The construction of a grandstand and stage by the Pafos 2017 organisers at Aphrodite's Rock (Petra Tou Romiou) for concerts this weekend has raised concern among environmental groups....
Read the article and chat about it below...
Aphrodite's Rock concerts raise environmental concern
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Would YOU trust this construction..?
"Greens criticize concerts at protected Aphrodite’s Rock"... this is the todays article in CMail. I personal have a mixed opinion about that article but what me would concern is the construction on the hillside and partly in the sea, for security reasons. Beside that, this area towards Pissouri is one of the view places in Cyprus where you can get some strong wind for a sudden. Drove many times this road uphill and took pics from there of the Rock having problems to hold the camera in position. Also on the motorway bridge (in the background of the photo) was many times strong wind coming through this little valley from the sea. May be it is only ME having fearful thoughts which I never had in the past but for sure has something to do with ageing. 
http://cyprus-mail.com/2017/08/03/green ... ites-rock/
Max
http://cyprus-mail.com/2017/08/03/green ... ites-rock/
Max
Re: Aphrodite's Rock concerts raise environmental concern
Surely the time to protest would have been when they first announced the plans last year?
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Re: Aphrodite's Rock concerts raise environmental concern
We haven't talked about geology for a while - and Aphrodite's Rock is a perfect opportunity to address this shortcoming 
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Aphrodites Rock is a giant clast or “olistolith” – a component of an olistostrome. It had been in a clay matrix of Moni radioarites, which has been eroded away to leave the rock, which itself consists of a conglomerate of limestones with remnants of coral at the top – of late Triassic age.
How did this olistolith get here? The Mamonia Terrane (we discussed this in Max's last blog, remember?) itself is an allochthonous assemblage of Triassic to Jurassic age ocean floor volcanics and mainly pelagic sediments and an assemblage of mainly continental margin deposits, of similar age. The Terrane unit was tectonically emplaced alongside slivers of the Troodos Terrane during microplate rotation in the late Cretaceous. Ocean floor sediments formed on top of the Mamonia Terrane. One such formation involved exotic blocks within bentonitic clays and is known as the Moni Formation. The blocks are olistoliths of Mamonia and Troodos lithologies, some of which are massive (1km in size). Olistolith emplacement took place in intra Maastrichian time approximately 65 million years ago. The ocean basin floor and passive continental margin lithologies are believed to have collapsed into, and become accreted to the trench and subducted northwards. Once the Troodos micro plate rotation and intra–oceanic slicing began the accreted olistoliths were incorporated onto the rotating plate and entrained within the existing sea floor clay-radiolarite sediments as the major Mamonia crust was juztaposed along arcuate strike-slip faults with the Troodos complex. Aphrodites Rock’s slickenslides (these are clearly visible next to the waterline in the W) attest to the shearing and thrusting it experienced in the strike-slip fault zone. Subsequent uplift exposed the Moni Formation and Aphrodite's Rock was more recently left isolated after the softer surrounding bentonitic clay matrix was eroded away. The adjacent pillow lavas are also part of the olistolith.
“In ancient times, Cyprus was known as the birthplace of Aphrodite and the centre of her worship, though worship of Aphrodite was widely spread throughout the Mediterranean region. Even today, Cyprus is called the island of Aphrodite, goddess of love, beauty, and fertility. Legend associates the name “Aphrodite” with her birth of the sea-foam as the Greek word (aphros) means “foam.” Hesiod’s description of Aphrodite’s birth begins as follows: Aphrodite was born out of the sea foam when Uranus was cut by a sickle and fell into the sea, attacked by his son Cronus. The water began bubbling and foaming in the spot where Uranus had plunged into the sea. Suddenly, the most beautiful maiden came up from the foam an appeared on the surface. At first the waves gently carried her toward Cythera but Zephyrus, the western wind, ultimately guided the waves to the shores of Paphos, Cyprus. “
From the "The Birth of Aphrodite" poem. The rock has indeed emerged from the subduction zone but so has the whole island of Cyprus emerged from the sea! How clever the Greeks were!
Anyway - I think I need an Ouzo now - this is even confusing to me. (But bottomline is that the white Aphrodite's rock is of a completely different origin than the black ophiolitic rocks on the slope behind - as long as you take away as much as that you have passed...
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Source: http://geology.malvernu3a.org.uk/walks/ ... /index.htm
:Aphrodites Rock is a giant clast or “olistolith” – a component of an olistostrome. It had been in a clay matrix of Moni radioarites, which has been eroded away to leave the rock, which itself consists of a conglomerate of limestones with remnants of coral at the top – of late Triassic age.
How did this olistolith get here? The Mamonia Terrane (we discussed this in Max's last blog, remember?) itself is an allochthonous assemblage of Triassic to Jurassic age ocean floor volcanics and mainly pelagic sediments and an assemblage of mainly continental margin deposits, of similar age. The Terrane unit was tectonically emplaced alongside slivers of the Troodos Terrane during microplate rotation in the late Cretaceous. Ocean floor sediments formed on top of the Mamonia Terrane. One such formation involved exotic blocks within bentonitic clays and is known as the Moni Formation. The blocks are olistoliths of Mamonia and Troodos lithologies, some of which are massive (1km in size). Olistolith emplacement took place in intra Maastrichian time approximately 65 million years ago. The ocean basin floor and passive continental margin lithologies are believed to have collapsed into, and become accreted to the trench and subducted northwards. Once the Troodos micro plate rotation and intra–oceanic slicing began the accreted olistoliths were incorporated onto the rotating plate and entrained within the existing sea floor clay-radiolarite sediments as the major Mamonia crust was juztaposed along arcuate strike-slip faults with the Troodos complex. Aphrodites Rock’s slickenslides (these are clearly visible next to the waterline in the W) attest to the shearing and thrusting it experienced in the strike-slip fault zone. Subsequent uplift exposed the Moni Formation and Aphrodite's Rock was more recently left isolated after the softer surrounding bentonitic clay matrix was eroded away. The adjacent pillow lavas are also part of the olistolith.
“In ancient times, Cyprus was known as the birthplace of Aphrodite and the centre of her worship, though worship of Aphrodite was widely spread throughout the Mediterranean region. Even today, Cyprus is called the island of Aphrodite, goddess of love, beauty, and fertility. Legend associates the name “Aphrodite” with her birth of the sea-foam as the Greek word (aphros) means “foam.” Hesiod’s description of Aphrodite’s birth begins as follows: Aphrodite was born out of the sea foam when Uranus was cut by a sickle and fell into the sea, attacked by his son Cronus. The water began bubbling and foaming in the spot where Uranus had plunged into the sea. Suddenly, the most beautiful maiden came up from the foam an appeared on the surface. At first the waves gently carried her toward Cythera but Zephyrus, the western wind, ultimately guided the waves to the shores of Paphos, Cyprus. “
From the "The Birth of Aphrodite" poem. The rock has indeed emerged from the subduction zone but so has the whole island of Cyprus emerged from the sea! How clever the Greeks were!
Anyway - I think I need an Ouzo now - this is even confusing to me. (But bottomline is that the white Aphrodite's rock is of a completely different origin than the black ophiolitic rocks on the slope behind - as long as you take away as much as that you have passed...
)Source: http://geology.malvernu3a.org.uk/walks/ ... /index.htm
