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. The geology, both physical and social, of the Camino is both varied and complex and in consequence I would suggest that you use more technical or academic sites to research solutions to your requirements.
I am sure you will be able to construct an appropriate argument from the information that is already widely available without relying on members of this forum to do it for you.
The first picture above is of a chapel built into the limestone cliffs near Belorado. .
Mica from Roman causeway at CastroVerizon.
Thank you all so very much!!! These tips will give me plenty to work from. I love seeing how landscape has influenced society and I think this will amaze me.
I love how the Camino really is such a fellowship of journeyers.
If you get to go, we expect a nice little geologic trail log to be posted here! .....
Petey, please accept this as an apology for a mean spirited reply to your original post. Made worse perhaps by that "moderator" tag I wear. I've been roundly, and rightly, spanked for it. I offer no excuse other than tiredness.
I see others have made some helpful and I hope useful comments and suggestions. In a better frame of mind I would probably have suggested that there is a treatise to be written on the variable adhesion of Riojan and Navaran clays. I wish you good luck with your fund-raising.
I deferred to them as the "experts" on all things camino related...thinking it was a direct translation of what the mineral is called locally.
That rock pile is indeed a geologic wonder. I added a piece of pumice from here in Oregon, rock so light it floats. My sample was formed just 5000 years ago when Mt. Mazama blew up, forming Crater Lake.Geological Archeology at Cruz de Ferro ... 10000 years from now someone is going to be very confused about how rocks from all around the planet wound up on in a pile in the middle of nowhere Iberia.
If we start adding photo from other parts of the world, however interesting, I think we are definitely going off track. My apologies to newfydog! Anne
PS. My little piece of rock was also volcanic, from our local Volcan Barva. ( it was the lightest piece of rock I could think of to carry).!
Actually Newfydog, that's Volcan Irazu, much more spectacular than Volcan Barva, where my mini rock came from. But, we are perhaps moving away from the OP, Geology of the Camino! AnneWhat, you can post where your contribution to the pile is from, but, posting a photo of where the rock blew out of it is a step too far???
I think annakappa's rock was blasted out of this one. Amazing all the stuff that ends up in the Cruz de Fer pile.
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newfydog, that statement there is the basis for a whole new thread. Looking forward to it.Anyway, I find it fascinating that in search of lightweight rocks, pieces of volcanoes from all over the world have ended up at the base of the Cruz de Ferro. The certainly the most varied geologic feature of the route is that rock pile.
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