Meteora is an area in Thessaly (Central Greece) and Kalampaka
is the city under the rock towers of Meteora. The thing that makes
Meteora so special is the monasteries on the top of the rock towers.
The prevailing theory about Meteora creation, is that
one of the German geologist Philipson, who came to Greece in the late
19th century. According to his theory, a large river had his estuary in
this area which for million of years was covered by a narrow and deep
part of the sea .The river waters place matter, stones and generally
several materials that were transferred by its waters at the estuary
from Northern parts of primordial central Europe. From the accumulation
of these materials deltaic cones were formed.
25-30 million years
ago, after some geological changes took place during the centuries, the
central part of today’s Europe was lifted. That’s how the opening of
Tempi was created ,having as a result the pouring of the waters in
today’s Aegean sea.
During the tertiary period ,at the time of
the alpine orogenies, the solid volumes of the “rocks” were cut off from
the mountain chain of Pindos that was created and as the centuries went
by, the plain of Pinios river was formed between them.
With the
continuous corrosion by the wind and the rain as well as by other
geological changes, these rocks took their present form through the
passing of million of years.
At the cavities, fissures and peaks
of Meteora rocks, the people of that place found protection from the
raids of several conquerors and of those who passed from the area.
No comments:
Post a Comment