Tiber Valley

Tiber Valley
Naming
Native nameValle del Tevere (Italian)
Geography
CountryItaly
State/ProvinceEmilia-Romagna, Tuscany, Umbria, Lazio
Coordinates42°08′00″N 12°35′00″E / 42.133333°N 12.583333°E / 42.133333; 12.583333
RiverTiber

The Tiber Valley (Italian: Valle del Tevere) is the largest geographical part of the Tiber basin [Wikidata][1] of the Tiber river included in the Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany, Umbria, and the Lazio regions; it is characterized by river terraces and floodplain areas that extend from the Apennine belt up to the delta of the Tiber river in the Lazio coast [it] of the Tyrrhenian Sea.

Geology

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The Tiber basin is made up of four main morpho-structural environments:[2]

  • the upper Tiber basin, composed mainly of terrigenous sediment in flysch facies of Tuscan origin (on the right bank north of Lake Trasimeno) and Umbria-Marche (on the left bank)
  • the Apennine carbonate ridge, which occupies the eastern and southern sector, made up of carbonate reliefs;
  • the Tiber graben with its marine to continental facies deposits, the intermountain basins;
  • the volcanic systems of the Volsini Mountains, Cimini, Sabatini and Alban Hills, which occupy the southwestern sector.
Graben

Territory and environment

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Protected natural areas

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  • Tiber River Park - Umbria Region[7]
  • Interregional Tiber River Park[8][9][10]
  • Delta of the Tiber - Roman Coast State Nature Reserve[11][12]


References

  1. ^ "Information on the basin" (in Italian). Autorità di Bacino del fiume Tevere.
  2. ^ "Autorita' Bacino del Tevere: LINEAMENTI GEOLOGICI DEL BACINO DEL TEVERE" (PDF) (in Italian).
  3. ^ "PaleoTevere" (in Italian). Retrieved 2 January 2022.
  4. ^ "Il Pliocene e il quaternario della Media valle del Tevere" (PDF) (in Italian).
  5. ^ "BACINO DEL TEVERE (Graben del Tevere, valle del Chiani) pag 189" (in Italian).
  6. ^ "LINEAMENTI GEOLOGICI DEL BACINO DEL TEVERE" (PDF) (in Italian).
  7. ^ "Regione Umbria: Parco Regionale del Fiume Tevere".
  8. ^ "Parco Fluviale Interregionale del Tevere" (PDF). 15 February 2019.
  9. ^ ""Parco Interregionale del Fiume Tevere" Accordo di pianificazione sistema narnese ternano, Comuni di Otricoli e Calvi dell'Umbria, Pag 4".
  10. ^ "Proposta di legge regionale n. 160 del 18 aprile 2014 concernente: "Istituzione del parco fluviale regionale del Tevere"" (PDF).
  11. ^ "Riserva Litorale Romano | Riserva Litorale Romano" (in Italian). Retrieved 26 October 2021.
  12. ^ "Centro Habitat Mediterraneo Ostia - Lipu Onlus" (in Italian). Retrieved 26 October 2021.
Rimini (Adriatic coast, left in photo) - Marecchia Valley - Apennine Mountains - Sansepolcro - Tiber Valley - Lake Trasimeno (light blue-green lake) - Bolsena, Vico, Bracciano and Albano, Vulcanic Lakes - Rome and delta of Tiber in Fiumicino Tyrrhenian Sea, photo taken from ISS
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