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Orgues d'Ille-sur-Têt - France

author: S.Beaucourt/Novapix

reference: t-fra66-00103

Image Size 300 DPI: 21 * 32 cm

Orgues d'Ille-sur-Têt is a geological site in the Pyrenees Orientales. The ‘orgues’ (organ pipes) are rock formations produced by several million years of geological history; these natural chimneys are made of columns of soft rock eroded by wind and rain overhung by harder rock.

Keywords for this photo:

2008 - EROSION - FRANCE - GEOLOGY - LANDSCAPE - LANGUEDOC-ROUSSILLON - PYRENEES-ORIENTALES - ROCK -