The rocks of the mountain look like an accordion
Between the villages of Aetia and Alatopetra, at an altitude of 1315 meters, dominates a strongly deformed limestone massif, known as Tsouryakas.
Mount Tsurgiaka, is located in Western Macedonia, in the prefecture of Grevena and takes its name from the village of Aetia, which, until 1927, was called Tsurgiakas. As for its current name of Aetia, the multitude of eagles that live and nest on the steep rocks of the stone mass of Tsurgiakas is responsible.
Read how these very special rocks were created
Many millions of years ago, during the geological world, there was only one super-continent on our planet, Pangea. The tectonic break-up of Pangea created an enclosed ocean called “Tethys” that reached from the shores of present-day England to the shores of China. The importance of this ocean is that it geologically determines the birth of Europe, the heart of which is in Western Macedonia…
So the beginning of the existence of the high jagged mountains of Tsurgiaka begins about 80 million years ago, during the Cretaceous period, in the Tethys Ocean, as a simple reef. But as the ocean filled with sediment from the converging rivers of the old European continent, the reef was buried several kilometers deep. But at even greater depths, as the tectonic plates of Europe and ancient Africa moved, they caused rifts, exposing the folds of the Tsurgiak seas. This is also the reason why the rocks of the mountain look like an accordion.
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