Speleogenesis in highly geodynamic contexts: The quaternary evolution of monte corchia multi-level karst system (alpi apuane, italy)

Geomorphology

Volumn 134, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 49-61

  Piccini, Leonardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alpi Apuane; Cave morphology; Karst; Morphometric analysis; Speleogenesis

Indexed keywords

CAVE; GEODYNAMICS; GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE; KARST; MORPHOMETRY; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; QUATERNARY; SPELEOLOGY; SPELEOTHEM; VADOSE ZONE;

APENNINES; APUANE ALPS; ITALY; TUSCANY;

EID: 80052914023     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.06.005     Document Type: Article

References (57)

1. Anthony D.M., Granger D.E. A new chronology for the age of Appalachian erosional surfaces determined by cosmogenic nuclides in cave sediments. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 2007, 32:874-887.
2. Balestrieri M.L., Bernet M., Brandon M.T., Picotti V., Reiners P., Zattin M. Pliocene and Pleistocene exhumation of two key areas of the Northern Apennines. Quaternary International 2003, 101-102:67-73.
3. Bartolini C. When did the Northern Apennine become a mountain chain?. Quaternary International 2003, 101-102:75-80.
4. Berzi A. Antro del Corchia o Buca d'Eolo (n. 120 I) Alpi Apuane. Le Grotte d'Italia 1934, 8:35-37.
5. Boccaletti M., Capitani S., Coli M., Fornace G., Gosso G., Grandini G., Milano P.F., Moratti G., Nafissi P., Sani F. Caratteristiche deformative delle Alpi Apuane Settentrionali. Memorie Società Geologica Italiana 1983, 26:527-534.
6. Capozzi R., Picotti V. Pliocene sequence stratigraphy, climatic trends and sapropel formation in the Northern Apennines (Italy). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 2003, 190:349-371.
7. Carmignani L., Giglia R. Il problema della doppia vergenza sulle Alpi Apuane e la struttura del M. Corchia. Memorie Società Geologica Italiana 1983, 26:515-525.
8. Carmignani L., Giglia G. "Autoctono Apuano" e Falda Toscana: sintesi dei dati e interpretazioni più recenti. Società Geologica Italiana 1984, 199-214. Edizioni Pitagora, Bologna, vol. Giubilare.
9. Carmignani L., Kligfield R. Crustal extension in the Northern Apennines: the transition from compression to extension in the Alpi Apuane Core Complex. Tectonics 1990, 9:1275-1303.
10. Casoli C. Studi di idrogeologia carsica - 1° - Considerazioni sulle diramazioni fossili presso quota -270 nell'Antro del Corchia (Alpi Apuane - Lucca). Atti Società Toscana di Scienze Naturali, Memorie, serie A 1973, 80:282-303.
11. Coltorti M. Geomorphological evolution of a karst-area subjected to neotectonic movements in the Umbria-Marche Apennines (Italy). Proc. VIII International Congress of Speleology 1981, 84-88. Bowling-Green, Kentucky.
12. Coltorti M., Pieruccini P., Rustioni M. The Barga Basin (Tuscany): a record of Plio-Pleistocene mountain building of the Northern Apennines, Italy. Quaternary International 2008, 189:56-70.
13. Conti P., Di Pisa A., Gattiglio M., Meccheri M. The pre-Alpine basement in the Alpi Apuane (Northern Apennines, Italy). Pre-Mesozoic Geology in the Alps 1993, 609-621. J.F. Von Raumer, F. Neubauer (Eds.).
14. Curl R.L. Deducing flow velocity in cave conduits from scallops. Bulletin of National Speleological Society 1974, 26(2):33-38.
15. De Waele J., Piccini L. Speleogenesi e morfologia dei sistemi carsici in rocce carbonatiche. Atti 45° Corso SSI "Geomorfologia carsica" 2008, 23-74.
16. Dreybrodt W., Siemers J. Cave evolution on two-dimensional networks of primary fractures in limestone. Evolution of Karst Aquifers 2000, 201-211. National Speleological Society, Huntsville, Alabama. National Speleological Society. A.B. Klimchouk, D.C. Ford, A.N. Palmer, W. Dreybrodt (Eds.).
