MICHELE DELCHIARO

Dottore di ricerca

ciclo: XXXIII


supervisore: Marta Della Seta
relatore: Marta Della Seta
co-supervisore: Marta Della Seta

Titolo della tesi: Time-dependent rock-mass deformations, geological aging and landscape evolution as predisposing factors for large rock landslide triggering

The slope time-dependent deformations are usually related to Mass Rock Creep (MRC) process that acts on a large time-space scale through a continuous and non-linear variation of the tensile-deformational state of entire portions of slopes. Such processes are related to large gravitational stresses acting on steep mountain slopes but might also be accelerated by rapid fluvial downcutting, glacial debuttressing (the exposure of glacially steepened rock walls, due to the down wastage and retreat of glacier ice), and seismic activity. In this regard, it is also strongly conditioned by the tectonics and the evolution of the drainage network. Indeed, both uplift and the morphoevolution kinematically release portions of slopes isolating a rock mass carapace that starts to deform by the MRC process until collapse. The limit of these theoretical schemes is represented by the difficulty of estimating accurately the starting time of the process, discriminating the distinct phases, as well as determining the viscosity of the rocky matrix, one of the most important component in the system. In this regard, the general objective of my research is to isolate the contribute of geological aging (intended as the time-evolution of morphostructures in the direction of propagation of the orogen from the hinterland to the foreland), and of landscape evolution in the development of MRC-driven time-dependent deformations. However, the specific objective is to demonstrate the relationships among the aforementioned factors through a methodological test along a transept oriented parallel to direction of the morphostructures in Lorestan, in the Zagros Mountains (Iran) from NE (older geological age) to SW (younger geological age). The thesis is structured as follows: 1) Introduction: MRC-driven instabilities and conditioning factors: Bibliographic study of predisposing, preparatory and triggering factors that influence the deformational process with particular regard to landscape evolution, geological aging and stratigraphy highlighting the goal of the research: a transpositive analysis of MRC current processes in space and time along a transept oriented in the propagation direction of the Zagros chain (NE-SW). 2)Geological aging and deformation style of Lorestan region (Zagros Mountains): Geological setting of the Zagros orogen and validation of the starting ergodic model through the reconstruction of the tectonic evolution and of the deformation style of the Lorestan folds as well as of its geomorphic response in the landscape obtained by applying terrain analyses. 3) Landslide Inventory and sensitivity analysis: In order to evaluate the sensitivity of the slopes to the MRC conditioning factors and to calibrate the landscape evolution models, I built an inventory of landslides, in which I distinguished the occurred and ongoing instabilities in shear driven landslides (rockfalls, earth/rock slides, and earth/debris flows), and creep-driven ones (viscous slidings, flexural topplings, rock avalanches, slope-scale deformations, and lateral spreadings). 4) Case studies: 4.1) Loumar creep driven slide: This research focused on the Loumar instability that affects the NE slope of the Gavar anticline whose evolution is strictly related to the vertical and lateral growth of the fold and to the evolution of the Seymareh river drainage system. In this regard, I inferred the Quaternary tectonic and landscape evolution of the Gavar fold, as well as the chronology of the events that led to the gravitational deformation, through linear temporal conversion of river longitudinal profiles, geomorphometric and remote analysis, field surveying, and OSL dating. 4.2) The giant Seymareh rock avalanche: It was used optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) to date lacustrine and fluvial terrace sediments, whose plano-altimetric distribution has been correlated to the detectable knickpoints along the Seymareh River longitudinal profile, allowing the reconstruction of the evolutionary model of the fluvial valley. I infer that the knickpoint migration along the main river and the erosion wave propagation upstream through the whole drainage network caused the stress release and the ultimate failure of the rock mass involved in the landslide. 4.3) Siah-kuh spreading deformation\\ The ongoing gravitational deformation affects the SE slope of the Siah-kuh anticline in its SE periclinal tip and is strictly related to the evolution of the of Dowairij River drainage system. River incision originated a stress release at the bottom of the slope which likely caused the initiation of the deformational process. In this regard, I present an integrated study, based on InSAR techniques and quantitative geomorphic analyses to assess the present-day landscaping processes, in terms of tectonic, erosion and ground displacement rates due to landsliding. 5) Landscape Evolution Modelling: Based on the time constraints to the pre-failure morpho-evolutionary reconstruction provided by the aforementioned works on the 3 case studies, a Landscape Evolution Modelling (LEM) was implemented in order to calibrate the model by back-analysis individuating the exact temporal step in which a critical morpho-evolutive condition was reached originating the MRC process responsible for unelastic strains within the involved rock mass. 6) Strain evolution modelling and creep history reconstruction: The strain rate computation, and then subsequently the displacement rate, was performed, first, on the real landslide profiles to evaluate the possible strain rate value range in the case studies through a sensitivity analysis on the viscosity parameter. After that, it was also implemented in the LEMs to define the deformation history linked to the MRC process of the simulated slopes. 7) Discussion: Here, the main resulted predisposing and preparatory factors of large rock slope deformations, highlighting the geological, tectonic, and morpho-evolutionary contributes, are highlighted and discussed according to the occurrence of triggering factors (e.g., earthquakes). \item Conclusion\\ I can conclude that the landscape evolution modelling, temporally constrained by the morpho-evolutionary analysis, allows reconstructing the creep history of slope-valley systems. The presented multi-modelling approach will be continued by the stress-strain numerical modelling to calibrate the rock mass rheology by further back analysis allowing assessing a time-dependent risk.

