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Engineering Geophysical Study of Active Slides in the Mediaeval Castle and Kruja City, Albania
- Publisher: European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers
- Source: Conference Proceedings, 6th Congress of the Balkan Geophysical Society, Oct 2011, cp-262-00088
Abstract
The study region is part of Kruja tectonic zone and represents a syncline structure. City of Kruja has objects with architectural, historical and museum values and is built on Quaternary deposits, on the slopes with inclines 20-100, represented by lithological formations: colluvial, eluvial, deluvial and proluvial. Colluvial deposits represented by slope breccias with values of 30 m thickness are stable in facing of geodynamic phenomena. Deluvial deposits consist of clay and sand combination up to 5 m thickness, unstable and in the presence of groundwaters generate slides, while eluvial ones allow circulation of rainfall waters and weaken the contact of clay basement. Activity of erosion phenomena, neotectonic, tectonic movements in the areas of flisch spreading in this city, has brought the slides, crashes, damage to roads, cracks or demolition of houses as well as detachment of a part of the massive rock, on which lies the museum castle of "George Kastriot Scanderbeg