Casale is a small town (37000 inhabitants) located in eastern Piedmont, on the right bank of the Po river. Thanks to its favourable position, in the 15th century it became the capital of the Marquisate of Monferrato and the eat of a diocese. Two
This paper deals with the evolution of the karst developed in the evaporite succession around Monferrato. In this area the thickness of the evaporite sequence is highly variable due to an important erosion surface formed at the end of the evaporite
, running from W to E, namely : Turin Hill-Monferrato-Langhe-Maritime Alps (arc 1), Emilia Romagna-Marche (arc 2), Ferrara (arc 3) and Adriatic sea (arc 4). The arcs are the results of a westward movement of autochthonous crustal blocks pushed from ESE-SE
This paper describes a case study of hazard related to an underground gypsum quarry at Moncalvo (Monferrato area, Asti, Northern Italy), where an underground quarry encountered a water-bearing fracture that emptied overnight, claiming only material