Gibraltar

[mistermack]

I just looked at the rock of Gibraltar on the web, and it's more interesting than it looks. 

I like the clouds that hit the rock, and are forced upwards like in a chimney. I actually have found that in one other place, a mountain on Achill Island in the west of Ireland. It's a similar cliff, but nearly 1,000 ft higher, and when I reached the top (from the easy side) I was amazed to see clouds shooting up vertically into the air, right in front of me. 

But another interesting thing about the rock is that it's composed of ordinary-looking sedimentary layers, but they are upside down, with the youngest rocks below the older ones. It must have had some pretty vigorous folding in it's history.  

Clouds covering the walls of Gibraltar Rock - Rock of Gibraltar - Wikipedia 

 

 

[JoeyVimsanteThePoet]

This is interesting. I did not know about such cloud systems.