17. Drysdale R., Zanchetta G., Hellstrom J., Fallick A.E., Zhao J.X., Isola I., Bruschi G. The palaeoclimatic significance of a Middle to Late Pleistocene stalagmite from the Alpi Apuane karst, central-western Italy. Earth Planetary Science Letters 2004, 227:215-229.
18. Drysdale R.N., Zanchetta G., Hellstrom J., Maas R., Fallick A.E., McDonald J., Cartwright I. Stalagmite evidence for the precise timing of the north Atlantic cold events during Marine Isotope Stage 5d. Geology 2007, 35:77-80.
19. Drysdale R.N., Hellstrom J., Zanchetta G., Fallick A.E., Sanchez-Goni I., Couchoud I., McDonald R., Mass R., Lohmann G., Isola I. Evidence for obliquity forcing of glacial termination II. Science 2009, 325:1527-1531.
20. Fallani F., Piccini L. Pianta generale del Complesso Carsico del Monte Corchia. Suppl. a Talp - Rivista della Federazione Speleologica Toscana 1990, 2.
21. Fellin M.G., Reiners P.W., Brandon M.T., Wütrich E., Balestrieri M.L., Molli G. Thermochronologic evidences for the exhumation history of the Alpi Apuane metamorphiccore complex, northern Apennines, Italy. Tectonics 2007, 26:TC6015. 10.1029/2006TC002085.
22. Filipponi M., Jeannin P.Y., Tacher L. Evidence of inception horizons in karst conduit networks. Geomorphology 2009, 106:86-99.
23. Fish L. http://www.fountainware.com.
24. Ford D., Williams P. Karst Hydrogeology and Geomorphology 2007, 562. Wiley, Chichester.
25. Häuselmann P., Jeannin P.-Y., Monbaron M., Lauritzen S.-E. Reconstruction of Alpine Cenozoic paleorelief through the analysis of caves at Siebenhengste (BE, Switzerland). Geodinamica Acta 2002, 15:261-276.
26. Haüselmann P., Jeannin P.-Y., Monbaron M. Role of epiphreatic flow and soutirages in conduit morphogenesis: the Bärenschacht example (BE, Switzerland). Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie 2003, 47:171-190.
27. Kastning E.H. Relict caves as evidence of landscape and aquifer evolution in a deeply dissected carbonate terrain: southern Edwards Plateau, Texas, U.S.A. Journal of Hydrology 1983, 61:89-112.
28. Kligfield R., Hunziker J., Dallmeyer R.D., Schamel S. Dating of deformational phases using K-Ar and 40Ar/39Ar techniques: results from the Northern Apennines. Journal of Structural Geology 1986, 8:781-798.
29. Klimchouk A., Ford D. Lithologic and structural controls of dissolutional cave development. Speleogenesis 2000, 54-64. Evolution of Karst Aquifers, National Speleological Society, Huntsville, Alabama. A.B. Klimchouk, D.C. Ford, A.N. Palmer, W. Dreybrodt (Eds.).
30. Lauritzen S.E. Scallop dominant discharge. Proc. of 10th International Congress of Speleology, Budapest, Hungary 1989, 123-124.
31. Lowe D.J. Role of stratigraphic element in speleogenesis: the speleoinception concept. Speleogenesis 2000, 65-76. Evolution of Karst Aquifers, National Speleological Society. A.B. Klimchouk, D.C. Ford, A.N. Palmer, W. Dreybrodt (Eds.).
32. Marchetti M. Grotte delle Alpi Apuane. Le Grotte d'Italia 1930, 4:237-246.
33. Ottria G., Molli G. Superimposed brittle structures in the late-orogenic extension of the Northern Apennine: results from the Carrara area (Alpi Apuane, NW Tuscany). Terra Nova 2000, 12:52-59.
34. Palmer A.N. Cave levels and their interpretation. The National Speleological Society Bulletin 1987, 49:50-66.
35. Palmer A.N. Origin and morphology of limestone caves. Geological Society of America Bulletin 1991, 103:1-21.
36. Palmer A.N. Cave Geology 2007, 445. Cave Books, Dayton, Ohio.
37. Palmer A.N., Audra P. Patterns of caves. Encyclopedia of Caves and Karst Science 2004, 573-575. Fitzroy Dearborn, New York. J. Gunn (Ed.).
