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THE TERRITORY
History and culture
Geological Asset
Alps building and nappes
Geological Map
Geology and production
THE HISTORICAL STONES
THE MATERIALS
Beole
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Marmi
Quarziti
Serizzi
THE LABORATORY
BLUE PROVINCE
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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


Marmo Palissandro oniciato

Fine-grained calc-silicate dolomitic marble, characterized by the presence of dolomite and phlogopite. The phlogopite lamellae are coarser than in the Palissandro Classico and are restricted to discrete layers that define the main foliation. The stone presents the same mineralogical composition of the Palissandro Classico marble.
Marmo Palissandro oniciato


THE HISTORICAL STONES

Malpensa Airport
The most abundant Ossolano material is represented by serizzos, an ortogneiss, similar to beolas with regard to age, but with a different grain pattern and level of deformation. The high concentration of serizzo quarries is located in the top part of the Ossola Valley and in the Valleys of Antigorio and Formazza. Serizzo has been used also for flooring the Milan and Frankfurt airports, just like the coverings of the underground in Milan , Bruxelles and Singapore. LE PIETRE STORICHE

 
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