GPR INVESTIGATIONS TO EVALUATE THE GEOMETRY OF ROCK SLIDES AND BUCKLING IN A LIMESTONE FORMATION IN NORTHERN ITALY

Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) investigations were performed to assess the depth and geometry of rock slides and buckles affecting a dip slope of regularly stratified limestones interbedded with marly-clayey horizons in the south-eastern Alps. This method was chosen because the absence of high cuts in the rock mass and the presence of debris and loosened slabs on the slope did not all-ow the geometry of the sliding mass to be described solely by means of field mapping.