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L'ASSETTO GEOLOGICO DELL'AREA


The Verbano Cusio Ossola Province is located in the central western Alps and has had great importance for geological studies about the Alps since the last century.
The Alps are a double-vergent chain : an European one and an African one, the southern Alps divided by an important tectonic line named Lineamento Periadriatico or Insubric Line... L'ASSETTO GEOLOGICO DELL'AREA



Serizzo Sempione

Well-foliated granitic orthogneiss. Fine-grained with homogeneous texture, rarely with augen texture. Pale grey in colour due to minor occurrence of biotite with respect to the Antigorio and Formazza varieties. Mineralogiocal composition: quartz, K-feldspar, plagioclase (An 25-30%), biotite and muscovite.
Serizzo Sempione


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