Troodos lizard
Troodos lizard — endemic species of Cyprus, which is found far beyond the mountains of the same name.
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Troodos lizard — endemic species of Cyprus, which is found far beyond the mountains of the same name.
What connects a butterfly, a cut of a tree trunk and a stone from the seabed? In the center of the National Forest Park, they become part of…
Brutian pine forms many of the county’s familiar pine landscapes, from the low slopes of Akamas to the inner forest zone.
Brown and black umbras are rich in iron and manganese oxides; above, they go into deep-sea radiolarites.
Next to Kato Moni are pillow lavas, streams, volcanic breccia and hyaloclatites.
The east-west Arakapas valley is associated with an ancient transforming zone that displaced a stretch of oceanic spreading.
Pillow lavas are crossed by separate dikes and are relatively weakly deformed.
Vretsia is included under number 12 in the geological map of the geopark in 2020.
The early light gabbro is broken by the darker gabbro and then wehrlite.
In this section, light chalks and mergel chalks alternate layers and lie above the upper cushion lavas.
The cut shows massive chalks moving higher into the alternation of chalks and mergel chalks.