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2. Evoluzione di sistemi deposizionali di piattaforma continentale durante il Pleistocene superiore - Olocene: analisi sedimentologica di due carote prelevate nel Mar Tirreno Meridionale
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Gabriele, LV, Sprovieri, M, Oliveri, E, Giaramita, L, AGATE, Mauro, INCARBONA, Alessandro, SULLI, Attilio, Gabriele, LV, Agate, M, Incarbona, A, Sprovieri, M, Oliveri, E, Giaramita, L, and Sulli, A
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sedimentologia, cambiamenti climatici, piattaforma continentale, tardo-Quaternario, Mar Tirreno meridionale ,Settore GEO/02 - Geologia Stratigrafica E Sedimentologica ,Settore GEO/01 - Paleontologia E Paleoecologia ,Settore GEO/08 - Geochimica E Vulcanologia - Abstract
E’ stato condotto uno studio sedimentologico di due carote prelevate nell’offshore della Sicilia settentrionale allo scopo di analizzare i cambiamenti di regime deposizionale verificatisi nel Pleistocene superiore - Olocene. Sulle due carote, provenienti dal Golfo di Termini Imerese (2,74 m di lunghezza, profondità -126 m) e dalla Baia di Carini (1,35 m di lunghezza, profondità -194 m), sono state anche eseguite analisi geochimiche e micropaleontologiche. Da un punto di vista granulometrico in entrambe le carote si può notare che la parte inferiore è principalmente costituita da una granulometria grossolana (ghiaia, ghiaia sabbiosa) che passa ad una granulometria di tipo argillo-siltosa nella parte superiore (Fig. 1). I risultati delle analisi geochimiche sugli elementi maggiori, minori ed in tracce (Al, Cd, Cr, Cu, Fe, Mn, Mo, Ni, Pb e Zn) mostrano significativi indici di correlazione tra alcuni degli elementi studiati e l’Alluminio, suggerendo un meccanismo comune per l’accumulo di questi elementi, probabilmente legato all’input terrigeno della frazione argillosa. Per entrambe le carote è stato elaborato un “modello-tempo” attraverso gli orizzonti ecobiostratigrafici riconosciuti nelle associazioni a nannofossili calcarei. L’età della base di entrambe le carote è riferibile alla parte sommitale dell’ultimo periodo glaciale (circa 16 ka BP; Fig.1); inoltre è stato possibile riconoscere le variazioni climatiche suborbitali della deglaciazione: Bølling-Allerød e Younger Dryas. Il cambiamento nel regime sedimentario sarebbe avvenuto a partire dalla base dell’Olocene (circa 11,6 ka BP). Una delle cause principali del cambiamento del sistema deposizionale è imputabile alle variazioni eustatiche. Il sollevamento del livello del mare avrebbe condotto l’iniziale ambiente di sedimentazione in posizione più distale, favorendo l’accumulo di sedimenti via via più fini fino alle attuali peliti di margine di piattaforma. È però possibile che anche il mutamento del manto vegetale avvenuto in Sicilia a causa del cambiamento climatico, ed in particolare la comparsa di una copertura arborea sviluppatasi nell’Olocene, possa aver influenzato la natura degli apporti sedimentari, attenuando l’erosione del suolo e riducendo gli apporti terrigeni. L’analisi della carota del Golfo di Termini indica che, durante la risalita del livello del mare, la sedimentazione lungo il margine della piattaforma è rimasta continua, registrando l’incremento batimetrico solamente col cambiamento tessiturale. L’assenza di lacune stratigrafiche e/o di una vera e propria sezione condensata può essere messa in relazione alla limitata estensione (< 10 km) ed elevata acclività (1°-2°) della piattaforma continentale, fattori che, a parità di sollevamento del livello marino, determinano una minore traslazione della linea di riva verso terra rispetto a piattaforme più ampie e meno acclivi dove invece è diffusa la presenza di lacune e sezioni condensate all’interno dei depositi trasgressivi.
