The Lame Rosse geosite (Northern Apennines, Italy): a glance at its formation processes

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought many Italians closer to the Nature, with a growing interest in trekking and related activities. To maintain this renewed interest in our natural environment, it will be important to further increase the awareness of visitors, also thanks to an accurate but, at the same time, simple and understandable scientific divulgation of the main features of most important geosites. The “Lame Rosse” geosite (Fig. 1) has seen an incredible increase in visitors in recent years (the hashtag “#lamerosse” on Instagram indexes over a 16.5k posts in November 2021). Despite its fame, few geological information is available for the site. The aim of this note (derived from the BSc thesis of one of the authors, GP) is to provide a brief sedimentological and stratigraphic characterization of one of the most fascinating geosites of the Italian peninsula.