Les Orgues - Ille-sur-Têt (Pyrénées-Orientales), France
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member RakeInTheCache
N 42° 41.156 E 002° 37.238
31T E 468921 N 4726008
[FR] Les Orgues d'Ille-sur-Têt sont des cheminées de fée résultent de l'érosion de roches sédimentaires vieilles de quatre millions d'années. [EN] An exceptional landscape of astonishing natural structures: the "fairy chimneys".
Waymark Code: WM165WH
Location: Occitanie, France
Date Posted: 05/13/2022
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member Blue J Wenatchee
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[FR] Une cheminée de fée est un modelé d’érosion différentielle qui se présente sous la forme d’une colonne de roche tendre surmontée par une coiffe plus résistante. L’action des agents d’érosion est plus intense sur la partie tendre, donc sur la colonne dont le diamètre diminue au fil du temps. L’érosion aidant, le chapeau perd progressivement ses assises, il finira par s’effondrer, d’un bloc ou en morceaux selon sa morphologie. Une fois sa coiffe perdue, la colonne s’estompe beaucoup plus vite.

[EN] These cliffs were sculpted by the wind, but other factors came into play to achieve this result: erosion, water flowing from the plateau above to the Têt, the nearby coastal river, and the sun, which burned the clay soil mixed with the crumbly rocks and which gives the horizontal lines of color that we sometimes see.

The rock formations were produced by several million years of geological history beginning in the Pliocene era.
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