Study site description: Rendina, Italy

Table of Contents

1. Responsible IP partner
2. General information
3. Bio-physical description
   1. Physiographic setting of the plots
   2. Geological information
   3. Annual rainfall and seasonality
   4. Main land uses
   5. Crops and cropping
   6. Natural vegetation
   7. Grazing
4. Land use management and degradation processes
5. Socio-economic description
6. Institutional and political setting
7. Relevant end-users / stakeholder groups (at all levels)
8. Past and on-going projects
9. References
10. Annex: Soil characteristics of the Rendina Basin

Geological information

The main formations and lithology in Rendina basin consist of :

• alluvial and colluvial sediments, with clayey and sandy granulometry
• Monte Marano Sands, Irsinia conglomerate (Pleistocene)
• fluvio-lacustrine deposits with large amount of pyroclastic materials
• pyroclastic colluvial deposits.
• sandstones and marls
• pyroclastic deposits and acid volcanic formations
• quartz-arenite with thin clayey layer
• clayey slate and marls (varicolored clays complex).