Sulphuric acid geofluid contribution on thermal carbonate coastal springs (Italy)

Le grotte costiere di Santa Cesarea Terme rappresentano un caso quasi unico al mondo di grotte costiere ipogeniche la cui genesi è legata all’azione dell’acido solforico.

Per comprendere i complessi processi naturali che agiscono sullo sviluppo di queste grotte, è stato realizzato uno studio multidisciplinare, integrando dati acquisiti da rilievi morfologici, geologici strutturali, idrogeologici, idrogeochimici e mineralogici.

Il tutto è stato ora pubblicato sulla prestigiosa rivista Environmental Earth Sciences con il titolo:

Sulphuric acid geofluid contribution on thermal carbonate coastal springs (Italy)

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Hypogenic caves, developed by sulphuric acid speleogenesis, are known all over the world among which the Santa Cesarea Terme caves have been included.

This cave system represents an almost unique case of hypogenic sea caves in carbonate environment.

To understand the complex and overlapping natural processes acting on the development of these coastal caves, a multidisciplinary study has been carried out.

This study has integrated all the data resulting from different methods and technologies, merging morphology, structural geology, hydrogeology, hydrogeochemistry and mineralogy.

This multidisciplinary study has allowed to define the main geochemical processes acting within these caves, including the cave development and the formation of the mineral concretions

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