Potamida, Komolithi, ποταμίδ- Crete with Alexandra EarthCache
Hidden : 9/7/2016
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

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Request: near the find box https://coord.info/GC53QCK Potamida creator schnaffels coordinates N 35 ° 28.274 E 023 ° 41.920. Feel free to search. Boxes normal and EC.
.Αίτημα: κοντά στο πεδίο εύρεσης https://coord.info/GC53QCK Ποταμίδα schnaffels δημιουργός συντεταγμένες N 35 ° 28.274 E 023 ° 41.920. Μη διστάσετε να αναζητήσετε. Κουτιά φυσιολογικό και ΕΚ.

Prośba: w pobliżu znajduje sie box https://coord.info/GC53QCK Potamida tworcy schnaffels współrzędne N 35° 28.274 E 023° 41.920 . Zapraszam do poszukiwań . Skrzynki zwykłej oraz EC.>br> EC Οι λόφοι των Πυραμίδων umieszczony we wrześniu 2016 podczas podróży na południowy - zachód Krety przez Ola & Piotr z Polski ( miasto Przemyśl). Przybyliśmy na Kretę na nasze 2 tygodniowe wakacje.
Feel free to log without waiting for our reply. We will help you if the answers are not right! Our Profile! ποταμίδα Κωμόλιθοι
Komolithi is one of the most bizarre and interesting landscapes in Crete. They are met by the village Potamida ( reg. Kissamos) about 35km west of Chania. These are alternating small hills consisting of soft clay, which due to time erosion, have turned them to wonderful conical shapes. They are located very close to the village’s houses, at a very fertile area next to Tyflos River. Large and small meteors are shaped with completely bare sides and vegetation atop them. Ascending on Komolithi hills and walking among them is very easy. These separate hills consist of soft clay which over time, some erosion has given them these wonderful formations. They are completely sterile, with the exception of their peaks.

Hills with Potamidy were studied in the 70s against the Dutch, and in recent years by researchers at the University of Crete. Before 10 million years Crete was still archipelago. Only processes drift of tectonic plates in the last few million years, they created a new image of Tethys Ocean. Today, the Mediterranean Sea is the last remnant of the New Tethys, which has undergone many changes and continues to evolve. The western part of the island emerges from the eastern part is flooded. The first study showed that the building blocks of these cones are deposits of more than seven million years ago - the turn of the Tortonian and Messinian belonging to the former late Tertiary and now to the period called the Neogene. It is interesting, that was then shaped by the Mediterranean Sea. In addition, the settlements are not limestone, but aluminum - silicon resulting from the dust and mud. These are so-called fine dust or often called mudstones. They are the result of "cementing" (Gr. Lithos - stone) particles of the order of 1-20 microns. Mudstone further characterized by increasing its capacity for binding with the molecules of water. The second study were for the fossils found in the sediment. They reached out to light the remains of the 15-meter sharks 7 million years ago. It is interesting to detect in studies of chemical trace amounts of gold and pyrite.
Mudstone, a type of mudrock, is a fine-grained sedimentary rock whose original constituents were clays or muds. Grain size is up to 0.0625 mm (0.0025 in) with individual grains too small to be distinguished without a microscope. With increased pressure over time, the platey clay minerals may become aligned, with the appearance of fissility or parallel layering. This finely bedded material that splits readily into thin layers is called shale, as distinct from mudstone. The lack of fissility or layering in mudstone may be due to either original texture or the disruption of layering by burrowing organisms in the sediment prior to lithification. Mud rocks such as mudstone and shale comprise some 65% of all sedimentary rocks. Mudstone looks like hardened clay and, depending upon the circumstances under which it was formed, it may show cracks or fissures, like a sun-baked clay deposit.

Mudstone can be separated into these categories:

Siltstone – more than half of the composition is silt-sized particles.
Claystone – more than half of the composition is clay-sized particles.
Mudstone – hardened mud; a mix of silt and clay sized particles. Mudstone can include:
Shale – exhibits lamination or fissility.
Argillite – has undergone low-grade metamorphism.

Erosion processes:
In earth science, erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that remove soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust, then transport it away to another location
Physical processes, chemical erosion, wind erosion, mass movement,glaciers, rainfall and surface runoff, climate, tectonics............

questions:
1 / The hills were at the bottom of an ancient sea. What do you think ? What they are built.
2 / Looking at the surface of the rock, rate what factors may have an impact on today's appearance.
3 / Try to examine her physical characteristics. Hardness, water absorption and color.
4 / Option: Mile seen attached photograph.
I use Wikipedia and the Internet, Komolithi geological phenomenon.
If you visited my EarthCache, I prepared a special souvenir that you can paste into your profile:
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