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ABSTRACT
The mapping of landforms in the Gulf of Naples is fundamental to understanding the recent evolution of this perithyrrenian basin controlled by several systems of Quaternary faults and characterised by the presence of the Campi Flegrei and Somma Vesuvius volcanoes. In this paper a 1:85,000 map of the recent evolution of the Gulf of Naples coasts is presented. This cartographic product has been obtained using a compilation of previously published geoarchaeological coastal studies integrated with new field data. The morphogenetic map suggests a differential evolution of various coastal stretches over the past 2000 years driven not only by measured vertical ground movements and eustatic sea-level rise (of 1 m) but also by eruptions of Mt. Vesuvius, in particular the Plinian eruption of 79 AD and the subsequent reworking of it’s products, as well as by the erosive action of the sea.
Acknowledgements
The authors sincerely thank Professor Francesco Giordano for his invaluable help during the marine surveys and interpretations of geophysical data, Dott. Mario Russo and Dott. Michele Stefanile for the archaeological interpretations. Sincere thanks are also due to Francesco Peluso, Luigi De Luca and Alberto Giordano of the Marine Geophysics Laboratory of DIST – Uniparthenope for their support during the marine surveys. The coastal LIDAR data used in this paper were kindly provided by the Ministry of the Environment in March 2013. Finally, we thank the reviewers for the critical remarks that improved both the paper and the map.
Disclosure statement
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.
ORCID
Gaia Mattei http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4582-3265
