/or evaporites). They may be related to the differential dissolutional …

Investigation of land-subsidence phenomenon and aquifer vulnerability using machine models and GIS technique

A Ghasemi, O Bahmani, S Akhavan, HR Pourghasemi - Natural Hazards, 2023 - Springer
In this study, a land-subsidence vulnerability map has been prepared using Machine
Learning (ML) models fusing, Random Forest (RF), Support Vector Machine (SVM) and a …

Hydro-stratigraphic conditions and human activity leading to development of a sinkhole cluster in a Mediterranean water ecosystem

S Margiotta, G Marini, S Fay, FM D'Onghia, IS Liso… - Hydrology, 2021 - mdpi.com
Salento Peninsula (Apulia, southern Italy) is characterised by many active sinkholes, which
represent the main geological hazard. The stretch of coastline between the village of …

Fault-controlled upwelling of low-T hydrothermal fluids tracked by travertines in a fold-and-thrust belt, Monte Alpi, Southern Apennines, Italy

L Smeraglia, A Giuffrida, S Grimaldi, A Pullen… - Journal of Structural …, 2021 - Elsevier
Active faults within the southern Apennines fold-and-thrust belt modulate the present-day
upwelling of hydrothermal fluids at surface. In the Monte Alpi area, we investigated the …

A chronological database about natural and anthropogenic Sinkholes in Italy

C Vennari, M Parise - Geosciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Sinkholes are a widespread geological hazard, typical of karst lands, where they generally
originate as collapse features related to presence of underground voids. Nevertheless, other …

Assessing mantle versus crustal sources for non-volcanic degassing along fault zones in the actively extending southern Apennines mountain belt (Italy)

A Ascione, G Ciotoli, S Bigi, J Buscher… - GSA …, 2018 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The actively extending axial zone of the southern Apennine mountain belt of Italy is
characterized by a substantial flow of non-volcanic gas to the surface. In this study, we have …

Machine learning for sinkhole risk mapping in Guidonia-Bagni di Tivoli plain (Rome), Italy

S Bianchini, P Confuorto, E Intrieri, P Sbarra… - Geocarto …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This work presents a sinkhole susceptibility and risk assessment mapping in Guidonia-
Bagni di Tivoli plain (Italy), a travertine sinkhole-prone area where sudden occurrences of …

Geotechnical reconnaissance of an extensive cover-collapse sinkhole phenomena of 2020–2021 Petrinja earthquake sequence (Central Croatia)

I Tomac, B Kovačević Zelić, D Perić… - Earthquake …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
This article presents geotechnical reconnaissance data that characterize the formation of
122 new and 49 historical cover-collapse sinkholes within 1.13 km2 area in 12 months …