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<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/127566467@N07/">Macedonia Travel &amp; News</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/127566467@N07/43571827892/" title="Greece, Central Macedonia, Sochos, 12 Apostles Oil Wrestling Feast (pre-teen boys &amp; girls categories)"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/925/43571827892_8de6d962b0_m.jpg" width="240" height="162" alt="Greece, Central Macedonia, Sochos, 12 Apostles Oil Wrestling Feast (pre-teen boys &amp; girls categories)" /></a></p> <p><b> <a href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?text=%ce%9cacedonia&amp;sort=relevance">#Μacedonia</a> </b> .. <b> <a href="https://www.flickr.com/groups/macedonia/">Macedonia Timeless Group</a> </b></p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/196253572@N05/">rwgabbro1</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/196253572@N05/54280009676/" title="Geology (Architectural &amp; Otherwise) of the Earth&#039;s Center, Part 12: Going Deeper in Time By Looking Up | Delphi, Phocis, Greece"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54280009676_23f6e4eac8_m.jpg" width="160" height="240" alt="Geology (Architectural &amp; Otherwise) of the Earth&#039;s Center, Part 12: Going Deeper in Time By Looking Up | Delphi, Phocis, Greece" /></a></p> <p><i>We're just north of the archaeological site's Theater and Stadium.<br /> <br /> This view of one small section of the southern Parnassus Massif scarp was probably taken in the vicinity of the Kerna Spring, shown in <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/196253572@N05/54246809364/in/dateposted-public/">Part 11</a>. And this crease in the cliff may be the trace of the north-south-running Kerna Fault. If not, we're close. And in any case, the entire scarp marks the position of the much larger, northwest-to-southeast Arachova-Delphi-Amphissa Fault, the upper boundary of the Pleistos Gorge rift. </i><br /> <br /> I suspect I snapped this shot because of all the cavities and solution-widened joints in the limestone pictured here. What I didn't know at the time, however, was just how tectonically crazy the Delphi region is and has been.<br /> <br /> Now that I do know that, however, I find another aspect of this scene more fascinating. How carbonate rock comes to have the texture of Swiss cheese is still interesting to me, but that's eclipsed by a grander tectonic story, in which a huge stack of sedimentary formations was pushed onto and over preexisting rock during episodes of crustal compression. <br /> <br /> Such an overriding assemblage of rocks is called a <i>nappe</i>. And that's what the Parnassus Massif is. It has been thrust northeastward from its original position, and over what is now the mainland of Greece. <br /> <br /> In its core, where lofty Mount Parnassus stands, its sequence of strata has not been disturbed much. But here on the nappe's southern fringe there has been so much deformation that the layers have been completely overturned, like a layer cake that has fallen off its shelf and landed upside down on the floor.<br /> <br /> In nice, placid, and tectonically undisturbed places, such as parts of the American Midwest, you can see a stately and predictable progression of sedimentary strata. The oldest are always on the bottom, and the youngest on top. <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/196253572@N05/54048522665/in/album-72177720319260858">Here's one example</a>.<br /> <br /> This is an illustration of the Law of Superposition, first formulated in the seventeenth century by the Dane Niels Steensen, better known to geology students far and wide as Nicolas Steno. But the Earth's crust is so hyperactive, especially in Greece, that it periodically distorts this natural order of things—even to the point the oldest strata are sitting on top, and the youngest lie below them.<br /> <br /> Such is the case in this photo. Down where we're standing, the rock is either Upper Cretaceous or Paleocene, the latter dating to a measly 60 Ma. But the clock runs backward as you glance higher. At the top, up there somewhere, the limestone is Upper Jurassic, which at 150 Ma is two and a half times as ancient. <br /> <br /> <b>To see the other photos and descriptions in this series, visit my <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/196253572@N05/albums/72177720303979811/"><i>Architectural Geology: Greece</i> album</a>.</b></p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/186807055@N06/">mitropolifth</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/186807055@N06/54279060297/" title="IMG_8223"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54279060297_3d83afcab0_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="IMG_8223" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/186807055@N06/">mitropolifth</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/186807055@N06/54280186419/" title="IMG_8126"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54280186419_e31485038c_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="IMG_8126" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/186807055@N06/">mitropolifth</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/186807055@N06/54278938426/" title="IMG_7767"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54278938426_b626cbe7f8_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="IMG_7767" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/186807055@N06/">mitropolifth</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/186807055@N06/54279186168/" title="IMG_7834"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54279186168_5f78f4c680_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="IMG_7834" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/186807055@N06/">mitropolifth</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/186807055@N06/54279182714/" title="IMG_7765"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54279182714_73eda9b162_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="IMG_7765" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/ctmnet/">Thomas