38. Pasini G. L'esplorazione dell'Antro del Corchia nelle Alpi Apuane (profondità m 805). Le Grotte d'Italia 1960, 3:170-178.
39. Piccini L. Ipotesi sulla origine e sulla evoluzione del Complesso Carsico del Monte Corchia. Atti VI° Congresso Federazione Speleologica Toscana, Stazzema (Lucca) 1991, 59-82.
40. Piccini L. Caratteri morfologici ed evoluzione dei fenomeni carsici profondi nelle Alpi Apuane (Toscana - Italia). Natura Bresciana, Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali Brescia 1994, 30:45-85.
41. Piccini L. Evolution of karst in the Alpi Apuane (Italy): relationships with the morphotectonic history. Suppl. Geografia Fisica e Dinamica Quaternaria 1998, III-4:21-31.
42. Piccini L. Acquiferi carbonatici e sorgenti carsiche delle Alpi Apuane. Atti Convegno -Le risorse idriche sotterranee dele Alpi Apuane: conoscenze attuali e prospettive di utilizzo" 2002, 41-76. Forno (Massa).
43. Piccini L. Recent developments on morphometric analysis of karst caves. Acta Carsologica 2011, 40(1):43-52.
44. Piccini L., Drysdale R., Heijnis H. Karst caves morphology and sediments as indicators of the uplift history in the Alpi Apuane (Tuscany, Italy). Quaternary International 2003, 101-102:219-227.
45. Piccini L., Drysdale R., Zanchetta G., Isola I., Bruschi G. I depositi fisici e chimici delle grotte delle Alpi Apuane. Memoria 2005, 18, serie II:71-87. Istituto Italiano di Speleologia.
46. Piccini L., Iandelli N. Tectonic uplift, sealevel changes and the evolution of a coastal karst system: the St. Paul karst (Palawan, Phlippines). Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 2011, 36:594-609.
47. Piccini L., Zanchetta G., Drysdale R., Hellstrom J., Isola I., Fallick A.E., Leone G., Doveri M., Mussi M., Mantelli F., Molli G., Lotti L., Roncioni A., Regattieri E., Meccheri M., Vaselli L. The environmental features of the Monte Corchia cave system (Alpi Apuane, central Italy) and their effects on speleothem growth. International Journal of Speleology 2008, 37:153-172.
48. Simi E. Relazione del Monte Corchia, con una memoria sulla costituzione geologica dei Monti Pietrasantini del Prof. Cav. Paolo Savi 1847, Tipografia Frediani, Massa.
49. Sinclair D.S. Report on the "Antro del Corchia" 1967, 15-21. Derbyshire Caving Club.
50. Sivelli M., Vianelli M. Abissi delle Alpi Apuane 1982, Società Speleologica Italiana, Bologna.
51. Strasser M., Strasser A., Pelz K., Seyfried H. A mid Miocene to early Pleistocene multi-level cave as a gauge for tectonic uplift of the Swabian Alb (Southwest, Germany). Geomorphology 2008, 106:130-141.
52. Skrivanek F. Geological and geomorphological investigation of the system of caves and chasms Antro del Corchia, Italy 1964, 95-107. Ceskonlovensky Kras, Praha.
53. Williams P.W. Speleothem dates, Quaternary terraces and uplift rates in New Zealand. Nature 1982, 298:257-260.
54. Woodhead J., Hellstrom J., Maas R., Drysdale R., Zanchetta G., Devine P., Taylor E. U-Pb geochronology of speleothems by MC-ICPMS. Quaternary Geochronology 2006, 1:208-221.
55. Woodward E., Sasowsky I.D. A spreadsheet program (Scallopex) to calculate paleovelocities from cave wall scallops. Acta Carsologica 2009, 38:303-305.
56. Zanchetta G., Drysdale R.N., Hellstrom J.C., Fallick A.E., Isola I., Gagan M., Pareschi M.T. Enhanced rainfall in the western Mediterranean during deposition of Sapropel S1: stalagmite evidence from Corchia Cave (Central Italy). Quaternary Science Reviews 2007, 26:279-286.
57. Zanchetta G., Isola I., Piccini L., Dini A. The Corchia Cave (Alpi Apuane): a 2Ma long temporal window on Earth climate. Field Trip Guidebook. 85° Congresso Nazionale Società Geologica Italiana 2010, 74. Edizioni Campano, Pisa.