... in Forest's onshore Caserta Block ( Figure 1 ). The nonseismic program was designed to provide permit-wide exploration reconnaissance at a cost comparable to that of a single 15-km seismic line. The goals of the nonseismic reconnaissance program were to identify prospective structural leads and optimize...

...-W ridge between Mt. S. Angelo Palomba and the castle of Cancello (Caserta) (cfr. figs. 1 and 2). This slope--which terminates in a series of (often rather steep) normal faults--is part of an essentially calcareous succession of carbonate platform facies and is covered by mainly continuous...

...Pio Di Girolamo; Italo Sgrosso; Roberto De Gennaro; Sandra Giurazzi Abstract This work describes for the first time outcrops of metamorphosed limestones ("Cipoline" and "Brecciated marbles") found at Mondragone, Caserta Province, Campania. These rocks are formed by blocks and olistoliths, up...

... combining different methods (X-ray diffraction [XRD]-Rietveld quantitative phase analysis [QPA] and QEMSCAN ® ) have been carried out on a limited number of samples from two of the bauxite districts of the Campania region: the Matese Mountains and the Caserta province. QEMSCAN ® analysis allowed a more...

... of similar experiments in other regions (e.g., Le Brun et al., 1999 ). The hill response was also tested by installing one more station on the top of the hill (site 4) that confirmed a local amplification by a factor of 2–3 around 3 Hz ( Caserta et al., 2000 ). In Figure 3 , the moderate amplification...

...). Building types present in the epicentral area have homogeneous characteristics typical of central Italian historical settlements, where most of the dwellings are built using simple stones with poor mortar, or nonreinforced squared stones and blocks ( Fig. 2 ). Furthermore, many old buildings are poorly...

...E. Boschi; A. Caserta; C. Conti; M. Di Bona; R. Funiciello; L. Malagnini; F. Marra; G. Martines; A. Rovelli; S. Salvi Abstract Most of ancient Rome was settled on the Tiber River Holocene flood plain. Monuments of Imperial age (I to V century) show evidence of significant damage, mainly produced...

... in the Sorrento Peninsula; A cocella & F uniciello (2006) reported transtensive and subordinately normal kinematics for one site (Caserta Mountains) on the northern margin of the Campania Plain. Nelle zone vulcaniche la variabilità spazio-temporale dei parametri di faglia può fornire indicazioni...

... be affected by nonlinear effects induced by the maximum expected earthquake. The first seismic ground motion recorded in the urban area of Rome (at the Vasca Navale array) corresponds to the April 2009 L’Aquila seismic sequence ( Caserta et al. , 2013 ). The empirical soil transfer function shows...

... orthogonal translational directions. Figure  4 shows an example of such a simulation using a cosine‐tapered harmonic signal of 5 Hz and peak accelerations from 1.0 to 5.0  m/s 2 . With a flat base underneath the monument block and a coefficient of static friction of 0.6, the translational ground motions...

..., which includes the Campanian plain and the Southern Apennine carbonatic mountains. Fig. 3. Drawings of the squat “fluosiderite” of Zambonini (1919) . At Fiano, unmetamorphosed to partly metamorphosed sedimentary carbonate blocks only coated by abundant fluorite frequently occur...

... 1990 ) and the memorial sculptures of Matres [“Mothers”] (Fig. 1 ) carved in chabazite-rich Campanian ignimbrite in the Caserta area (north of Naples) in 8th century B.C. ( Di Girolamo 1968 ; de’ Gennaro et al. 1984 ). Figure 1. Sculpture made of Campanian ignimbrite (8th century B.C...

... Ignimbrite events. The largest of such events occurred c. 39 ka ago ( De Vivo et al. 2001 ; Rolandi et al. 2003 ). The ignimbrite erupted along fractures related to intense block-faulting and rifting which took place on the western side of the Apennine Mts ( Torrente & Milia 2013 ). The alkaline...

... mentioned considered site response as a cause of the large motions. The possibility that the high ground motions were very localized was raised by Hovland et al. ( 1984 , p. 74) as a result of their survey of damage in the vicinity of the Coyote Lake Dam. Noting the lack of damage to concrete block...

..., #29 and #30 blue rose diagrams in fig. 5 ) a WNW-ESE direction prevails. Such results could be related to the existence of minor fractures fields or to the effects associated to blocks detached from the PiF cliff. It is indeed possible to observe a complex behavior of the results showed in fig. 6...

... shown between 3.5 and 14 m depth by the exemplificative borehole (number 067017P52) given in Figure  4d and drilled in the southern side of the hill. On the hill flanks, there are several flap debris composed of sharp travertine blocks and limestone cobbles in a sandy–silty matrix. Finally, similar...