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FEATURE (Category: Europe | Alps | France | summer | outdoor | hiking | mountains)
Maritime Alps: Three Hikes above the Tinée valley
Maritime Alps: Three Hikes above the Tinée valley
The Tinée river has created the deepest valley in the french maritime Alps. Hiking here means suffering large differences in altitude, with superb views and a lot of diversity as rewards. Adding to this diversity is the fact that Roure, our 'base camp' overlooking the Tinée from a balcony position, is situated right at the border between Alps and Méditerranée.
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'Mercantour, Tinée/Vionène: red schist.'
In a small area surrounding the confluence of Vionène and Tinée the purple-coloured bedrock amazes visitors. It is a schist dating from the Permian period, when the earth's atmosphere contained oxygen for the first time in its history, turning iron in minerals red. Beauty is not the only result, fertility as well: around perched village Roure it weathers into a rich purple soil. Photo Paul Smit. [FRANCE.ALPSSOUTH 02031]
'Mercantour, Tinée/Vionène: red schist.'
In a small area surrounding the confluence of Vionène and Tinée the purple-coloured bedrock amazes visitors. It is a schist dating from the Permian period, when the earth's atmosphere contained oxygen for the first time in its history, turning iron in minerals red. Beauty is not the only result, fertility as well: around perched village Roure it weathers into a rich purple soil. Photo Paul Smit. All rights reserved. No permission for reproduction, including copying or saving of digital image files or text, is granted without prior written authorisation from the author.
