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)
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
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!