Produzione scientifica

11573/1692545 - 2024 - A fluvial record of late Quaternary climate changes and tectonic uplift along the Marche Piedmont Zone of the Apennines. New insights from the Tesino River (Italy)
Delchiaro, Michele; Iacobucci, Giulia; Della Seta, Marta; Gribenski, Natacha; Piacentini, Daniela; Ruscitto, Valeria; Zocchi, Marta; Troiani, Francesco - 01a Articolo in rivista
rivista: GEOMORPHOLOGY (Amsterdam Netherlands: Elsevier BV) pp. - - issn: 0169-555X - wos: WOS:001120119100001 (0) - scopus: (0)

11573/1706772 - 2024 - Land-surface quantitative analysis for mapping and deciphering the construction processes of piedmont alluvial fans in the Anti-Lebanon Mountains
Iacobucci, Giulia; Delchiaro, Michele; Troiani, Francesco; Nadali, Davide - 01a Articolo in rivista
rivista: GEOMORPHOLOGY (Amsterdam Netherlands: Elsevier BV) pp. - - issn: 0169-555X - wos: (0) - scopus: (0)

11573/1705220 - 2024 - Exploring the geomorphological adequacy of the landslide susceptibility maps. A test for different types of landslides in the Bidente river basin (northern Italy)
Martinello, Chiara; Delchiaro, Michele; Iacobucci, Giulia; Cappadonia, Chiara; Rotigliano, Edoardo; Piacentini, Daniela - 01a Articolo in rivista
rivista: CATENA (Amsterdam Netherlands: Elsevier BV) pp. - - issn: 0341-8162 - wos: WOS:001170243600001 (0) - scopus: 2-s2.0-85184501318 (1)

11573/1699610 - 2024 - Interplay between tectonics and surface processes in the evolution of mountain ranges. Insights from landscape dynamics, uplift, and active deformation of Talesh Mountains (NW Iranian Plateau margin)
Moumeni Taromsari, M.; Delchiaro, M.; Della Seta, M.; Nozaem, R.; Ballato, P.; Leonard, J. S.; Clementucci, R.; Rouhi, J. - 01a Articolo in rivista
rivista: GEOMORPHOLOGY (Amsterdam Netherlands: Elsevier BV) pp. - - issn: 0169-555X - wos: WOS:001143528300001 (0) - scopus: 2-s2.0-85180595837 (1)

