Calanque d”en vue
Worth looking at it large if you can
* Between the city of Marseilles and the town of Cassis is the Massif des Calanques national Park that was created in 2012 which contains some beautiful coastal landscapes .
A calanque is a narrow, steep-walled inlet that is developed in limestone, dolomite, or other carbonate strata and found along the Mediterranean coast. They are almost like mini fiords and are very spectacular. You can visit them from the land or by boat. I choose a boat trip from Cassis that visited five of the thirteen main Calanques. It was a very relaxing trip as the sea was like a mill pond . This particular Calanque is called Calanque d”en vue. In the distance you can see a small beach but how people get down to it or back up again remains a mystery to me
I am no geologist but this is from Wikipedia if you are interested
Calanques along the Mediterranean are steep-sided valleys that the Holocene (Flandrian) marine transgression partially submerged to form cliff-edged inlets. These valleys were either incised by rivers or created by cave collapse as karstic dry valleys when sea level was lower than present.
Along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, some of the valleys, which were flooded to form calanques, might date back to the Messinian salinity crisis between 5.96 and 5.32 million years ago. During this period of time, the Mediterranean Sea became isolated from the Atlantic Ocean and its sea level dropped at least 1,500 meters below the level of the Atlantic Ocean. As a result, not only did evaporites accumulate on the abyssal plains of the Mediterranean Sea, but also rivers flowing into it deepened their valleys by 100s of meters. For example, the Rhône River cut a canyon as deep as 576 meters into Cretaceous carbonate strata near its confluence with its tributary the Ardèche. Also at this time, steep-walled, dry karstic valleys were formed by the collapse of caves that developed in limestone, dolomite, and other carbonate rocks in response to the greatly lowered sea level of the Mediterranean Sea. Later, during the Pleistocene, these valleys were further enlarged and modified by fluvial, karst, and other processes during interglacial drops of sea level within the 100 meter range. During these periods of interglacial low sea level, additional steep-sided valleys, which were later flooded to create calanques, along the Mediterranean coastline were formed by fluvial and karst processes.Today, they can be seen as deep, narrow valleys that are partly submerged by the sea and are made up of limestone or granite.
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Calanque d”en vue
Worth looking at it large if you can
* Between the city of Marseilles and the town of Cassis is the Massif des Calanques national Park that was created in 2012 which contains some beautiful coastal landscapes .
A calanque is a narrow, steep-walled inlet that is developed in limestone, dolomite, or other carbonate strata and found along the Mediterranean coast. They are almost like mini fiords and are very spectacular. You can visit them from the land or by boat. I choose a boat trip from Cassis that visited five of the thirteen main Calanques. It was a very relaxing trip as the sea was like a mill pond . This particular Calanque is called Calanque d”en vue. In the distance you can see a small beach but how people get down to it or back up again remains a mystery to me
I am no geologist but this is from Wikipedia if you are interested
Calanques along the Mediterranean are steep-sided valleys that the Holocene (Flandrian) marine transgression partially submerged to form cliff-edged inlets. These valleys were either incised by rivers or created by cave collapse as karstic dry valleys when sea level was lower than present.
Along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, some of the valleys, which were flooded to form calanques, might date back to the Messinian salinity crisis between 5.96 and 5.32 million years ago. During this period of time, the Mediterranean Sea became isolated from the Atlantic Ocean and its sea level dropped at least 1,500 meters below the level of the Atlantic Ocean. As a result, not only did evaporites accumulate on the abyssal plains of the Mediterranean Sea, but also rivers flowing into it deepened their valleys by 100s of meters. For example, the Rhône River cut a canyon as deep as 576 meters into Cretaceous carbonate strata near its confluence with its tributary the Ardèche. Also at this time, steep-walled, dry karstic valleys were formed by the collapse of caves that developed in limestone, dolomite, and other carbonate rocks in response to the greatly lowered sea level of the Mediterranean Sea. Later, during the Pleistocene, these valleys were further enlarged and modified by fluvial, karst, and other processes during interglacial drops of sea level within the 100 meter range. During these periods of interglacial low sea level, additional steep-sided valleys, which were later flooded to create calanques, along the Mediterranean coastline were formed by fluvial and karst processes.Today, they can be seen as deep, narrow valleys that are partly submerged by the sea and are made up of limestone or granite.
THANKS FOR YOUR VISITING BUT CAN I ASK YOU NOT TO FAVE AN IMAGE WITHOUT ALSO MAKING A COMMENT. MANY THANKS KEITH