Monte Arcosu
Mountain in Italy
Monte Arcosu
Sardinia, Italy
Monte Arcosu is a mountain in the Sulcis massif, in southern Sardinia, Italy. It has an elevation of 948 metres (3,110 ft).
The mountain has a characteristically truncated cone shape, resulting from the differential erosion which followed its formation during the Variscan orogeny. The massif is formed by a granitic intrusion from the Carboniferous, lying on a Paleozoic schist basement and in turn surmounted by Paleozoic scists[check spelling]. The Variscan orogeny removed the upper schist layer from all the massif's peaks but Monte Arcosu, modelling it and showing the granite along the steep slopes.
Sources
- Barca, Sebastiano; Di Gregorio, Felice (1993). "Geologia e paesaggio in Sulcis". I Parchi della Sardegna. Cagliari: Edisar. pp. 238–240. ISBN 88-86004-35-4.
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Mountains of Sardinia
- Monte Albo
- Monte Arci
- Monte Arcosu
- Mount Arcuentu
- Monte Corrasi
- Gennargentu
- Monte Is Caravius
- Mount Limbara
- Monte Linas
- Montiferru
- Ortobene
- Punta La Marmora
- Monte Rasu
- Monte Santo
- Sulcis Mountains
- Supramonte
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