ReWARD Project
Refraction/Wide-Angle Reflections Database
Sezione 'Pericolosità e rischio Sismico' - Milano

R/WAR italian deep seismic data

SHOTS & MAPS
(shooting data and raw maps with deployment lines)

 
Index of the main crustal scientific investigations carried out in Italy (1968-1991 D.S.S. experiments). For the Alpine 1956-1968 surveys, see references (1) (2) (3).
  Year 
Land survey MAP
Program
SHOOTING
data
Project Coordinator
1968
Sicily  
.html ( 8 KB )
ESC 
Italian explosion seismology Group (4)
1970
Calabrian Arc  
.html ( 8 KB )
"          "            "          "
1971
Tyrrheanian Sea  
.xls ( 40 KB )
"          "            "          "
1972
Calabrian Arc  
.xls ( 31 KB )
"          "            "          "
1973
Central and Southern Apennines
(Long-range 'Ireland-Apulia' profile)
 
.html ( 7 KB )
  Deutsche Forshungsgemeinshaft
CNR
1974
Northern Apennines  
.xls ( 51 KB )
ESC
Italian explosion seismology Group
1975
Central Alps (A.L.P.-75, 'H-D' profile)  
.html ( 7 KB )
"          "          "          "
1977
Southern Alps (SUDALP-77)
Sicily
 
.html ( 7 KB )
.html ( 5 KB )
"          "          "          "
"          "          "          "
1978
Eastern Alps and Central Apennines  
.html ( 6 KB )
"          "          "          "
1979
Tyrrheanian and Ionian Sea  
.xls ( 45 KB )
"          "          "          "
1980
South Italy [ Southern Apennines - Sicily ]  
.html ( 6 KB )
"          "          "          "
1982
Sardinia (EGT)  
.html ( 10 KB )
E.S.F. - European GeoTraverse
1983
Sardinia, Corsica, Northern Apennines (EGT)  
.html ( 12 KB )
"                "                 "
1984
Sicily (EGT)   (Sicily, global)  
.html ( 17 KB )
"                "                 "
1985
Sardinia, Sardinia Channel, Tunisia (EGT)  
.xls ( 33 KB )
"                "                 "
1986
Western and Southern  Alps,
Po plain, Northern Apennines (EGT)
 
.html ( 6 KB )
"                "                 "
1987
Northern Apennines (Genoa-Piacenza transept)  
.html ( 11 KB )
AGIP, Uni-MI, CNR-IGL 
1991
Northern Apennines / Po Plain (BTP)  
.html ( 5 KB )
CNR-IRRS

 

Additional available WAR seismic data acquired on-shore in the frame of the Italian CROP Project(5) (CROsta Profonda):
 

year
area
Project
method
source
shots / stations
DATA
Project Coordinator
 1985 
Western Alps
CROP-ECORS
DSS
explosive
.html ( 6 KB )
CNR, Uni-TS
1987
Western Alps (Emarese/Paesana profile)
CROP-NFP20
"
"
 
"       "
1993/'94
Northern and Central  Apennines
supporting profiles
to CROP-03 line
"
"
.html ( 8 KB )
CNR-IRRS
1994
Tyrrheanian and Adriatic Seas
CROP-Mare II
WAR
air-guns
.html ( 31 KB )
Sea-Land WG (6)
1995
Ligurian-Tyrrhenian Seas
LISA
WAR
"     "
.html ( 16 KB )
"         "        "

 
 
 
 

References

(1)
Behnke C., Giese P., 1969. Über refraktionsseismiche Untersuchungen 1956-1969 zur Erforshung der Erdkruste in den Alpen. Bericht, Stand, August 1969.
[ This is the original document with all the detailed information. The total data for the observed perdiod are: N. of shots: 193; N. of in-line profiles and fans: 55; total length: ca. 10500 km; N. of recordings: ca. 1700.  See shot points data (9 sheets) ]

(2)
Choudhury M., Giese P., de Visentini G. , 1971. Crustal structure of the Alps: some general features from explosion Seismology. Bollettino di Geofisica teorica ed Applicata, Vol. XIII, n. 51-52, Sept.-Dec. 1971. [ raw map  list of all profiles ]

(3)
Buness H., 1990. A compilation of data from the 1983 European Geotraverse Experiment from the Ligurian Sea to the Southern Alps. FU-Berlin, open file Report, June 1990. [ list of Italian 1962-'70 profiles ].

(4)
under the ESC, SC-D (DSS), the Italian Group has been:
        -  Milano: CNR (Italian National Research Council):  IGL(until 1991), IRRS (after),
        -  Napoli: OV (Vesuvian Observatory),
        -  Trieste: OGS  - shot points management,
        -  University - Geophysical Institutes of: Milano, Trieste, Genova, Napoli, Lecce, Cosenza, Palermo, Catania.

(5)
Morelli C., 1985. Il Progetto strategico "CROSTA PROFONDA". Proceedings of the IVth GNGTS Italian Congress, Rome, October 29-31, 1985.

(6)
de Franco R., Caielli G., Corsi A. (eds.) and Sea-Land Group, 1997. Wide angle reflection SEA-LAND CROP-MARE II & LISA Project. Section Atlas. CNR-IRRS, Milan, 61 plates.
      Sea-Land Working Group:
          -  Milano: CNR-IRRS,
          -  Napoli: OV (Vesuvian Observatory),
          -  University: Geophysical Institutes of Milano, Cosenza , Palermo.



update: September 2002, by M.Maistrello - Ingv - Milano - ITALY