The caches of the Geotrail of “Doxaro – Vossakos folds” wonder along an area that can be regarded as representative of the Cretan landscape and culture, with an additional highlight, the impressive succession of the Vossakos folds. It is an easy walking track for all the family which moves along dirt roads, old trails, the light-traffic, paved road leading to Vossakos monastery.
The track starts from the Campos Doxaro village, I started from Doxaro. You can see my trail on EVERYTRAIL.
The typical platy marble of Crete crops out along the slopes and road cuts, exposing sponge fossils and angular folds in several locations. White marbles appear in the old quarry where calcite crystals can be also found. The intense earth forces that created millions of years ago the mountains of Crete unveil their strength in the marvelous section of Vossakos folds along the paved road to Vossakos monastery. The intercalations of the gray marble and white silica layers offer a spectacular view in the variable, angular, tight or open folding of the platy marble.
The enormous forces that affected these rocks 23 million years ago resulted in a great variety in style and scale, of folds which crop out along a kilometer of road cuts. On a scale in size, in both centimeters and meters, and from a mild distortion to complete duplication, the “Vossakos folds” affect both rocks and landscape. These folds appear even more intense because of the existence of the white silica layers in contrast to the gray marble and they are also often accompanied by impressive faults.
The cache is just next to it.
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