Sant'Andrea Val di Savena
Monghidoro
Monghidoro
Subject: Rocks and fossils
Toponym: Cannovetta
Type: Sandstone
Municipality: Monghidoro
Locality: S. Andrea Val di Savena
Description
Medium-grained lithic arkosic sandstone with a dominant quartz-feldspar component, of the Monghidoro Formation (Liguride Units - Late Cretaceous).
Layers of considerable thickness were quarried to extract the stone as a building material.