Geological Uniqueness and Potential Geotouristic Appeal of Murge and Premurge, the First Territory in Puglia (Southern Italy) Aspiring to Become a UNESCO Global Geopark
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Published:2023-04-30
Issue:5
Volume:13
Page:131
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ISSN:2076-3263
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Container-title:Geosciences
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Geosciences
Author:
Tropeano Marcello1ORCID, Caldara Massimo A.1, De Santis Vincenzo1, Festa Vincenzo1ORCID, Parise Mario1ORCID, Sabato Luisa1, Spalluto Luigi1, Francescangeli Ruggero1, Iurilli Vincenzo1ORCID, Mastronuzzi Giuseppe A.1ORCID, Petruzzelli Marco1, Bellini Filippo1, Cicala Marianna1ORCID, Lippolis Elio1, Petti Fabio M.2, Antonelli Matteo3ORCID, Cardia Stefano1, Conti Jacopo3, La Perna Rafael1, Marino Maria1ORCID, Marsico Antonella1ORCID, Sacco Enrico3, Fiore Antonello4, Simone Oronzo4, Valletta Salvatore4, D’Ettorre Umberto S.1, De Giorgio Vincenzo1, Liso Isabella S.1ORCID, Stigliano Eliana1
Affiliation:
1. Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e Geoambientali, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, 70100 Bari, Italy 2. Muse—Museo delle Scienze di Trento, 38400 Trento, Italy 3. Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00100 Roma, Italy 4. SIGEA, Società Italiana di Geologia Ambientale, 00100 Roma, Italy
Abstract
At the end of November 2021, a large area of Puglia (an administrative region in Southern Italy) was officially nominated as new aUGGp (aspiring UNESCO Global Geopark) by the Italian National Commission of UNESCO. This area comprises the northwestern part of the Murge territory, where a Cretaceous sector of the Apulia Carbonate Platform crops out, and part of the adjacent Premurge territory, where the southwestward lateral continuation of the same platform (being flexed toward the Southern Apennines Chain) is covered by thin Plio-Quaternary foredeep deposits. The worldwide geological uniqueness of the aspiring Geopark (Murge aUGGp) is that the area is the only in situ remnant of the Adria Plate, the old continental plate almost entirely squeezed between the Africa and Eurasia Plates. In such a context, the Murge area (part of the Apulia Foreland) is a virtually undeformed sector of Adria, while other territories of the plate are and/or were involved in the subduction/collision processes. In the aspiring Geopark, the crust of Adria is still rooted to its mantle, and the Cretaceous evolution of the continent is widely recorded in the Murge area thanks to the shallow-water carbonate succession of one of the largest peri-Tethys carbonate platforms (the Apulia Carbonate Platform). The aspiring Geopark also comprises the Premurge area, which represents the outer Southern Apennines foredeep, whose Plio-Quaternary evolution is spectacularly exposed thanks to an “anomalous” regional middle-late Quaternary uplift. Despite the presence of numerous geological singularities of international importance, it would be important, from a geotourist point of view, to propose a regional framework of the geology of the aUGGp before introducing visitors to the significance of the individual geosites, whose importance could be amplified if included in the geoevolutionary context of the Murge aUGGp.
Funder
UNESCO Global Geopark GeoSciences IR CUP
Subject
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
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