Cloudy Cantabrians The Cantabrian Mountains run along Spain’s northern coast, almost parallel

Cloudy CantabriansThe Cantabrian Mountains run along Spain’s northern coast, almost parallel to the coastline. This photo of some of the peaks standing out in the province of Asturias, just west of Picos de Europa National Park where the highest part of the range is found.The peaks in this area are dominantly carboniferous-aged limestones, laid down in shallow basins that formed as a consequence of the growing Variscan Orogeny. The collision between North America, Europe, and Africa that assembled Pangaea began building mountains some distance from here, while this area sat as a shallow sea and accumulated tens of millions of years of limestone. As the mountains grew, this area gradually moved closer to the range and developed into a foreland basin dragged down by the weight of the mountains. Eventually, the limestones were caught up in the deformation and faulted upwards. Since then they’ve ridden along with Spain and been carved by erosion and glaciers to create the modern landscape.-JBBImage credit: https://flic.kr/p/e1QVWvReferences:http://www.igme.es/patrimonio/GEOSITES/Chapter_03_SGFG.pdfhttp://bit.ly/28LGscB -- source link

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