Motte di Volpego
| Motte di Volpego | ||
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| Waters | Venice lagoon | |
| Geographical location | 45 ° 24 ' N , 12 ° 16' E | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Motte di Volpego , formerly also Volpadego , represent a group of islands in the central lagoon of Venice . There, a motta is used to describe a small hill protruding from the water. The moth are located south of Fusina . Nearby is an important archaeological site on the island of San Marco in Bocca Lama , which was inhabited until the 15th century and where the oldest Venetian galley was excavated.
At the islands there is one of the measuring stations of the local oceanographers; In 1966 and 1967, drill cores were taken - they reached a depth of -30 m at the edge of the island in August 1963 - which revealed peat in layers that are around 20,000 years old. There was also evidence of a very early return of the fir, long before the end of the last glacial period , for the time 23,000 years ago . For the late 3rd and the beginning of the 4th century a river course could be proven, but the assignment to the Brenta is uncertain.
Remarks
- ^ Land Subsidence. Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Land Subsidence held in Venice, Italy, 19-25 March 1984 , Volume 3, p. 320.
- ↑ Geologisches Jahrbuch 28–32 (1972), pp. 23–25.
- ^ Enrico Bonatti: Late-Pleistocene and postglacial stratigraphy of a sediment core from the lagoon of Venice (Italy) , in: Memoria di Biogeografia Adriatica 7 (1968) 9-28.