Fig. 10
From: Messinian or Pleistocene valley incision within the Southern Alps
Schematic section along the Adige River for the present day. The surface is shown in thick black lines, crystalline rock in dark grey and sediments in light grey shading. The Messinian river profile is uplifted and eroded or subsided according to the rock uplift and subsidence rates displayed as blue arrows. Messinian surfaces (red) were eroded away within the Alps, they are only preserved in the Po Plain and the transition into the Alps