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Geomorphology establishes a complete picture of the Earth’s landform characteristics of a given territory from the moment of its formation until the present time, and predicting from this the future evolution of space-time. In the forensic perspective, geomorphology, and specifically geomorphological surveying, often represents a basic cognitive approach to the framing of issues related to the interaction between both anthropogenic structures and grounds, both incorrect and/or illegal activities implemented against the environment.
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Sedimentary body is defined as a portion of a local sedimentary sequence in which both the internal sedimentological features and the discontinuities that delimit it in space allow its differentiation with respect to other parts of the same sequence.
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D’Orefice, M., Graciotti, R. (2017). Forensic Geomorphology. In: Di Maggio, R., Barone, P. (eds) Geoscientists at Crime Scenes. Soil Forensics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58048-7_6
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