2PC - THE PERMO-TRIASSIC OF THE DOLOMITES AND THE SOUTHERN ALPS

The fieldtrip will focus on the most important Permo-Triassic floras from the Dolomites (UNESCO world heritage) combining the visit to fossiliferous outcrops with visits of chosen local museums and plant collections. Starting from Padova, the first day we will visit Sinich/Sinigo where in situ stems are preserved in lake deposits intercalated between two volcanic eruptions of early Permian age. A short trip to the unique outdoor museum of Mälten/Meltina shows the impressive dimension of some of the trees during the late Permian of this area. In the evening we will visit the Museum of Nature South Tyrol (Bozen/Bolzano) which houses the plant fossils from the most important localities of the Dolomites, such as Bletterbach (Permian), Kühwiesenkopf/Monte Prà della Vacca and Piz da Peres (both Anisian) and Prags/Braies and Wengen/La Valle (Ladinian). The second day includes the visit to the Bletterbach gorge (part of the UNESCO world heritage of the Dolomites), where sediments of late Permian-Early Triassic age can be walked through. Afterwards we will visit the museum of the Geoparc Bletterbach. On the third day we will move to the Seceda, one of the most impressive successions of upper Permian-Middle Triassic sediments of the Dolomites. From the top of the mountain we can not only discuss the local geologBletterbach panorama 1-2.jpgy but also palynological data obtained from a borehole of this area. The Museum de Gherdeina (town) houses the original material of the famous conifer Ortiseia as well as interesting Ladinian plants collected from this area. On the last day we will discuss the Middle-Late Triassic evolution of the environment and  vegetation from two of the main famous Dolomite Passes: Falzarego and Giau Pass followed by the visit of the Rinaldo Zardini Paleontological Museum of Cortina before moving back to Padova in the evening.


Duration: 4 days.
Departure and arrival: Padova, September, 1-4, 2014
Number of participants: minimum 8 – maximum 25
For more information please contact:

Evelyn Kustatscher, Congress@naturmuseum.it

Costs: € 320 (sharing room), € 400 (single room)

In the costs are included guide book, the hotels, the transport (bus, car, cable car), lunches and dinners and entrances at the museum.



Evelyn Kustatscher and Guido Roghi