Fractal Dimension Analysis Applied to Soil CO2 Fluxes in Campotosto’s Seismic Area, Central Italy

This article reports fractal dimension analysis applied to soil CO2 fluxes measured in an Italian seismic area. The work was carried out with the use of a calibrated flux chamber unit. The fractal dimension (FD) from isotropic variograms was used as a method to understand related scale-dependent phe...

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Published inGeosciences (Basel) Vol. 10; no. 6; p. 233
Main Authors D’Incecco, Simone, Di Carlo, Piero, Aruffo, Eleonora, Chatzisavvas, Nikolaos, Petraki, Ermioni, Priniotakis, Georgios, Voyiatzis, Ioannis, Yannakopoulos, Panayiotis H., Nikolopoulos, Dimitrios
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published MDPI AG 01.06.2020
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CO2 fluxes
fractal dimension
seismic area
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Summary:This article reports fractal dimension analysis applied to soil CO2 fluxes measured in an Italian seismic area. The work was carried out with the use of a calibrated flux chamber unit. The fractal dimension (FD) from isotropic variograms was used as a method to understand related scale-dependent phenomena. The aim was to investigate the spatial variability of CO2 flux measurements in four directions (horizontal, vertical, 45° and 135° directions) related to different distances between the measuring points and from a fault. High fractal dimension values were found (2.5 ≤ FD ≤ 3.0). These imply strong anti-persistent behavior near to and far from the fault. Lower fractal dimensions were addressed at longer distances from the fault.
ISSN:2076-3263
2076-3263
DOI:10.3390/geosciences10060233