One of the most spectacular geological cross-sections of the Apennines is visible on the cliffs along the Cinque Terre coast with outcrops of units of the Mesozoic Tethys ocean domain and of the Mesozoic to Cenozoic basins of the Adria continental margin. The lithologies are marine sedimentary rocks and ophiolite sequences. The significant deformation come from the Jurassic ocean spreading phase to the Late Cretaceous-Miocene subduction and collisional phases.

From Ross Philo

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