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    Letter: Sele H. Burgess to Ida M. Tarbell, July 2, 1920

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    Handwritten letter

    Depositional history and palaeogeographic reconstruction of sele coastal plain during magna grecia settlement of hera argiva (Southern Italy)

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    The Sele river coastal plain, located in Campania (southern Italy), is a broad subsiding area associated with rifting of the Tyrrhenian Sea. During the early Holocene, the fast sea-level rise led to a transgressive coastal system with landward shift of beach and marsh-lagoon deposits. During the late Holocene, the decrease of sea-level rise rate resulted in the coastal system progradation and lagoon infilling. Settlement of the sanctuary of Hera Argiva by Greeks, in the Sele coastal plain, occurred in 6 th century B.C. Reconstruction of environments at that time allows to locate the coastline 250 m landward with respect to the present. A coastal system comprising a beach and sand dune ridge was present, and extensive bogs and ponds were formed behind the dunes. The sanctuary founded on the levee of the Sele river at the edge of the marshes was surrounded by a natural garden with luxuriant vegetation. The presence of Myrtus plants perhaps introduced by man in the Hera Argiva garden is inferred

    Seismic vulnerability evaluation of Devil Bridge on Sele River

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    Object of the present study is the masonry bridge, still standing, built in 1871, by Eng. Fiocca, on Sele River, near Salerno. This bridge has a single semi-elliptic arch, spanning 55.00 m, with a rise of 13.55 m and a width of 5.40 m; in order to reduce the dead loads the inner tympani were lightened employing ring-like vaults. The first step of this research has been the study of the bridge static behaviour, deduced by the material survey of the existing structure, but also analyzing, verifying and enriching matters treated in the Report of Eng. Sacco, a Fiocca’s collaborator, in which all phases of Devil Bridge designing and building are fully described. The second step has been the evaluation of its seismic vulnerability: a three-dimensional finite element model has been implemented in ABAQUS code. To assess the bridge seismic capacity, non-linear pushover analyses have been carried out

    Depositional history and paleogeographic reconstruction on Sele coastal plain during Magna Grecia Settlement of Hera Argiva (Southern Italy)

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    The Sele river coastal plain, located in Campania (southern Italy), is a broad subsiding area associated with rifting of the Tyrrhenian Sea. During the early Holocene, the fast sea-level rise led to a transgressive coastal system with landward shift of beach and marsh-lagoon deposits. During the late Holocene, the decrease of sea-level rise rate resulted in the coastal system progradation and lagoon infilling. Settlement of the sanctuary of Hera Argiva by Greeks, in the Sele coastal plain, occurred in 6th century B.C. Reconstruction of environments at that time allows to locate the coastline 250 m landward with respect to the present. A coastal system comprising a beach and sand dune ridge was present, and extensive bogs and ponds were formed behind the dunes. The sanctuary founded on the levee of the Sele river at the edge of the marshes was surrounded by a natural garden with luxuriant vegetation. The presence of Myrtus plants perhaps introduced by man in the Hera Argiva garden is inferred

    Depositional history and paleogeographic reconstruction on Sele coastal plain during Magna Grecia Settlement of Hera Argiva (Southern Italy)

    No full text
    The Sele river coastal plain, located in Campania (southern Italy), is a broad subsiding area associated with rifting of the Tyrrhenian Sea. During the early Holocene, the fast sea-level rise led to a transgressive coastal system with landward shift of beach and marsh-lagoon deposits. During the late Holocene, the decrease of sea-level rise rate resulted in the coastal system progradation and lagoon infilling. Settlement of the sanctuary of Hera Argiva by Greeks, in the Sele coastal plain, occurred in 6th century B.C. Reconstruction of environments at that time allows to locate the coastline 250 m landward with respect to the present. A coastal system comprising a beach and sand dune ridge was present, and extensive bogs and ponds were formed behind the dunes. The sanctuary founded on the levee of the Sele river at the edge of the marshes was surrounded by a natural garden with luxuriant vegetation. The presence of Myrtus plants perhaps introduced by man in the Hera Argiva garden is inferred
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