Publication Date:
2017-04-04
Description:
In ancient times, the name “Peloro” was used to indicate an anthropic area that gradually developed around
the first known human settlement on the Sicilian shore near the Straits of Messina. Since the 5th century BC,
historians have documented that numerous naval armadas landed for long periods at Peloro. However, the
present-day morphology of the Peloro Cape Peninsula does not have any protected inlet that would offer a
location to repair hundreds of ships, as has been documented by historical sources. To address this
discrepancy, geomorphologic data were collected and analyzed to verify whether historical documents were
consistent with the palaeotopography of the area. This approach is based on the analysis of the
morphotectonic evolution of the coastal lowland that resulted from regional uplift over the Quaternary
and Holocene. The results indicate that the harbour was located in the basin of the Pantano Piccolo salt
marsh, and was large and deep enough to have sheltered up to 320 ships.
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Published
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38-46
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3.3. Geodinamica e struttura dell'interno della Terra
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JCR Journal
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reserved
Keywords:
Straits of Messina
;
Pantano Piccolo sault march
;
Morphotectonic
;
Palaeotopography modeling
;
04. Solid Earth::04.07. Tectonophysics::04.07.02. Geodynamics
Repository Name:
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
Type:
article
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