Geosciences (Jun 2020)

Fractal Dimension Analysis Applied to Soil CO<sub>2</sub> Fluxes in Campotosto’s Seismic Area, Central Italy

  • Simone D’Incecco,
  • Piero Di Carlo,
  • Eleonora Aruffo,
  • Nikolaos Chatzisavvas,
  • Ermioni Petraki,
  • Georgios Priniotakis,
  • Ioannis Voyiatzis,
  • Panayiotis H. Yannakopoulos,
  • Dimitrios Nikolopoulos

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences10060233
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 6
p. 233

Abstract

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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.

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