Abstract

The southern part of the region (the Salento peninsula) had hosted in the last twenty years at least fifteen events of sinkholes, the greatest part of which occurred inside "soft" carbonate rocks (calcarenites). The man - made and/or natural cavities are sometime assets of historical and archaeological significance. This paper provide a methodological approach related to the evaluation of sinkhole hazard in "soft" carbonate rocks combing seismic and mine engineering complementary methods. A case study is exposed which concern natural cavity named "Grotta delle Veneri". In this case the approach was: i) 2D and 3D seismic method in order to study the physical-mechanical characteristic of rock mass that constitute the roof of the cave; ii) the scaled span empirical analysis in order to evaluate the instability of the crown pillar's caves.

Autore Pugliese

• Leucci Giovanni , De Giorgi Lara

Tutti gli autori

• Leucci G.; De Giorgi L.

Titolo volume/Rivista

Central European Journal of Geosciences

Anno di pubblicazione

2015

ISSN

1896-1517

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