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3. Eustatic and oceanographic control on sedimentary evolution of middle-late Quaternary shelf margin-to-upper slope deposits on the Egadi Islands offshore (Italy)
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AGATE, Mauro, Sprovieri, M, Passaro, S, Tamburrino, S, SULLI, Attilio, Vallefuoco, M, Giaramita, L, Placenti, F, Polizzi, S, Lo Iacono, C, INCARBONA, Alessandro, Agate, M, Sprovieri, M, Passaro, S, Tamburrino, S, Sulli, A, Vallefuoco, M, Giaramita, L, Placenti, F, Polizzi, S, Lo Iacono, C, and Incarbona, A
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Settore GEO/02 - Geologia Stratigrafica E Sedimentologica ,sea level change, contourites, submarine valley, Egadi islands, Quaternary - Abstract
During the past decades a number of sequence stratigraphy studies illustrated how, during Quaternary, interaction between sea level changes and sediment supply controlled the depositional evolution along continental margins, giving a cyclic signature to the sedimentary infilling. However, as both deposition and erosion are processes ultimately controlled by balance between environmental energy and sedimentary influx, also the oceanographic regime takes part in controlling the sedimentary growth along the continental margin. This is exactly what occurs on physiographic settings as islands offshore areas, where bottom currents can be very energetic. In the western Sicily offshore, southwards of Egadi Islands, the sea floor is characterized by depositional and erosional features formed under a variety of sedimentary processes and offers opportunity to investigate as sea level change and oceanographic regime combine each other to control depositional evolution. In this area, located along the clockwise flow of the Levantine Intermediate Water around the western Sicily margin, the sea floor morphology is very irregular as consequence of isolated reliefs and narrow submarine valleys, such as the Marettimo Valley which separates Favignana and Marettimo islands. We analysed and interpreted a grid of high-resolution (1 kJ Sparker) seismic reflection profiles integrated with multibeam bathy-morphologic data of selected areas; a 270 cm long gravity core has been also collected for sedimentology and biostratigraphy. The sedimentary succession accommodated along the eastern flank of the Marettimo Valley shows two different seismic units: unit A displays reflection-free seismic facies and thin, low- amplitude, inclined reflectors with downlap terminations onto the lower boundary, and erosional truncation at the upper boundary; these seismic facies are referable to oblique-tangential clinoforms and show a wedge-shaped external geometry. Unit B shows continuous, parallel, slightly concave reflectors and, towards the central sector of the Valley, continuous, sub-horizontal reflectors that form a deposit having a very broad low-mounded geometry; lateral transition in between concave and sub-horizontal reflectors is characterized by channelized erosional truncations. The two seismic units can be interpreted as the sedimentary response of different depositional processes: unit A accumulated by progradation of shallow-water deposits during eustatic forced-regression; unit B is referable to contourite drifts deposited by bottom currents through the Marettimo Valley. This unusual interbedding of very shallow water contouritic and shelf margin deposits derives from enhanced sedimentary dynamics during sea-level fall and lowstand stages when, as consequence of decreased water depth of the Marettimo Valley, bottom currents accelerated scouring channelized erosional surfaces; in the same time, deposition of forced regression across the shelf margin buried contourite drifts.
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- 2016
4. Attività di ricerca svolta per l'individuazione di sabbie relitte sulla piattaforma siciliana nell'area prospiciente il golfo di Gela
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Sprovieri M., Barra M., Buffa G., Buscaino C., Del Core M., Di Martino G., Falco F., Gherardi S., Giaramita L., Giorgi S., Innangi S., Oliveri E., Passaro S., Salvagio Manta D., Spagnolo C., Tamburrino S., Tonielli R., Traina A., Tranchida G., and Mazzola S.
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A seguito della stipula della convenzione "Progetto di ricerca finalizzato all'individuazione di sabbie relitte sulla piattaforma siciliana nell'area prospiciente il golfo di Gela" siglato in data 19 aprile 2012 tra il Commissario straordinario per l'attuazione degli interventi per la mitigazione del rischio idrologico nella regione siciliana previsti nell'accordo di programma siglato il 30.03.2010 e l'Istituto per l'Ambiente Marino Costiero del CNR è stato progettato e realizzato un survey geofisico mirato alla valutazione dei potenziali reservoir di sabbie relitte presenti nell'area al fine di garantire la reale comprensione delle potenzialità dei giacimenti sabbiosi da utilizzarsi come fonti di materia prima per il ripascimento dei litorali.
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- 2014
5. Coastal Benthic Forams as bio-indicators of environmental stress or pollution along the southern coasts of Sicily
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Musco, M., Cuttitta, A., Quinci, E., Tranchida, G., Giaramita, L., Salvagio Manta, D., Sprovieri, M., Sampino, G., Bicchi, E., and Mazzola, S.
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- 2013
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6. Successful treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma with transcatheter arterial embolization (TAE) with microspheres (Embosphere)
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Nicolini, A., Sangiovanni, A., Fasani, P., Forzenigo, L., Crespi, S., Giaramita, L., Romeo, R., Biondetti, P., and Colombo, M.
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- 2006
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7. Quality of life in asymptomatic adult celiac patients a case control study
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Segato, S., Giaramita, L., Chianese, G., Bonecco, S., Piana, S., and Parravicini, M.
