Apuan Alps

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Apuan Alps
Location of the Apuan Alps in Northern Italy

Location of the Apuan Alps in Northern Italy

Highest peak Monte Pisanino ( 1945  m slm )
location Italy , Tuscany
part of Apennines
Coordinates 44 ° 8 '  N , 10 ° 13'  E Coordinates: 44 ° 8 '  N , 10 ° 13'  E
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The Apuan Alps ( Alpi Apuane in Italian ) are located in the northwest of Tuscany , between Lucca and La Spezia . The mountain range is bounded in the northwest by the Magra ( Lunigiana ) river, in the east by the Serchio ( Garfagnana ) river and in the southwest by the Versilia . It connects to the northwestern Ligurian Apennines and stands out clearly from the other areas of the Tuscan Apennines due to its rugged shape and marble quarries . Despite the name Alps , this part of the mountain range has nothing to do with the Alps in the real sense. The highest peak in the Apuan Alps is Monte Pisanino ( 1946  m slm ). The name of the ancient Ligurian tribe of the Apuans lives on in the name of these mountains .

summit

  • Monte Pisanino (1946 m)
  • Monte Tambura (1890 m)
  • Monte Cavallo (1888 m)
  • Pania della Croce (1858 m)
  • Monte Grondìlice (1808 m)
  • Monte Contrario (1788 m)
  • Pizzo d'Uccello (1781 m)
  • Monte Sumbra (1765 m)
  • Monte Sagro (1749 m)

geology

The Apuan Alps are geologically integrated into the Apennines . The Apuan Alps formed in the Paleozoic , about 240 million years ago, on the older subsoil of clay slates , sandstones and breccias . In the Upper Triassic , 200 million years ago, a shallow, warm sea developed in which limestone fossils sedimented on the sea floor. Since the sea was well ventilated, pure lime could form, from which the later Carrara marble emerged. The deposits were initially solidified into limestone .

Due to the continental drift, different rocks were superimposed and shifted, resulting in slate, phylite, porphyry slate, etc. The sediment layers were compressed under very high pressures at great depths and chemically changed and deformed at very high temperatures, and the limestone was transformed into marble.

The formation of the Alps began 60 million years ago as two plates of the cooled earth crust, Africa and Europe, moved towards each other, and the Apuan Alps came into being 30 million years ago.

  • Pizzo d'Uccello

  • Monte Corchia

  • View of the Monte Procinto (1039 m)

  • View of the Monte Nona (1279 m)

  • Monte Forato

  • Via Vandelli on Monte Tambura

Marble deposits

In the western Apuan Alps, near Carrara , there is one of the largest marble deposits in the world, where Carrara marble is mined. The mining of this marble mostly takes place in the mountains at an altitude of 1000 to 1300 meters. The highest quarry is the Cervaiole at about 1300 meters above sea level near Seravezza . The quarries were already operated in the mountains in Roman times . On Mount Altissimo and at Fantiscritti there are quarries that were used by Michelangelo during the Renaissance .

Web links

Commons : Alpi Apuane  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Luciana and Tiziano Mannoni: Marble, Material and Culture. Callwey, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-7667-0505-9 , p. 52 ff.