Nicoletti P.G., TERRANOVA O., 1998, Duration of lakes dammed by old, earthquake-triggered landslides in southeastern Sicily, Proceedings Eight International Congress of IAEG, pp. 2135–2142, Vancouver (Canada), 21-25 Sept. 1998,
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This paper presents a tentative estimate of the duration of 2 lakes, dammed by old, seismically induced landslides in SE. Sicily. It consists basically of a comparison between volume of silting up sediments and average annual sediment yield, taken into account the relevant parameters. A further landslide-damned lake, which is known to have formed due to the strong 1693 earthquake, is used to calibrate the method. The minimal duration of the 2 lakes results of 5000 and 6500 years, respectively.

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