Laid out in the mountain range with a wide flat valleys, gradually began to take shape ostrovopodobnye hill in the same way as happened with the Sugar Loaf in Rio - de - Janeiro. From afar you can see that parallel bell-shaped mountains are separated from the powerful skorlupovidnye cover or crust. The most extensive of them is called "Hnost kangaroo." Its thickness is about, and the length over 200 m at the foot of cover is not fitted to the slope, but separated from it by a narrow slit through which shines through the sky. In addition, the surface of the mountain is covered with countless skorlupovidnymi individually about 1 cm thick and an area of ??several decimeters. Under the more stable outer layer or coating often small niches weathering termed "tafoni" (Corsican name similar forms). At the foot of the mountain under wired more stable slopes are often formed the cave-like forms of karst, but here they are not developed in the limestone, and silicate arkoses! Read the rest of this entry »
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