3D models of geological outcrops and structures

Digital models from field pictures  to visualize the complexity and variability of geological objects

Feel free to use these models (some can be downloaded from the link), just give the credits….

Italian Alps, Penninic domain

Cogne, Aosta Valley

Amphibolite, with epidote, intensely folded, outcropping along the river bed (metabasalts, Jurassic to Cretaceous)

Italian Alps, Southern Alps

Como Lake, Menaggio

Carbonate platform of the Dolomia Principale, inner platform, rich in large Megalodontid bivalves (Norian, Triassic)

Northern Apennine

Bardi

Disharmonic folds in fine-grained turbidites (Scabiazza Sandstone, Late Cretaceous)

Southern Alps, Italy

Vajont Valley

Bedded Jurassic, basinal limestone with irregular chert nodules concentrated in specific beds

Wahiba sands, Oman

Aeolian dunes

Eroded cross laminations in Olocene aeolian dunes, partly cemented

North-eastern Oman

Sur-Ras Hal Hadd: Mother of all outcrops

Folded and faulted, well-bedded, basinal  cherty limestone 

South western Iceland

Thingvellir National Park

Rope basaltic lava at Thingvellir, Quaternary

South western Iceland

Reynisdrangar, Vik

Columnar basalts  on the seashore

Southern Iceland

Svartifoss waterfall

Fallen block of comunar basalt

Italian Alps, Southern Alps

Maniva Pass

Alternation of Triassic limestone and marls with abundant bioturbations on the bedding surface at the top. Angolo Limestone, Anisian.

Italian Alps, Southern Alps

Maniva Pass

Bedded, well-selected sandstone with parallel laminations and ripple marks. Collio Formation, Pian delle Baste Member, Early Permian

Italian Alps, Southern Alps

Maniva Pass

Detail of laminated, bedded sandstone, with ripple marks. Collio Formation, Pian delle Baste Member, Early Permian

base_ARV
Click here for the geological interpretation

Italian Alps, Southern Alps

Coe Pass

Hard ground with ooidal limestone covered by nodular “rosso ammonitico” facies, with Fe-Mn nodules. San Vigilio Oolite (below, Toarcian-early Aalenian) and Rosso ammonico veronese (Late Bajocian-Tithonian)

Italian Alps, Southern Alps

Pizzo del Diavolo

Heterolithic deposit (siltstone and andstone) with current ripple marks alternating with parallel laminations, stored on a geological map (Pizzo del Diavolo Formation, Early Permian)

Northern Apennines

Ligurian units

Pillow lavas of basaltic composition from  the oceanic crust of the Ligurian units, with evident spherical and tubular lobes of lava

Northern Appennines, Italy

Apuane Alps

Isoclinal folds folded by a later deformation event in a metamorphic unit: marbles with chert layers (original deep, water sediments, Jurassic)

Northern Appennines, Italy

Apuane Alps

Complex folding in the matamorphic units of the Apuane Alps (original basinal limestone rich in crinoids with chert layers and nodules, “Calcari a Entrochi”, Jurassic)

Italian Alps, Western Austroalpine

Mount Emilius, Aosta Valley

Folded eclogitic micaschists from the Mount Emilius Nappe, recording intense Alpine HP-LT deformations overprinting Variscan metamorphics

More models are arriving!