The coastal wetland systems of northern Tuscany: Massaciuccoli Lake and ex Porta Lake. State of knowledge and new opportunities for multidisciplinary approach
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The Massaciuccoli lake of and the ex Porta Lake have been selected as Sites of Importance of the European Community for the particular biocommunities that they host. These areas have a complex history that has seen man intervening constantly over the centuries with reclamation operations, so that the landscape we see today is the result of a natural environment strongly shaped by man. Recent studies, conducted using a sequential stratigraphic approach, show that the depositional architecture of the Versilia Plain is determined by the variation in relative sea level, the amount of sedimentary input and the erosive capacity of the main watercourses, which have led to the formation of engraved paleovalleys. By using the stratigraphies collected in the IGGDATABASE, an attempt of stratigraphic reconstruction of the subsurface has been carried out in this work, underling that multidisciplinary detailed studies are necessary to better define the recent palaeoenvironmental evolution (Pleistocene-Holocene) and the depositional architecture of the subsurface of these areas. Moreover, a detailed monitoring of these systems both for abiotic and biotic parameters is needed as essential mean for their protection and preservation.
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Patacca E, Sartori R, Scandone P (1990) Tyrrhenian basin and Apenninic arcs: kinematic relations since late Tortonian times. Mem. Soc. geol. Ital., 45: 425-451.
Aguzzi M, Amorosi A, Colalongo ML, Ricci Lucchi M., Rossi V, Sarti G, Vaiani SC (2007) Late Quaternary climatic evolution of the Arno coastal plain (Western Tuscany, Italy) from subsurface data. Sedimentary Geology 202: 211-229.
Amorosi A, Rossi V, Sarti G, Mattei R (2013) Coalescent valley fills from the late Quaternary record of Tuscany (Italy). Quatern. Int., 288: 129-138.
Antonioli F, Girotti O, Improta S, Nisi MF, Puglisi C, Verrubbi V (1999) Nuovi dati sulla trasgressione marina olocenica della pianura versiliese "New data on the Holocene marine transgression in the Versilia Plain". In: Atti del Convegno Le Pianure, conoscenza e salvaguardia, Ferrara, 8-11 Novembre 1999.
AAVV (2013) Agricoltura e tutela delle acque nel bacino del lago di Massaciuccoli "Agricolture and protection of the waters of the basin of Massaciuccoli lake". Pacini Editori, Pisa
Baldaccini GN (2018) Zone umide: dal degrado al recupero ecologico. Il caso del lago di Massaciuccoli (Toscana nord-occidentale) "Wetlands: from degradation to the ecological recovery. The case of Massaciuccoli lake (Tuscany north-western)". Biologia Ambientale, 32: 85-98 DOI 10.30463/ao181.009
Baneschi I. (2007) Geochemical and environmental study of a coastal ecosystem: Massaciuccoli lake (northern Tuscany, Italy). PhD Thesis, University Cà Foscari of Venice, Dept. of Environmental Sciences, Venice, Italy
Bini M, Sarti G, Da Prato S, Fabiani F, Paribeni E, Baroni C (2009) Geoarcheological evidences of changes in the coastline progradation rate of the Versilia coastal plain between Camaiore and Viareggio (Tuscany, Italy): possible relationships with Late Holocene high-frequency transgressive regressive cycles. Il Quaternario, Italian Journal of Quaternary Sciences, 22: 257-266.
Blanc AC (1937) La stratigraphie de la plaine côtiére de la Bassa Versilia (Italie) et la transgression flandrienne en Mediterrannée "The stratigraphy of the coastal plain of Bassa Versilia (Italy) and the Flandrian transgression in the Mediterranean Sea". Rev. Géogr. Phys. Géol. Dyn., 9: 129-162.
Blanc AC (1942) Variazioni climatiche ed oscillazioni della linea di riva nel Mediterraneo centrale durante l'Era Glaciale "Climate variations and shoreline oscillations in the central Mediterranean during the Ice Age". Sond. Geologie Meere Binnenengenwasser, 5: 50-90.
Boschian G, Bossio A, Dall'Antonia B, Mazzanti R (2006) Il Quaternario della Toscana costiera "The Quaternary of coastal Tuscany". Studi costieri, 12. Gruppo Nazionale per la Ricerca sull'Ambiente Costiero, Firenze
Bossio A, Costantini A, Foresi LM, Lazzarotto A, Mazzanti R, Mazzei R, Pascucci V, Salvatorini G, Sandrelli F, Terzuoli A (1998) Neogene-Quaternary evolution in thewestern side of the Northern Apennines (Italy). Memorie della Società Geologica Italiana, 52: 513-525.
Brunelli G, Cannicci G (1942) Il Lago di Massaciuccoli "The Massaciuccoli lake". Boll.Pesca Pisc. Idrob., 18, pp. 5- 63.
Carboni MG, Bergamin L, Di Bella L, Esu D, Pisegna Cerone E, Antonioli F, Verrubbi V (2010) Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of late Quaternary foraminifera and molluscs from the ENEA borehole (Versilian plain, Tuscany, Italy). Quaternary Research 74: 265-276.
Cenni M, Baldaccini GN, Cini C, Frascari F, Giaconi V, Grazzini A, Pensabene G, Simoni F, Spandre R (1998) Lake Massaciuccoli: A Strategic, Sustainable Approach for the Restoration of a Nutrient Enriched Shallow Lake. Fresenius Envir. Bull. 7: 120 - 127.
Federici PR (1993) The Versilian transgression of the Versilia area (Tuscany, Italy) in the light of drillings and radiometric data. Mem. Soc. Geol. It., 49: 217-225.
Ghelardoni R, Giannini E, Nardi R (1968) Ricostruzione paleogeografica dei bacini neogenici e quaternari nella bassa valle dell'Arno sulla base dei sondaggi e dei rilievi sismici "Palaeogeographic reconstruction of the neogenic and quaternary basins in the lower Arno valley on the basis of surveys and seismic surveys". Mem. Soc. Geol. It., 7: 91-106.
Malinverno A, Ryan WBF (1986) Extension in the Tyrrhenian sea and shortening in the Apennines as a result of arc migration driven by sinking of the lithosphere. Tectonics, 5: 227-245
Pascucci V (2005) Neogene evolution of the Viareggio Basin, Northern Tuscany (Italy). Geoacta, 4: 123-138.
Patacca E, Sartori R, Scandone P (1990) Tyrrhenian basin and Apenninic arcs: kinematic relations since late Tortonian times. Mem. Soc. geol. Ital., 45: 425-451.
Da Prato, S., & Baneschi, I. (2020). The coastal wetland systems of northern Tuscany: Massaciuccoli Lake and ex Porta Lake. State of knowledge and new opportunities for multidisciplinary approach. Acque Sotterranee - Italian Journal of Groundwater, 9(3). https://doi.org/10.7343/as-2020-478
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