PREFACE

Section 1 gives the introductory and background information, including some technological and scientific issues of the organization and execution of tasks. Section 2 provides the technical aspects that were involved in the data acquisition and processing. Sections 3 and 4 discuss the initial results, the on-going data processing and usage, and give some concluding remarks. Cruise summary (table A1), Diary of operations (table A4), acronyms (table A) and some data processing procedures that were used in the production of this report along with additional technical details and data are presented in the Appendix.

Figure 1: Morphology of the Southern Tyrrhenian Sea (bathymetric data from MARANI2004-TIRMAP). The yellow box indicates the location of the study area. The top left inset is a schematic structural sketch after NERI2003, DAGOSTINO2004, and BILLI2006