Civita di Bagnoregio - The Dying Town
by Elenora van Rijsingen, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France
This little town in the Italian countryside is famous because it is slowly eroding away. The volcanic rocks on which the village was built overlie marine clay deposits, which now appear as the sharply eroded ridges surrounding Civita di Bagnoregio.
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- Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology (990)
- Geomorphology (1404)
- Historical (162)
- Natural Hazards (526)
- Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Palaeontology (529)
Location
- Europe (3885)
- Southern Europe (1685)
- Italy (433)
- Exact location (12.1134 E, 42.6275 N)
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- erosion (95)
- italy (42)
- volcanic rock (15)
- landslides (3)
- eroded ridges (1)
- marine clay (2)
- civita di bagnoregio (1)
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Nikon D3300
Software: Lightroom
Taken on 20
January
2018
Submitted on 17 April 2019
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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Credit
Elenora van Rijsingen (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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