Architectural Geology of Tiryns, Part 2: Cretaceous Limestone Near and Far, Peloponnese, Greece
There's something rather brown and purple and underworldish about this old slide transfer, and I like it.
Taken from one side of the Tiryns archaeological site, looking south toward the port of Nauplia (Nafplio, Navplio, etc.).
The white-and-maroon-striped flowers in the foreground are those of Asphodelus ramous, the Branched Asphodel. It's a species native to this area that at the time of my visit was behaving the way Kudzu (Pueraria montana var. lobata) does in the American Southeast—it had taken over all the ground it could, and then some.
The ruins of this famous Late Bronze Age community are sited on a knoll of Cretaceous-age Tiryns Limestone (that being my own informal name for it). This carbonate sedimentary rock, quarried on nearby hills, is also the most common type of building stone used for in the cyclopean masonry here, though there is also some conglomerate present.
In the distance stand the lavender-tinted forms of Mount Palamidi (the larger, at left) and the Acronauplia. They also are masses of relatively resistant Lower Cretaceous limestone, part of an upthrust crustal block adjacent to a graben.
Also note the freighter at right, in the haze of the Gulf of Argos. Given its course, I'm guessing it was getting underway from a port call in Nauplia.
To see the other photos and descriptions of this series, visit my
Architectural Geology of Tiryns album.
Architectural Geology of Tiryns, Part 2: Cretaceous Limestone Near and Far, Peloponnese, Greece
There's something rather brown and purple and underworldish about this old slide transfer, and I like it.
Taken from one side of the Tiryns archaeological site, looking south toward the port of Nauplia (Nafplio, Navplio, etc.).
The white-and-maroon-striped flowers in the foreground are those of Asphodelus ramous, the Branched Asphodel. It's a species native to this area that at the time of my visit was behaving the way Kudzu (Pueraria montana var. lobata) does in the American Southeast—it had taken over all the ground it could, and then some.
The ruins of this famous Late Bronze Age community are sited on a knoll of Cretaceous-age Tiryns Limestone (that being my own informal name for it). This carbonate sedimentary rock, quarried on nearby hills, is also the most common type of building stone used for in the cyclopean masonry here, though there is also some conglomerate present.
In the distance stand the lavender-tinted forms of Mount Palamidi (the larger, at left) and the Acronauplia. They also are masses of relatively resistant Lower Cretaceous limestone, part of an upthrust crustal block adjacent to a graben.
Also note the freighter at right, in the haze of the Gulf of Argos. Given its course, I'm guessing it was getting underway from a port call in Nauplia.
To see the other photos and descriptions of this series, visit my
Architectural Geology of Tiryns album.