Italian recycling
Tuscany, Italy
A multitude of different rocks, bricks and carved fragments have been used in
this building beside a car park.
Gigilos
White Mountains, Crete
These mountains rise above the Samaria Gorge. Three different limestones are
found in these hills.
frontier
Maritime Alps, France
On the border between France and Italy on the Col de Fenestre there is a pillbox
and much barbed wire remaining from the second world war. It is a wild area of
gneiss, upended rocks from the Alpine Orogeny.
boats
Brittany, France
The old harbour has disappeared and there is now a gleaming marina with a nuclear
power station nearby.
larch trees on ash
Cumbre Nueva, La Palma Canaries
This island is volcanically active with new lava flows and craters. The larch
trees are the first new plants to colonize.
aged olives
North Mallorca
High in the limestone mountains on the north side of the island, the old trees
struggle to survive among tumbling limestone boulders
Dolomites
Northern Italy
Snow in July
Caval Bernat Ridge
San Vicente, Northern Mallorca
The ridge is a scramble, only for climbers, but there is a good view of the
precipitous rocks from Cala san Vicente
Lough Fadda
County Kery, Eire
Steep rocks of a monocline plunge into the water
Carrauntouhill
Macgillycuddy Reeks, SW Eire
A high sandstone mountain is shimmering in the heat
granite
Ploumenach, Brittany, France
The coarse crystalline rock is good for scrambling on.
Vizzavona
Above the railway, central mountains, Corsica
A castle in the woods
herringbone wall
SE Eire
Vegitation changes over the fault.
dune
Sossusvlei, Namibia
A very high 'star' dune. Calcite is deposited when an underground river evaporates in the valleys.
Some of this is blown up the dune stabilising the ripples and the ridges.
gneiss and snow
Maritime Alps, France
The very hard rock on the foot path up to the high mountains.
Alto Aragon
Pyrenees, Spain
Limestone was laid down in the sea and changed to dolomite by the magnesium in the water.
The rock has been thrust upwards with the collision of Africa with France and is eroding rapidly.