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- 2006
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8. Marine pollution from shipwrecks at the sea bottom: A case study from the Mediterranean basin
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Sprovieri, M., Barra, M., Del Core, M., Di Martino, G., Giaramita, L., Gherardi, S., Innangi, S., Elvira Oliveri, Passaro, S., Romeo, T., Rumolo, P., Manta, D. S., Tamburrino, S., Tonielli, R., Traina, A., Tranchida, G., Vallefuoco, M., Mazzola, S., and Andaloro, F.
9. Are shipwrecks a real hazard for the ecosystem in the Mediterranean Sea?
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Daniela Salvagio, Valentina Esposito, Pietro Battaglia, Teresa Romeo, Franco Andaloro, Silvano Focardi, Cristiana Guerranti, Serena Gherardi, Luigi Giaramita, Monia Renzi, Guido Perra, Claudio Berti, Simonepietro Canese, Salvatore Giacobbe, Pierpaolo Consoli, Mario Sprovieri, Renzi, M., Romeo, T., Guerranti, C., Perra, G., Canese, S., Consoli, P., Focardi, S. E., Berti, C., Sprovieri, M., Gherardi, S., Salvagio, D., Giaramita, L., Esposito, V., Battaglia, P., Giacobbe, S., and Andaloro, F.
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0106 biological sciences ,Aquatic Organisms ,Geologic Sediments ,Maërl beds habitats ,Biodiversity ,trace elements ,010501 environmental sciences ,Aquatic Science ,Maërl beds habitat ,Oceanography ,01 natural sciences ,PAHs ,Lampedusa Island ,Pollution ,POPs, PAHs, trace elements ,Mediterranean Sea ,Water Pollution, Chemical ,Animals ,Ecosystem ,Marine ecosystem ,Maerl ,POPs ,Ships ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,Trophic level ,Ecology ,010604 marine biology & hydrobiology ,Lampedusa Island, Maërl beds habitats, Pollution, POPs PAHs trace elements, Oceanography, Aquatic Science, Pollution ,Fishes ,Ecological assessment ,POPs PAHs trace elements ,Fishery ,Habitat ,Italy ,Benthic zone ,Accidents ,Multivariate Analysis ,Environmental science - Abstract
The aim of the present study was to evaluate the hazard from shipwrecks on communities by a holistic approach taking into account different effects on biological communities. Multibeam and Remotely Operated Vehicles surveys recorded ecological assessment of fish and benthic species on three shipwrecks flooded during the Second World War on Maerl beds habitats in the strait of Sicily. Pollution levels of a wide range of chemicals of ecotoxicological concern were also measured in sediments and in fish species from different trophic levels. Statistical analysis evidenced significant differences among pollutant levels between both sediments and fish collected in shipwreck sites and controls. Concerning fish, significant effects due to the vessel's cargo type and flooding position are recorded. In spite of that, our results underline that shipwrecks are also a hotspots of biodiversity and a habitat for preservation strategies in marine ecosystems that need to be monitored.
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- 2017
10. A chemical remediation technique for a nearly-total removal of arsenic and mercury from contaminated marine sediments.
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D'Agostino F, Bellante A, Bonsignore M, Del Core M, Clarizia L, Sabatino N, Giaramita L, Tranchida G, Chiavarini S, and Sprovieri M
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After decades of industrial exploitation of the coast and consequent contamination of the sites and marine sediments, it became essential to recover the marine ecosystem by remediation methods to remove toxic contaminants. In this work, a remediation method was developed to clean marine sediments contaminated by arsenic (As) and mercury (Hg). The method can be applied to mobile platforms and is based on an environmentally friendly approach designed to minimise further contamination. The method was tested on two artificially contaminated sediments and two real samples collected from two highly contaminated sites in southern Italy, Augusta Bay and Bagnoli Gulf, characterised by high Hg and As concentrations, respectively. The method consists of four steps: washing with sodium hydroxide (NaOH) to remove metals associated with humic acid; Fenton-reaction using α-CycloDextrin (aCD) to stabilise Fe(II) at natural pH and oxidise As (III) and Hg (0 or I); complexation reaction with aCD; and complexation with sodium sulfide (Na
2 S) to remove Hg as soluble Hg-polysulfides. Compared to other remediation experiences in literature, this technique provides the best removal efficiency for As and Hg (ranging between 26 -71 % and 57-95 %, respectively). Considering the residual concentrations of As and Hg and the contamination threshold fixed by European Regulation for re-use, the treated sediment can be used in several civil and industrial contexts. The presented method operates in line with the principles of the circular economy to preserve natural resources, prevent secondary pollution, and promote the effective re-use of clean environmental matrices (soils, sediments and aqueous solutions), thus minimising landfill waste., Competing Interests: The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper., (© 2023 The Authors.)- Published
- 2023
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11. Marine pollution in the Libyan coastal area: Environmental and risk assessment.
