IMAGE GALLERY
ALASKA
Mount Mc Kinley, m 6.300 (Parco Nazionale Denali)
River Savage, with a very high sediment
load (P.N. Denali)
Arctic Tundra landscape (P.N. Katmai)
Truncated valley (P.N. Kenai Fjords)
Hollgate Glacier (P.N. Kenai Fjords)
Chiswell Islands (Alaska National Maritime Refuge)
WEST USA
Lower Fall, Yellowstone National Park
Cross-bedding in sandstones, Zion N.P.
Grand Canyon, Grand Canyon N.P.
Monument Valley, Navajo Reservation Area
Clay-limestone pinnacles, Bryce N.P.
Painted Desert, Utah
GALAPAGOS
Darwin Lake, Isabela Island
Volcanic pinnacle and opposite beaches,
Bartolomè Island
Minor crater, Bartolomè Island
High coast, Espagnola Island
Ropy lava, Fernandina Island
Twin craters, Santa Cruz Island
SAHARA
(Ahaggar N.P., Algeria)
Mount Tizoujadi, m 2600
Sahara rock/sand landscape 1
Sahara rock/sand landscape 2
Tagrerà pinnacle
Ripplemarks, with the typical desert varnish
Rupestrian inscriptions
ETHIOPIA / KENYA
Termaber escarpment (m 3.000). Ethiopia Rift Valley
Lake Abaya (ex Margherita). Ethiopia Rift Valley
Lake Tana Fall. North Ethiopia
Mount Kilimanjaro, observed from Amboseli N.P. (West Kenya)
Lake Nakuru, with one million flamingos (Kenya Rift Valley)
Masai Mara highplain (West Kenya)
ICELAND
The explosion of a geyser, near Geysir
Godafoss fall
Cape Dyrholaey double arch, in basalt rock, the southest Iceland cape
Cape Reynisfjall, in basalt rock
Sandur, the black glacial sands, along the southern coast
Reynisfjall historical cave, in giant columnar basalts
Jokulsarlon lagoon, where an ice tongue arrives in the sea
OTHER WORLD
GEOSITES
Ayers Rock, Uluru N.P. (Australia)
Mts. Olgas, Uluru N.P. (Australia)
Perito Moreno glacier, Los Glaciares N.P. (Patagonia Argentina)
Paine Towers, Paine Towers N.P. (Patagonia Chile)
Wadi Rum Desert (Jordan)
Niger river (Mali)
DOLOMITES
Western Dolomites landscape
Vaiolet Towers, m 2.800
Sella Massif, m 3.000
Marmolada glacier
Carezza lake
Segonzano Earth Pillars (Piramidi di Terra)
ABRUZZO
Voltigno polje depression (Gran Sasso-Laga N.P.)
Castel del Monte fault
Zompo lo Schioppo spring/fall
Scanno lake, m 950
Elephant/rhino fossils, Pagliare di Sassa (L'Aquila)
Atri clay badlands (calanchi)
SARDINIA
Capo Testa granite landscape
Capo Caccia limestone landscape
Supramonte and Gorropu canyon
Giara di Gesturi basalt landscape
Rio Piscinas giant dunes
Masua (Iglesias) coast
TREMITI ISLANDS
The
island of S. Domino: I Pagliai, Eocene clay-limestones
S. Domino island: Bue Marino Cave and one of the many landslides
S. Nicola island: the XII cent. Monastery, built on Eocene clay-limestones.
Cretaccio islet seen from S. Nicola Monastery
The island of Caprara observed from S. Nicola
Caprara island: the “Architiello”, an example of the Tremiti very strong coastal
erosion
EOLIE
ISLANDS
Lipari
island: a famous landscape of the SW Lipari coast: behind the island of Volcano
The island of Lipari: the Pietralunga volcanic pinnacle, southern coast
Lipari island: the Monte Pilato giant pumices quarries, eastern coast
Vulcano island: the active crater, with sulphur vapours
Stromboli volcano-island: Ginostra village and the southern coast
Stromboli volcano-island: “strombolian” nocturnal activity
ETNA
VOLCANO
Etna:
a winter aerial view of eruption activity in the summit craters and along its
flanks
Etna: lava flow inside the caldera of Valle del Bove
Etna: an old lava-flow along the road from Catania. After few years trees grow
again
Etna: the exceptional sunset, at 2,500 m a.s.l., over the clouds
Etna: on the summit crater, at 3,200 m a.s.l., with Francesco Geremia
Etna: an explosion activity inside the summit crater
EGADI
ISLANDS
The
island of Favignana: Cala Rossa calcarenite landscape
Favignana island: one of the 100 historical calcarenite quarries, along the
northern coast
Favignana: one recent calcarenite large quarry
The island of Marettimo: Mesozoic limestones along the SE coast
Marettimo island: the famous “Grotta Bombarda”, in faulted Mesozoic dolostones
Levanzo island: outstanding Mesozoic dolostones strata near the “Grotta dei
Genovesi”
PELAGIE
ISLANDS
The
island of Lampedusa: a fragment of the North-Africa limestone basement
Lampedusa island: the famous “Isola dei Conigli”, along the southern coast
Lampedusa northern coast: a rare, perfect coastal pot-hole in limestones
Linosa island: the small, old volcano of “Monte Nero”
Linosa: the volcanic, black sand of “Cala Pozzolana di Ponente”
The volcanic island of Linosa: “I Fili” site, thin layers of blackish ash tuffs
OTHER ITALIAN GEOSITES
Tre Cime di Lavaredo, Dolomites
Cinque Terre, Liguria
Gran Sasso m 2.950, Abruzzo
Vesuvio crater: the volcano is sleeping from 1948
Campi
Flegrei, another Campania volcanic area, after Vesuvio, at explosion risk
The
rare twin volcanic lakes of Monticchio (Basilicata)