REPLY to thE CommEnt on thE A RtiCLE “EnginEERing-gEoLogiCAL insights into thE gYPsum-bEARing dEPosits of PuntA dELLE PiEtRE nERE (PugLiA REgion, itALY)”

the authors would like to express their thanks to the discus-sers Festaet alii for the interest in our paper and the related com-ments. in this reply we present our explanations, hoping that the latter will help to clarify the points raised by the discussers.primarily, the authors of the cited article did not focus their research on the origin of gypsum deposits (an issue co-vered by a wide literature), but rather on their delimitation in the subsurface, whose presence is a limiting factor for the land use, as the case of lesina marina shows