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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


Granito bianco Montorfano

Homogeneous medium to coarse-grained granite; the light colour is due to the white colour of feldspars and to the minor abundance of biotite. Mineralogical composition: plagioclase (oligoclase), quartz, K-feldspar, biotite, ± hornblende; apatite, zircon, allanite are the accessory minerals.
Granito bianco Montorfano


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