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The Mt. Catria – Mt. Nerone Ridge in the North-Marchean Apennines (Central Italy): A Potential Geopark? Definition and Strengths of a Great Geological, Natural, and Cultural Heritage
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: Received: 21 April 2023 / Approved: 23 April 2023 / Online: 23 April 2023 (03:13:10 CEST)
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Valentini, L.; Guerra, V.; Nesci, O. The Mt. Catria – Mt. Nerone Ridge in the North-Marchean Apennines (Central Italy): A Potential Geopark? Definition and Strengths of a Great Geological, Natural, and Cultural Heritage. Preprints2023, 2023040737. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202304.0737.v1
Valentini, L.; Guerra, V.; Nesci, O. The Mt. Catria – Mt. Nerone Ridge in the North-Marchean Apennines (Central Italy): A Potential Geopark? Definition and Strengths of a Great Geological, Natural, and Cultural Heritage. Preprints 2023, 2023040737. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202304.0737.v1
Valentini, L.; Guerra, V.; Nesci, O. The Mt. Catria – Mt. Nerone Ridge in the North-Marchean Apennines (Central Italy): A Potential Geopark? Definition and Strengths of a Great Geological, Natural, and Cultural Heritage. Preprints2023, 2023040737. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202304.0737.v1
APA Style
Valentini, L., Guerra, V., & Nesci, O. (2023). The Mt. Catria – Mt. Nerone Ridge in the North-Marchean Apennines (Central Italy): A Potential Geopark? Definition and Strengths of a Great Geological, Natural, and Cultural Heritage. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202304.0737.v1
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Valentini, L., Veronica Guerra and Olivia Nesci. 2023 "The Mt. Catria – Mt. Nerone Ridge in the North-Marchean Apennines (Central Italy): A Potential Geopark? Definition and Strengths of a Great Geological, Natural, and Cultural Heritage" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202304.0737.v1
Abstract
The North-Marchean Apennines (central Italy) host an extraordinary geological and geomor-phological heritage, significant for its richness, diversity, rarity, scientific interest, aesthetic ap-peal, naturalistic, cultural, and educational values.
The area, which covers 600 square kilometres and includes numerous spectacular geosites, embraces 18 municipalities in the provinces of Pesaro-Urbino and Ancona. These municipalities are distributed along the ridge that includes the peaks of Mts. Strega, Catria, Acuto, Petrano, Tenetra and Nerone and covers the parallel ridge of Mts. Paganuccio-Pietralata, together with the spectacular Furlo Gorge. It is a real geological museum outdoors, which, with its continuous stratigraphic succession of 200 million years, its geosites, and a vast system of karstic caves, is distinctive for geologists all over the world.
This study aims to analyse the environmental heritage of the North-Marchean Apennines through the integrated study and description of the geo-environmental aspects of 7 geosites, se-lected from a list of 44, presented here and localized. These 7 geosites were chosen as being par-ticularly significant from a scientific, naturalistic as well as aesthetic, and cultural point of view.
The richness of its geological and geomorphological heritage and the great wealth of its naturalistic, historical, and cultural aspects make it an area with high educational, tourist and recreational potential.
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