The Shallows Project: preliminary investigation

In the framework of the CORILA Research Programme "La laguna di Venezia nel quadro dei cambiamenti climatici, delle misure di mitigazione ed adattamento e dell'evoluzione degli usi del territorio" the SHALLOWS Project: Indagini nel sottosuolo olocenico della laguna di Venezia been activated within the Activity "Analisi delle componenti a scala locale del relative sea level rise alla luce degli scenari globali di sviluppo futuro considerati dall'IPCC". Whit this project, the investigations of the subsoil carried out in 2004-2006 (Research Line 3.16 of the 2004-2006 CORILA Research Programme) in the southern area of the Venice Lagoon, extend to the central lagoon basin. Investigations in the subsoil down to about 20 m depth below the lagoon shallows are ongoing by Very High Resolution Seismic survey, sedimentological and geomorphological analyses. In particular, the study focused on some key sites where signs of the presence of buried geomorphological features, e.g. deltas and channel-levee systems, have been preliminary detected. At the date, only preliminary results are available. Hence, this paper describes the aims and objectives of the research and shows a few example of the recently acquired data.