ABSTRACT
Like other sectors of the Italian Apennines, the area of the province of Benevento is characterised by recurring events of slope instabilities, in time and space, determining conditions of high risk. The geological and structural setting of the Campania Apennines is the basis of landsliding processes. This chapter highlights the influence of the geological and structural settings on the occurrence of earth flows in the study area, by using data from a ‘‘Landslide Inventory Map’’ of the province. The territory of the province of Benevento is located in one of the most geologically complex areas in Italy. The Southern Apennines consists of thrustbelt structures of carbonate terrain and clayey and stony flysches, resulting from the deformation of paleogeographic domains. Multi-source earth flows reflect the complex lithostructural settings. In particular, in specific areas, litholologically differentiated sequences alternate or they are in contact, inducing differentiated erosion zones.
