The Canyonlands of France, Part 5: Another Look at the Daluis Gorge, Maritime Alps

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The Canyonlands of France, Part 5: Another Look at the Daluis Gorge, Maritime Alps
The Canyonlands of France, Part 5: Another Look at the Daluis Gorge, Maritime Alps

Looking upstream from a pullout on the gorge road.

This image, which I'd had in an old slide-show carousel tray for about twenty years, belatedly joins its companions in this set. It's actually the best of the lot.

Once again there are all those lovely, highly jointed Permian red beds of sandstone and other clastic sedimentary types, and the very coarse, white-limestone alluvium of the point bars on the narrow valley floor. The latter demonstrates that when it's at flood stage the Var River can heft and gradually transport large blocks of a considerably different lithology downstream 1-2 mi (1.6-3.2 km) from their own outcrop area. That's nothing, of course, to its carving this magnificent canyonscape in the first place.

In my lifetime I have witnessed a lot of discussion about what red beds say, or do not say, about the climate when and where they formed. My own geology professors of blessed memory intimated that red beds were benchmarks of a hot, dry, desert climate, or perhaps a monsoonal regime where it was hot and dry for a prolonged spell each year. But nowadays, in our continuing quest for enlightenment, we have ascended to the state of knowing less.

For more on the Permian redbed canyons of the Daluis-Cians area, see the other photos and descriptions of this series, in my Natural History: France album.

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Taken on: January 1, 1976
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