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Keywords
Geosites
Geodiversity
Geoheritage
Apuan Alps
Italy
Mots-clés
Geosites
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Alpes Apuanes
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1
Introduction
The outstanding environmental value of the Apuan Alps
has long been acknowledged and this has allowed the area to
be subjected to environmental protection under the jurisdic-
tion of the Nature Park of the Apuan Alps, the regional
authority de
The Apuan Alps Geopark, founded in 1997, belongs to the
European and the Global Geoparks Networks since 2011. It
comprises the Apuan Alps, an orographic mountain range in
the northwest of Tuscany, in Northern-Central Italy. The
Alps reach an altitude of almost 2,000 m. They are separated
from the main range of the Northern Apennines to the east
by the Serchio valley, and are limited to the west by the
Versilia plain at a short distance from the Ligurian Sea
(Fig.
1
).
ned by the Law No 65/1997 of the Tuscany
Region. The Geopark represents, in a relatively limited area
(about 500 km
2
), an exceptional geological heritage (Gray
2004
). The interpretation of this Apuan geoheritage provides
insight into many fundamental geological processes and
Earth Science concepts, such as tectonics, geomorphology,
mineralogy,
glaciation
and
glacial
landforms,
karst
Fig. 1
Geographic location of
Apuan Alps in Northern-Central
Italy
