17th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Natural World
Karstic landscape
At the head of the Roncal Valley is the Larra massif, an immense mass of limestone formed 65 million years ago. Then, the area was formed by a warm and shallow sea, at whose bottom the sediments and remains of the living beings that populated it were deposited. Subsequently, water, snow, ice and wind have externally modeled a particular relief, a chaos of rock dotted here and there by black pines.
Photo Detail
Date Taken: | 11.2019 |
Date Uploaded: | 11.2019 |
Photo Location: | Valle del Roncal, Spain |
Camera: | NIKON D810 |
Copyright: | © César Llaneza Rodríguez |