Hiking in the badlands (Calanchi)
Chiara Arrighi
University of Florence, Florence, Italy
The picture was taken in the "Calanchi Valley" in central Italy (Civita di Bagnoregio, Viterbo).
Badlands are a type of dry terrain where softer sedimentary rocks and clay-rich soils have been extensively eroded by wind and water. This area has experienced many morphological changes in the last century and the small village of Civita di Bagnoregio, on top of one of these formations, is slowly disappearing...
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Reuse
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) (opens in a new window)Credit: Chiara Arrighi (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
Properties
Type
Image
Format
JPG
Size
7.3 MB
Width
6000 px
Height
4000 px
Aspect
3:2
Brand
Nikon
Model
D5500
Exposure
66 mm f/5.6 1/500 s ISO 100
Taken
22 May 2017
Coordinates
42.6311, 12.1257
Tint
Moderate yellow
Submitted
15 February 2018
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