Mulchi</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ctmnet/54278870861/" title="Peloponnese – Nafplion"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54278870861_fae22bb25c_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Peloponnese – Nafplion" /></a></p> <p>Nafplion, Peloponnese, Greece</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/bahi_p/">Bahi P</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bahi_p/54278192088/" title="Mixed materials"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54278192088_1abf259d44_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Mixed materials" /></a></p> <p>Rethymno, Crete</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/197562786@N07/">sjgetty0527</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/197562786@N07/54277945915/" title="IMG_0881_Paros_Paroikia"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54277945915_4b16664b47_m.jpg" width="192" height="240" alt="IMG_0881_Paros_Paroikia" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/30957604@N06/">roba66</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/30957604@N06/54277214791/" title="Griechenland, Greece - Insel Rhodos, Anthony Quinn Beach, Faliraki, 23336"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54277214791_7a05bbefc1_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Griechenland, Greece - Insel Rhodos, Anthony Quinn Beach, Faliraki, 23336" /></a></p> <p>Griechenland, Greece - Insel Rhodos<br /> Griechenland, Greece - Insel Rhodos, Anthony Quinn Beach<br /> <br /> Anthony-Quinn-Bucht ist heute der gebräuchliche Name für die Vagies-Bucht an der Ostküste der griechischen Insel Rhodos. Sie liegt rund 15 Kilometer von der Stadt Rhodos und drei Kilometer von Faliraki entfernt in Richtung Lindos bei Ladiko.<br /> <br /> Dieser idyllische Kieselstrand südlich von Faliraki wurde nach dem Schauspieler Anthony Quinn benannt, der in der kleinen Bucht einen seiner Filme drehte.</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/186807055@N06/">mitropolifth</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/186807055@N06/54276049097/" title="IMG_8095"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54276049097_6e97ff2c9e_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="IMG_8095" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/186807055@N06/">mitropolifth</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/186807055@N06/54277174239/" title="IMG_8083"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54277174239_d65334464d_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="IMG_8083" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/186807055@N06/">mitropolifth</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/186807055@N06/54277174049/" title="IMG_7983"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54277174049_f2943c17d9_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="IMG_7983" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/186807055@N06/">mitropolifth</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/186807055@N06/54277174264/" title="IMG_8074"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54277174264_6959cf675d_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="IMG_8074" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/186807055@N06/">mitropolifth</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/186807055@N06/54277174414/" title="IMG_8050"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54277174414_c55b4ab858_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="IMG_8050" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/186807055@N06/">mitropolifth</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/186807055@N06/54276049612/" title="IMG_7948"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54276049612_ae02ce9218_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="IMG_7948" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/186807055@N06/">mitropolifth</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/186807055@N06/54276928616/" title="IMG_8026"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54276928616_a90bf27f41_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="IMG_8026" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/186807055@N06/">mitropolifth</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/186807055@N06/54276049482/" title="IMG_8012"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54276049482_e688d08c60_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="IMG_8012" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/186807055@N06/">mitropolifth</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/186807055@N06/54276928886/" title="IMG_7958"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54276928886_582a6a675a_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="IMG_7958" /></a></p>

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