Geography of the Apennines
Introduction to the geography of the northern Apennines
By Redazione Published: 18/08/2012
The northern Apennines stretch from Liguria to the Tuscan-Romagnol area, reaching the shores of the Adriatic. This mountain chain, which culminates in the summit of Monte Cimone at 2165 metres, has a landscape that is…
Introduction to the geography of the southern Apennines
By Redazione Published: 18/08/2012
The main axis of the southern Apennines chain runs along the N.W. - S.E. axis of Italy. The morphological structure of the southern Apennines is deeply marked by the river network flowing towards the Tyrrhenian…
Introduction to the geography of the central Apennines
By Redazione Published: 18/08/2012
By central Apennines we usually mean the set of mountain ranges of Umbria and the Marche and of Abruzzo. We said earlier that the Apennines form an arc with its convex side towards the east.…
List of the Apennine peaks over 2000 metres
By Redazione Published: 21/06/2012
Appennino.Tv officially recognises the Albrizio-Carusi-Osti-Rolle list of the Apennine 2000s. The list is adopted by the Club 2000m and certified by the Società Geografica Italiana (Italian Geographical Society). Many members of the Appennino.Tv Community are…
List of the 2000-metre peaks arranged by mountain group
By Redazione Published: 21/06/2012
This list, on the other hand, is a modified version of the list by Alberto Osti Guerrazzi, drawn up by the Club 2000m, which has arranged the peaks by mountain group and, within each single…
Orogenic phenomena - a brief introduction
By Redazione Published: 13/06/2012
As we saw in the theory of plate tectonics, the main cause of mountain formation is the collision between plates. Specifically, it is the collision between plates carrying continental crust that would give rise to…
Formation of the Italian mountains
By Redazione Published: 13/06/2012
The birth, formation and evolution of the Italian mountains is closely linked to the geological history of the European tectonic plate and of the African one.The process that shaped the lands as we know them…
The birth of mountains and plate tectonics
By Redazione Published: 12/06/2012
As two well-known LIFE writers, Lorus Milne and Margery Milne, once wrote:“There are many surprising things about mountains, but perhaps the most astonishing of all is the very fact that they exist.”We spend more and…
Mountains in geography
By Redazione Published: 12/06/2012
From the basics of geology we learn that the relief of the earth is the result of the slow movement of the tectonic plates, of their colliding, folding and rising, and of the erosive action…