Abstract
Montescaglioso village is located in southern Italy (Matera, Basilicata region), on a hill top, at about 350 m a.s.l., along the left bank of the Bradano River. Several landslides involved this area, some of them classified as relict; the latest one occurred on December 3rd, 2013 on the south-western slope of Montescaglioso hill. A review of the geological setting of this slope is presented, aimed at defining the failure mechanism of the slope. Sub-pixel cross-correlation analysis based on SAR images was performed to infer the co-failure displacement pattern and A-DInSAR was carried out to detect the spatial-temporal deformational pattern before and after the failure. The field surveys confirmed the main role played by geological setting in structurally constraining the landslide mechanism and its complex kinematic, featured by three main distinct “kinematic blocks” with different direction of movement. The 3rd December landslide has been recognized as a partial reactivation along a slope affected by a long-lasting sequence of landslides, the last one triggered by a transient action.
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The Authors would like to thank the Italian Space Agency (ASI) for providing the COSMO-SkyMed SAR images used in this study.
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Bozzano, F. et al. (2017).
Mechanism of the Montescaglioso Landslide (Southern Italy) Inferred by Geological Survey and Remote Sensing.
In: Mikos, M., Tiwari, B., Yin, Y., Sassa, K. (eds) Advancing Culture of Living with Landslides. WLF 2017. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53498-5_12
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