Calanques

Tourist Area
Matildic Zone

Apennines

Description: The friability of clayey rocks wich form the most common hills substrate makes understand the origin of one of the most typical and showy phenomenon in the Apennines: I CALANCHI (The Calanques).
To point out this type of superficial erosion, the Anglo-Saxon use the appropriate term of badlands.
The Calanques in fact represent deep erosion phenomenon caused by water in clayey areas. It is created in that way an unusual and suggestive landscape with arid and bare slopes which are erosed in a characteristic way, with small and narrow valleys, very close to each other and separated by clear and steep ridges.
This type of morfology, without wood covering and which is not stable, is due to the erosion of rain that, dissipated in a lot of streams scratches deep grooves and vertical walls, giving them a completely singular aspect.
The central groove of every Calanque fan-shaped has a muddy substances panhandle which are come down by the woods, these casts descend very slowly and with the sun action their surfaces solidify, creating a dry crust with deep fissure, and they are dangerouse because of they hide still fluid mud.
subverticali in questa formazione molto erodibile, facendole assumere un aspetto del tutto singolare.
Striking Calanque landscapes can be seen from Canossa Castle and from Baiso.