TUNIS , Giorgio

Understanding the factors that contribute to anisotropic slopes instability provides important information for safe mining operations in flysch-type units. This work presents the results of sedimentological and structural analyses performed in the Anhovo Quarry (Western Slovenia), where carbonate-rich material is excavated from exhumed mass...

The Paleogene carbonate megabreccias of the Eastern Friuli, South-Eastern Alps of Italy, are thick, up to 260 m, and laterally extensive, up to 100 km, bodies attributed to catastrophic submarine landslides, which occurred in a deep-water, turbidite-filled foredeep basin (Julian Basin or Slovenian Basin of the Slovene geologists). The Grivo...

The Paleogene carbonate "megabreccia" units of the Friuli Basin are composite deposits produced by catastrophic shallow-water carbonate platform collapses re-deposited in relatively deep-water inner foredeep settings developed at the front of the advancing Dinaric thrust system. These thick, basin-wide mass transport deposits (MTDs) record the...

Micro- to meso-scale outcrop studies on selected field analogues allow direct calibration and testing of geophysical interpretations performed on mass transport deposits in modern continental margins, in terms of genetic processes and sliding dynamics. This comparative approach provides important information for forecasting and mitigating...