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Bonsignore M, Salvagio Manta D, Al-Tayeb Sharif EA, D'Agostino F, Traina A, Quinci EM, Giaramita L, Monastero C, Benothman M, and Sprovieri M
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- Animals, Chemical Industry, Humans, Libya, Mediterranean Sea, Risk Assessment, Seawater chemistry, Environmental Monitoring methods, Fishes metabolism, Geologic Sediments chemistry, Metals, Heavy analysis, Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons analysis, Water Pollutants, Chemical analysis
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A comprehensive assessment of the potential adverse effects on environment and human health generated by the inputs of chemicals from the most important Libyan petrochemical plant is presented. Ecotoxicological risk associated with the presence of As, Hg, Ni, Zn and PAHs in marine sediments is low or moderate, with a probability of toxicity for ecosystem <9% and <20% for heavy metals and PAHs respectively. However, surface sediments result strongly enriched in Hg and As of anthropogenic origin. Investigation of metals in fish allowed to assess potential risks for human populations via fish intake. Target hazard quotients values indicate potential risk associated to toxic metals exposure by fish consumption and lifetime cancer risk (TR) values highlight a potential carcinogen risk associated to As intake. Noteworthy, the presented results provide an unprecedented environmental dataset in an area where the availability of field data is very scant, for a better understanding of anthropogenic impacts at Mediterranean scale., (Copyright © 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.)
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- 2018
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12. Are shipwrecks a real hazard for the ecosystem in the Mediterranean Sea?
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Renzi M, Romeo T, Guerranti C, Perra G, Canese S, Consoli P, Focardi SE, Berti C, Sprovieri M, Gherardi S, Salvagio D, Giaramita L, Esposito V, Battaglia P, Giacobbe S, and Andaloro F
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- Accidents, Animals, Aquatic Organisms physiology, Ecosystem, Italy, Mediterranean Sea, Multivariate Analysis, Biodiversity, Fishes physiology, Geologic Sediments analysis, Ships, Water Pollution, Chemical analysis
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The aim of the present study was to evaluate the hazard from shipwrecks on communities by a holistic approach taking into account different effects on biological communities. Multibeam and Remotely Operated Vehicles surveys recorded ecological assessment of fish and benthic species on three shipwrecks flooded during the Second World War on Maërl beds habitats in the strait of Sicily. Pollution levels of a wide range of chemicals of ecotoxicological concern were also measured in sediments and in fish species from different trophic levels. Statistical analysis evidenced significant differences among pollutant levels between both sediments and fish collected in shipwreck sites and controls. Concerning fish, significant effects due to the vessel's cargo type and flooding position are recorded. In spite of that, our results underline that shipwrecks are also a hotspots of biodiversity and a habitat for preservation strategies in marine ecosystems that need to be monitored., (Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.)
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13. Benthic Foraminifera as bio-indicators of anthropogenic impacts in coastal environments: Acqua dei Corsari area case study (Palermo, Italy).
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Musco M, Cuttitta A, Bicchi E, Quinci EM, Sprovieri M, Tranchida G, Giaramita L, Traina A, Salvagio Manta D, Gherardi S, Mercurio P, Siragusa A, and Mazzola S
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- Italy, Mediterranean Sea, Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons analysis, Trace Elements analysis, Water Pollutants, Chemical analysis, Environmental Monitoring, Foraminifera, Geologic Sediments analysis
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This study investigates living benthic foraminiferal assemblages as bio-indicators of anthropogenic activities in a coastal area within the Gulf of Palermo (Sicily, Italy), affected by industrial and urban activities, and evaluates the environmental quality through the calibration of a Tolerant Species index (%TS
std ). Sediments from 6 stations were sampled along a bathymetric transect from the coast to offshore. Sediment grain size, TOC, major, minor and trace elements and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) were compared to benthic foraminiferal assemblages and species at each station. Diversity and density of benthic foraminiferal assemblages were not affected by the presence of pollutants, while tolerant species increased with organic (TOC and PAHs) or chemical (As and Pb) concentrations. Moreover, the calibration of the %TSstd formula to >125μm foraminiferal assemblage, gives a detailed description of environmental quality along the transect, representing a good and sensitive tool to evaluate marine coastal environment., (Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.)- Published
- 2017
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