During the preliminary study for the preparation of the Municipal Coastal Plan (MCP), as specified by Apulia’s Regional Coastal Plan (RCP), also aimed to assess the stability and emergency conditions of some specific spots of Tricase’s rocky coast, a geomorphological survey was performed on 8 km of coastline considered high environmental sensitive. This is a complex carbonate slope, sometimes gently sloping, other times high and steep, that involves different stratigraphic units conflicting with each other between the ages of the Cretaceous to Quaternary. Due to the complexity of the out cropping formations, well marked by the deep excavations near the port and by the engravings from the paleo river of Canale del Rio, which reveal both the formational attribution of the deposits in subject and the Pleistocene evolution of Salento, we set the area enhancement and conservation with eco-friendly measures in order to allow a coastal fruition to geotourists who have an interest in geology, but who do not know the national geological heritage. Since geotourists generally arrive in small family groups, often with school age children, we think it opportune to provide the entire coastline with a share-use footway, for use by both pedestrians and cyclists, equipped with explanatory signboards containing short captions and a few scientific terms describing the geosite. In order to make unique and picturesque the landscape in which the above formations are identified, we think it opportune to enhance any geosite with light effects and play of coloured light and shade. Moreover, the state-owned coastal area management has always represented, in the urban design discipline an unresolved issue. What a bed proposed for a correct urban evaluation of the costs for expert instead of mass tourists? We believe that an appropriate redevelopment of the entire coastal axis, achieved through the interest of an audience sensitive to environmental problems and completed with adequate accommodations and recreational facilities, to be built with environmentally friendly techniques and materials, will bring the double benefit of the conservation and the economic appreciation of goods.
A proposal for the enhancement of lower Pleistocene carbonates deposits of the coastal area of Tricase
GIACCARI, Emanuele;
2012-01-01
Abstract
During the preliminary study for the preparation of the Municipal Coastal Plan (MCP), as specified by Apulia’s Regional Coastal Plan (RCP), also aimed to assess the stability and emergency conditions of some specific spots of Tricase’s rocky coast, a geomorphological survey was performed on 8 km of coastline considered high environmental sensitive. This is a complex carbonate slope, sometimes gently sloping, other times high and steep, that involves different stratigraphic units conflicting with each other between the ages of the Cretaceous to Quaternary. Due to the complexity of the out cropping formations, well marked by the deep excavations near the port and by the engravings from the paleo river of Canale del Rio, which reveal both the formational attribution of the deposits in subject and the Pleistocene evolution of Salento, we set the area enhancement and conservation with eco-friendly measures in order to allow a coastal fruition to geotourists who have an interest in geology, but who do not know the national geological heritage. Since geotourists generally arrive in small family groups, often with school age children, we think it opportune to provide the entire coastline with a share-use footway, for use by both pedestrians and cyclists, equipped with explanatory signboards containing short captions and a few scientific terms describing the geosite. In order to make unique and picturesque the landscape in which the above formations are identified, we think it opportune to enhance any geosite with light effects and play of coloured light and shade. Moreover, the state-owned coastal area management has always represented, in the urban design discipline an unresolved issue. What a bed proposed for a correct urban evaluation of the costs for expert instead of mass tourists? We believe that an appropriate redevelopment of the entire coastal axis, achieved through the interest of an audience sensitive to environmental problems and completed with adequate accommodations and recreational facilities, to be built with environmentally friendly techniques and materials, will bring the double benefit of the conservation and the economic appreciation of goods.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
