Monday, October 15, 2012

The "Mother Lode" -- Listwaenite
In some blog below I have a close-up of listwaenite, now here's a not quite so close, close up, showing "the sample that got away" and is still waiting for me up at Vasilitsa. It's too BIG just to dig up with one hammer -- I need some students!!
Folds, anyone?
Rumpling the carpet of sediments above the ancient collision zone of Africa and Europe gives rise to a marvelous mess of folds, here visible at the crest of the Pindos Mountains.
The Glorious God -- Acheloos!
The god of fresh water in ancient mythology demonstrates his power to erode spectacular gorges within Greece. Since all the host rocks are flysch and marls, lacking any capability of storing groundwater, the course of the river is marked by more waterfalls than can be counted...