11573/1664523 - 2023 - Tectonic deformation and landscape evolution inducing mass rock creep driven landslides. The Loumar case-study (Zagros Fold and Thrust Belt, Iran)
Delchiaro, Michele; Della Seta, Marta; Martino, Salvatore; Nozaem, Reza; Moumeni, Mohammad - 01a Articolo in rivista
rivista: TECTONOPHYSICS (Elsevier BV:PO Box 211, 1000 AE Amsterdam Netherlands:011 31 20 4853757, 011 31 20 4853642, 011 31 20 4853641, EMAIL: nlinfo-f@elsevier.nl, INTERNET: http://www.elsevier.nl, Fax: 011 31 20 4853598) pp. - - issn: 0040-1951 - wos: WOS:000898609100002 (8) - scopus: 2-s2.0-85142699258 (11)

11573/1667076 - 2023 - Deep-Seated Gravitational Slope Deformations in Molise region (Italy). Novel inventory and main geomorphological features
Emanuele Discenza, Marco; Esposito, Carlo; Di Luzio, Emiliano; Delchiaro, Michele; Di Martire, Diego; Minnillo, Mariacarmela; Rouhi, Javad; Martino, Salvatore; Della Seta, Marta; Troiani, Francesco; Calcaterra, Domenico; Scarascia Mugnozza, Gabriele - 01a Articolo in rivista
rivista: JOURNAL OF MAPS (Abingdon U.K.: Taylor & Francis Surrey U.K.: School of Earth Sciences and Geography Kingston University, 2005-) pp. 1-14 - issn: 1744-5647 - wos: WOS:000917808200001 (1) - scopus: 2-s2.0-85147163163 (1)

11573/1683035 - 2023 - Identification and analysis of Quaternary alluvial terraces for climatic and tectonic signals detection purposes: a case study from the central Marche Apennines (central Italy)
Ruscitto, Valeria; Delchiaro, Michele; Della Seta, Marta; Iacobucci, Giulia; Piacentini, Daniela; Troiani, Francesco - 04d Abstract in atti di convegno
congresso: EGU General Assembly 2023 (Vienna, Austria)
libro: Geophysical Research Abstracts, EGU General Assembly 2023, 2023 - ()

11573/1651921 - 2022 - Morphoevolution of the Seymareh landslide-dam lake system (Zagros Mountains, Iran. Implications for Holocene climate and environmental changes
Delchiaro, Michele; Iacobucci, Giulia; Troiani, Francesco; Della Seta, Marta; Ballato, Paolo; Aldega, Luca - 01a Articolo in rivista
rivista: GEOMORPHOLOGY (Amsterdam Netherlands: Elsevier BV) pp. 1-17 - issn: 0169-555X - wos: WOS:000831581800002 (5) - scopus: 2-s2.0-85134532517 (6)

11573/1664519 - 2022 - Geomorphic signature of segmented relief rejuvenation in the Sierra Morena, Betic forebulge, Spain
Expósito, Inmaculada; Jiménez-Bonilla, Alejandro; Delchiaro, Michele; Yanes, José L.; Balanyá, Juan C.; Moral-Martos, Francisco; Della Seta, Marta - 01a Articolo in rivista
rivista: EARTH SURFACE DYNAMICS (the Copernicus GmbH (Copernicus Publications) on behalf of the European Geosciences Union (EGU).) pp. 1017-1039 - issn: 2196-6311 - wos: WOS:000877900300001 (1) - scopus: 2-s2.0-85142242184 (2)

11573/1652809 - 2022 - Land-surface quantitative analysis of the alluvial fans along the northern margin of Damascus Basin (Syria): preliminary results and geomorphological mapping
Iacobucci, Giulia; Delchiaro, Michele; Troiani, Francesco; Titolo, Andrea; Nadali, Davide - 04d Abstract in atti di convegno
congresso: 10th International Conference on Geomorphology (Coimbra; Portugal)
libro: 10th International Conference on Geomorphology, Coimbra, Portugal, 12–16 Sep 2022, ICG2022-35 - ()

11573/1634988 - 2022 - New insights on the emplacement kinematics of the Seymareh Landslide (Zagros Mts., Iran) through a novel spatial statistical approach
Rouhi, Javad; Delchiaro, Michele; Della Seta, Marta; Martino, Salvatore - 01a Articolo in rivista
rivista: FRONTIERS IN EARTH SCIENCE (Lausann : Frontiers Media S.A., 2013-) pp. 1-19 - issn: 2296-6463 - wos: WOS:000803902300001 (4) - scopus: 2-s2.0-85130701818 (5)

