Sheeted Dykes Complex
Palechory has seen re-introduction of dakes between already-cooled rocks.
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Palechory has seen re-introduction of dakes between already-cooled rocks.
At Teisia yews Madaris, part of the dakes looks like huge stone walls.
The body of the cumulative rocks, including gabbro and diorite, has been embedded in the base of the almost vertical sheeted dyke complex.
Slag dump Skuriotissa dates back to the early Byzantine time, IV – VII centuries of our era.
Around the 14th century BC, the ship Uluburun sank off the coast of present-day Turkey. Archaeologists found copper and tin bars in the cargo: according to the description…
The microscope changes the scale of history. Coccolithophorides — Single Cell Marine Plankton — form tiny lime plates. After the death of organisms, they settle to the bottom;…
Stavros-tis-Psokas — forest station, picnic area and camping at an altitude of about nine hundred metres. The mountain scale of the Paphos forest is especially clear here.
Stinking juniper — Evergreen mountain tree with a dense dark crown. Old specimens are recognized by fibrous bark flaking off longitudinal stripes.
Basalt is sometimes cracked as if it had been cut into stone pencils. When cooled, the rocks shrink, and the resulting cracks can divide it into multi-faceted pillars.
Parallel dykes resemble pages of a stone book. Each of them was a crack, where magma penetrated, and then froze. The repetition of such implementations records how the…
At the Setrachos River next to the Venetian bridge, the catalogue describes a group of sulfur springs.