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Il contributo verte sulla traduzione, inedita in italiano, di un racconto tratto dalla raccolta "Un voyage dans le désert" dello scrittore francese contemporaneo Xavier Bazot. La particolarità del testo consiste nel basarsi fortemente su idiotismi di ogni genere

Risultati preliminari della campagna oceanografica CAFE_07 – Leg 3 nei Golfi di Napoli e Pozzuoli, Mar Tirreno Orientale

Vengono presentati i risultati preliminari della campagna oceanografica CAFE_07 - Leg 3, svoltasi nei Golfi di Napoli e Pozzuoli, nel Gennaio 2008, a bordo della Nave Oceanografica (N/O) URANIA del CNR. Lo scopo della campagna è stato l’acquisizione di profili sismici multicanale di elevata risoluzione dedicati allo studio stratigrafico-strutturale degli apparati vulcanici affioranti e sepolti nell’offshore Napoletano, ed il rilievo batimetrico di dettaglio dell’area sommersa. I dati raccolti sono consistiti in circa 800 km di profili sismici a riflessione multicanale di alta risoluzione, con acquisizione sismica simultanea da due sorgenti GI-gun operanti con potenza e frequenze differenti,mediante due cavi idrofonici. Durante la navigazione sono stati anche acquisiti profili sismici a riflessione monocanale di altissima risoluzione (sub-bottom CHIRP) e dati batimetrici mediante ecoscandaglio multifascio (multibeam). Il grid di acquisizione sismica multicanale è consistito in alcuni profili lunghi attraverso il Golfo di Napoli e da una fitta griglia di profili più corti, con interasse di circa 150 m, allo scopo di ottenere una copertura sismica quasi 3-D del Golfo di Pozzuoli. Questo set di dati costituisce una parte delle indagini di dettaglio richieste per la stesura di una proposta di perforazione del settore sommerso dei Campi Flegrei da sottomettere all’Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) ed è di supporto alla realizzazione di un progetto di perforazione profonda dei Campi Flegrei presentato all’International Continental Drilling Program (ICDP). We present the preliminary results of the oceanographic cruise CAFE_07 – Leg 3, conducted in the Napoli and Pozzuoli Bays in January 2008, on board of the Research Vessel (R/V) URANIA of the CNR. The aim of the cruise was the acquisition of high resolution multi-channel seismic profiles to understand the stratigraphic-structural setting of the Pozzuoli Bay area, with specific reference to the major offshore volcanic features, as well as the acquisition of bathymetric data on the seafloor morphology of the Bay. About 800 km of seismic profiles were acquired simultaneously by two acquisition systems, each characterized by different seismic source and streamer configuration, operating at different frequency ranges. Moreover shallow high resolution seismic reflection profiles (sub-bottom CHIRP) and multibeam echo-sounder bathymetry data have been recorded. The seismic grid consisted in a number of assistant profiles acquired over the Bay of Naples, along with a dense network of profiles with average distance of about 150 m between navigation routes, in order to obtain a quasi 3-D seismic coverage of the Pozzuoli Bay. This data set represents a part of the requirements for on-site detailed investigations (“site survey”) that are necessary for the development of an Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) proposal dedicated to the offshore drilling of the Campi Flegrei and is a relevant complement in the site survey of an ongoing project that has been submitted to the International Continental Drilling Program (ICDP)

Fire-induced effects on the bioavailability of potentially toxic elements in a polluted agricultural soil: implications for Cr uptake by durum wheat plants.

Fire events can modify the distribution and speciation of potentially toxic elements (PTEs) in soil, especially if they are associated to organic matter (OM). In fact, OM can undergo substantial structural modifcations at high temperatures, up to the complete mineralization. The present study aims to investigate the changes of PTEs’ bioavailability to durum wheat (Triticum durum Desf.) plants after simulating fre events (up to 300 °C and 500 °C) in an agricultural soil polluted by Cr, Zn, Cu, and Pb. The PTEs’ uptake and allocation in plant tissues were assessed using the RHIZOtest system. After the fre simulations, no evident risk of accumulation and translocation in plants was observed for Zn, Pb, and Cu. Conversely, a high accumulation in roots and a signifcant translocation to shoots were observed for Cr, which reached concentrations of 829 mg kg−1 in roots and 52 mg kg−1 in shoots at 500 °C. Additional experimental evidence suggested that Cr was taken up by plants grown on heated soils as Cr(VI). Once acquired by roots, only a small part of Cr (up to 6%) was translocated to shoots where it was likely present as mobile forms, as evidenced by micro X-ray fuorescence (µ-XRF) analyses. Overall, the results obtained provide evidence that the high temperatures occurring during fre events can increase the mobility and bioavailability of certain PTEs transforming apparently safe environments into potentially dangerous sources of pollution. These processes can ultimately afect the human health through the food chain transfer of PTEs or their migration into surface water and groundwater