The Seven Hills of Rome : A Geological Tour of the Eternal City

Autor: Grant Heiken, Renato Funiciello, Donatella de Rita

From humble beginnings, Rome became perhaps the greatest intercontinental power in the world. Why did this historic city become so much more influential than its neighbor, nearby Latium, which was peopled by more or less the same stock? Over the year

Geology of the Murcia Valley and Flood Plain Modifications in the Construction of theCircus Maximus, Rome, Italy

Autor: Elena Carpentieri, Giuseppe Della Monica, Donatella De Rita

Publikováno v: Geoarchaeology. 30:483-494

This paper presents a morphological and hydrogeological reconstruction of the Murcia Valley at the location of the great Roman stadium Circus Maximus in Rome. We reconstruct a valley segment using ERT (electrical resistivity tomography) and geoarchae

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https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.21533

Smart city and geology

Autor: Donatella De Rita

Publikováno v: Rendiconti online della Società Geologica Italiana. 33:35-39

The geology is one of the major factors that affect how a city grows and cause, in terms of the balance between resource and risk, the success or decline. When the use of the resource becomes excessive and it does not take more account of geological

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https://doi.org/10.3301/rol.2015.09

Crustal structure of Northern Latium (central Italy) from receiver functions analysis: New evidences of a post-collisional back-arc margin evolution

Autor: Mario Anselmi, Claudio Chiarabba, Fedora Quattrocchi, Mauro Buttinelli, Donatella De Rita, Irene Bianchi

Publikováno v: Tectonophysics. 621:148-158

The crustal velocity structure in a region of central Apennines of Italy at the hinge between the highly stretched portion of the Monte Argentario promontory and the magmatic province of the Tolfa Domes Complex (Northern Latium) is discussed in this

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2014.02.010

The environment of the Ethiopian highlands at the Mid Pleistocene Transition: Fauna, flora and hominins in the 850-700 ka sequence of Gombore II (Melka Kunture)

Autor: Donatella de Rita, Rita Teresa Melis, Margherita Mussi, Raymonde Bonnefille, Flavio Altamura

Publikováno v: Quaternary Science Reviews
Quaternary Science Reviews, 2016, 149, pp.259-268. ⟨10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.07.033⟩
Quaternary Science Reviews, Elsevier, 2016, 149, pp.259-268. ⟨10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.07.033⟩

International audience; Environment, climatic change and human evolution have been debated over the last 50 years giving special attention to the Plio-Pleistocene sites of the Rift Valley. In this paper we discuss the environment and the limits of ho

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https://hal.science/hal-01765506