11573/1652810 - 2022 - Geomorphology and geochronology of the Quaternary fluvial terraces of the Tesino River: new constraints to the landscape evolution in the piedmont area of central-northern Apennines of Italy
Troiani, Francesco; Delchiaro, Michele; Gribenski, Natacha; Della Seta, Marta; Iacobucci, Giulia; Piacentini, Daniela; Zocchi, Marta - 04d Abstract in atti di convegno
congresso: 10th International Conference on Geomorphology (Coimbra; Portugal)
libro: 10th International Conference on Geomorphology, Coimbra, Portugal, 12–16 Sep 2022, ICG2022-57 - ()

11573/1623436 - 2021 - Fluvial inverse modeling for inferring the timing of Quaternary uplift in the Simbruini range (Central Apennines, Italy)
Delchiaro, M.; Fioramonti, V.; Della Seta, M.; Cavinato, G. P.; Mattei, M. - 01a Articolo in rivista
rivista: TRANSACTIONS IN GIS ([Oxford]: Blackwell Publishers) pp. 2455-2480 - issn: 1467-9671 - wos: WOS:000686023200001 (4) - scopus: 2-s2.0-85112750063 (4)

11573/1634984 - 2021 - Bivariate landslide susceptibility analysis in the Lorestan Arc (Zagros Mountains, Iran)
Delchiaro, M.; Rouhi, J.; Valiante, M.; Della Seta, M.; Esposito, C.; Martino, S. - 01a Articolo in rivista
rivista: ITALIAN JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING GEOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT (Roma : Centro Stampa d'Ateneo) pp. 53-66 - issn: 1825-6635 - wos: (0) - scopus: 2-s2.0-85122965176 (0)

11573/1558692 - 2021 - Middle Holocene environmental reconstruction and climatic inferences through multi-proxy records from Seymareh lake sediments (Zagros Mts., Iran)
Delchiaro, Michele; Iacobucci, Giulia; Troiani, Francesco; Della Seta, Marta; Ballato, Paolo; Aldega, Luca - 04d Abstract in atti di convegno
congresso: EGU General Assembly 2021 (Online)
libro: EGU General Assembly 2021 - ()

11573/1556041 - 2021 - Quantitative investigation of a Mass Rock Creep deforming slope through A-Din SAR and geomorphometry
Delchiaro, Michele; Mele, Emanuele; Della Seta, Marta; Martino, Salvatore; Mazzanti, Paolo; Esposito, Carlo - 02a Capitolo o Articolo
libro: Understanding and reducing landslide disaster risk - (978-3-030-60318-2; 978-3-030-60319-9)

11573/1443709 - 2020 - Evaluation of tectonics and landscape evolution contribute as predisposing factor for a Mass Rock Creep deforming slope in the Zagros Belt (Iran)
Delchiaro, Michele; Della Seta, Marta; Martino, Salvatore - 04d Abstract in atti di convegno
congresso: EGU General Assembly 2020 (Online)
libro: EGU General Assembly 2020, Online, 4–8 May 2020 - ()

11573/1443710 - 2020 - Fluvial inverse modelling for inferring the timing of Quaternary uplift in the Simbruini range (Central Apennines, Italy)
Delchiaro, Michele; Fioramonti, Veronica; Della Seta, Marta; Paolo Cavinato, Gian; Mattei, Massimo - 04b Atto di convegno in volume
congresso: Geomorphometry 2020 (Perugia)
libro: Proceedings of the Geomorphometry 2020 Conference - (978 88 8080 410 9)

11573/1443700 - 2020 - The giant Seymareh Landslide (Zagros Mts., Iran). A lesson for evaluating multi-temporal hazard scenarios
Delchiaro, Michele; Rouhi, Javad; Della Seta, Marta; Martino, Salvatore; Nozaem, Reza; Dehbozorgi, Maryam - 02a Capitolo o Articolo
libro: Applied geology. Approaches to future resource management - (978-3-030-43952-1; 978-3-030-43953-8)

