EDMED Details

General

Dataset Name: Sedimentology, morphology and composition of the sandy shorelines of the northern Adriatic coast of Italy
Data Holding Centre: University of Trieste, Department of Earth Science, Oceanography and Meteorology
Time Period: Irregularly from 1973 onwards
Start Date: 1973-01-01
End Date: 1992-12-31
Project

Geocoverage: Northern Adriatic Sea (from Trieste to the mouth of Adige River)
Geographic Box (south,north,west,east): 40, 12, 20, 46
Sea Area: Mediterranean Sea; Adriatic Sea

Parameters: Sediment grain size parameters
Instruments: sediment grabs; balances and scales; electron microscopes; particle sizers

Summary: Soil conservation project of Italian C.N.R. ('Dynamics of coasts') (up to 1982) and M.P.I. and M.U.R.S.T. 40 per cent grants ('Littoral dynamics and coastal protection') - Sedimentological and morphological parameters are obtained through the analysis of profiles of emerged and submarine beach, from the dune to 8m isobath. The main morphological elements of the emerged and intertidal beach were surveyed by means of autolevel and stadia rod; the submarine beach was surveyed by means of continuous echosounding. Samples of sediments were collected at the dune-toe, berms, shoreline, troughs, bars and at every meter of depth. Most of the results are graphically summarised in a synthesis of immediate reading: 6 charts of the 'Atlas of the Italian Beaches'. Other detailed studies (morphology, sedimentology, wave climate, morphodynamics, etc.) were carried out on limited sectors of the Northern Adriatic Sea, as the Friuli-Venezia Giulia coasts, the old littoral barrier of Caorle Lagoon and its tidal inlets, the littoral barriers of Venice Lagoon.
Originator: University of Trieste, Department of Earth Science, Oceanography and Meteorology
References

Availability: by negotiation
Organization: University of Trieste, Department of Geological, Environmental and Marine Sciences
Contact: unknown
Address: University of Trieste, Department of Geological, Environmental and Marine Sciences; Trieste; 34127; Italy; disgam@univ.trieste.it; http://www.univ.trieste.it/disgam