GEOLOGICAL AND GEOMORPHOLOGICAL DESCRIPTION
Bosco di Tecchie (Serre di Burano)

The area in question is located in the north-western margins of the borough of Cantiano (PU), in the district of “Serre di Burano”. The wood covers about 180 hectares, and is mainly covered by Turkey oak and beech woods.
The area is morphologically characterised by a double line up of small ridges which culminate in the “Pian della Serra” mountain and which are broken up by a series of small narrow valleys of the “serre”. These are cut into the original geological formation of sandstone of Monte Vicino, made up of alternating marlstone and sandstone formations which were laid down in a small basin supplied by a flood creek. The thickness varies from 600 metres to 1400 metres and involves stratified rocks in large banks (early-mid Miocene).
This type of marlstone comes at the top of the Marnoso-Arenacea formation made up mainly of turbidite formations organised in pelitico-arenacee and arenacee lithofacies, deriving from southern quandrants. Materials were put into the basin through a structural canal and then distributed towards NW and SE, and then they crammed themselves into a narrow stretched out depression forming a “flood cone”.
The area presents a state of elevated environmental integrity marked by a remarkable wealth of flora and fauna which create particular interest of natural importance for the province.