The Euganean Hills: guide of the fieldtrip

Abstract

The Euganean Hills are extinct subvolcanic edifices exposed by erosion, which removed most of their thick sedimentary cover and part of the underlying eruptive rocks. These Hills rise from the alluvial plain surrounding them as isolated relief south-east of Padova (North-East Italy). In the Euganean Hills outcrop Upper Jurassic to Lower Oligocene marine sediments. Volcanic rocks belong to two magmatic events of Upper Eocene (basalts) and of Lower Oligocene age (rhyolites, trachytes, latites) respectively. In this fieldtrip are presented and discussed an up-to-date illustration of the geology, of the geomorphology and of the well-known euganean hydrothermal system of Abano Terme-Montegrotto.