Geography of Abruzzo - Lakes of Abruzzo, Mountains of Abruzzo, Rivers of Abruzzo, Sirente Crater, Gran Sasso D'Italia, Monti Della Laga (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Lakes of Abruzzo, Mountains of Abruzzo, Rivers of Abruzzo, Sirente Crater, Gran Sasso D'italia, Monti Della Laga, Fucine Lake, Lake Campotosto, Grotta Del Cavallone, Tordino, Majella National Park, Calderone Glacier, Aterno-Pescara, Montagne Del Morrone, Monti Della Meta, Sangro, Sacco, Tronto, Montagna Dei Fiori, Monte Velino, Monte Sirente, Lago Di Bomba, Lago Di Scanno, Trigno, Lago Di San Domenico, Lago Pio, Vomano. Excerpt: The Sirente crater is a small shallow seasonal lake in Abruzzo, central Italy. The lake is located at the center of the Prati del Sirente, a mountainous highland north of the Sirente massif in the Apennines, 13 kilometres from the small village of Secinaro. In the late 1990s, the peculiar appearance of the ridge drew the attention of geologist Jens Orm, a Swedish impact crater specialist. Orm set up a research team (the Sirente Crater Group) together with two colleagues from the International Research School of Planetary Science of Pescara (IRSPS), Angelo Pio Rossi and Goro Komatsu. The lake was suggested to be just part of a larger crater field comprising about 30 individual depressions in the Sirente area. However, the "crater field" is now generally believed to be the result of human activity. Many potential origins of the Sirente depressions have been suggested; however, the depressions are now generally believed to be the result of human activity centuries worth of ponds made by sheep farmers combined with the action of natural karstic processes. The Sirente Crater Group proposed a meteoric origin for this structure in the late 1990s and they went on updating their result for nearly a decade. No impact shock evidence was produced. The impact origin hypothesis was disproven and shown to be the result of human ... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=5833747