The geology of the Adamello Brenta Nature Park is fascinating and complex. The exceptional naturalistic and geological richness meant that it was recognized as a World Geoparco by UNESCO.
Characterized by the Dolomites of Brenta with its unique stone castles adorned with towers, bell towers, bold spiers and dizzying walls. Here the rocks tell of ancient seas. For millions of years in fact before becoming stone, the sediments have accumulated on the shallow waters, now disappeared. Opposite is the impressive Adamello-Presanella mountain range. Its rock, the very hard tonalite, was formed from the magma which ascended through the earth’s crust and remained imprisoned there.
The geology of the different rocks witnesses a long history of over 350 million years. In the Geopark, very different environments followed one another. In the various geological periods of the past volcanoes were replaced by deserts, from the bottom of crystalline tropical seas to the current peaks covered by glaciers.
Paleozoic (more than 300 Million years)
Permian (300 – 251 Mya)
Triassic (251 – 200 Mya)
Jurassic (200 – 145 Mya)
Cretaceous (145 – 65 Mya)
Paleogene (65 – 23 Mya)
Neogene (23 – 2,5 Mya)