11573/1279731 - 2019 - New insights on the predisposing factors and geomorphic response to the largest landslide on emerged earth surface. The Seymareh rock slide - debris avalanche (Zagros Mts., Iran)
Delchiaro, Michele; Della Seta, Marta; Martino, Salvatore; Dehbozorgi, Maryam; Nozaem, Reza - 01a Articolo in rivista
rivista: EARTH SURFACE DYNAMICS DISCUSSIONS (Göttingen: Copernicus Publ., 2013) pp. 1-37 - issn: 2196-6338 - wos: (0) - scopus: (0)

11573/1320586 - 2019 - Reconstruction of river valley evolution before and after the emplacement of the giant Seymareh rock avalanche (Zagros Mts., Iran)
Delchiaro, Michele; Della Seta, Marta; Martino, Salvatore; Maryam, Dehbozorgi; Reza, Nozaem - 01a Articolo in rivista
rivista: EARTH SURFACE DYNAMICS (the Copernicus GmbH (Copernicus Publications) on behalf of the European Geosciences Union (EGU).) pp. 929-947 - issn: 2196-6311 - wos: WOS:000489690200001 (22) - scopus: 2-s2.0-85073232336 (23)

11573/1317454 - 2019 - Geomorphological investigation on the Siah-kuh Mass Rock Creep deformation (Zagros Mts., Iran) through Space-borne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) interferometry and quantitative geomorphic analysis
Delchiaro, Michele; Mele, Emanuele; Della Seta, Marta; Martino, Salvatore; Mazzanti, Paolo - 04d Abstract in atti di convegno
congresso: 2019 Regional Conference on Geomorphology (Athens, Greece)
libro: Proceedings of the 2019 Regional Conference on Geomorphology - ()

11573/1279757 - 2019 - Geostructural and geomorphic constraints for landscape evolution modeling and stress-strain numerical analysis of the giant Seymareh landslide (Zagros Mts., Iran)
Delchiaro, Michele; Rouhi, Javad; Della Seta, Marta; Martino, Salvatore; Maryam, Dehbozorgi; Reza, Nozaem - 04d Abstract in atti di convegno
congresso: 2019 EGU General Assembly (Wien, Austria)
libro: Proceedings of the 2019 EGU General Assembly. 7-12 April 2019, Wien, Austria - ()

11573/1317447 - 2019 - Emplacement kinematics of the Seymareh rock-avalanche debris (Iran) inferred by field and remote surveying
Rouhi, Javad; Delchiaro, Michele; Della Seta, Marta; Martino, Salvatore - 01a Articolo in rivista
rivista: ITALIAN JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING GEOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT (Roma : Casa editrice La Sapienza, 2009-) pp. - - issn: 2035-5688 - wos: WOS:000510902200017 (3) - scopus: 2-s2.0-85104786201 (4)

11573/1279753 - 2018 - The giant Seymareh Landslide (Zagros Mts., Iran): a lesson for multi-temporal hazard scenario evaluation
Delchiaro, Michele; Rouhi, Javad; Della Seta, Marta; Martino, Salvatore; Dehbozorgi, Maryam; Reza, Nozaem - 04d Abstract in atti di convegno
congresso: 6th AIGA National Congress (Italian Association of Applied and Environmental Geology) (Courmayeur, Italy)
libro: Proceedings of the 6th AIGA National Congress (Italian Association of Applied and Environmental Geology) 27-29 June 2018 Courmayeur - ()

11573/1279748 - 2017 - Morphoevolution of the Seymareh River valley in the tectonically active Zagros Mts. (Iran): Predisposing factors and Geomorphic response to the largest landslide on the Earth surface
Delchiaro, Michele; Della Seta, Marta; Martino, Salvatore; Dehbozorgi, Maryam; Nozaem, Reza - 04d Abstract in atti di convegno
congresso: 9th International Conference on Geomorphology (Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, India)
libro: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Geomorphology 6-11 november 2017 Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, India - ()

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