Abstract
ABSTRACT BARSANTI, M., CALDA, N and VALLONI, R., 2011. The Italian Coasts: a Natural Laboratory for the Quality Evaluation of Beach Replenishments. In: Micallef, A. (ed.), MCRR3-2010 Conference Proceedings, Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue, No. 61, pp. 1–07. Grosseto, Tuscany, Italy, ISSN 0749-0208. The present paper describes the joint research recently carried out by the University of Parma and the ENEA Marine Research Centre of La Spezia for the characterization of grain-size and petrography of the Native sediments of the Italian marine coastal territory. The work aims to establish a protocol for the evaluation of the “quality’ of artificial beach replenishment fills. GIS technologies have been used to create a national database on coastal cells. The Italian territory is composed of 188 Littoral Cells if coastal stretches less than 5 km long are ignored. On these Cells over two hundred sample couples of dune and beach sediment were collected and analysed for grain-size and thin-section petrog...
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