Montgó Massif
Platja Almadrava against the backdrop of the Montgo
The Montgo ( rarely also Mongo ) is a mountain in south-eastern Spain, msnm in the north of the Costa Blanca, near the coastal towns of Denia and Javea, with a height of 753. The Montgo itself and the surrounding area it is a nature reserve ( " Parc Natural el Montgo ").
About the Montgo the official trail PR V -152 leads the Federación de Valenciano Montañismo lie on the edge of interesting sights such as the Cova de l' Aigua, Cova del Camell and Creueta ( summit cross ).
He is one of the landmarks of the city of Dénia.
He also carries among German tourists the name " Sleeping Elephant ". This comes from its unusual shape, like a trunk meander its foothills to the sea.
Geology
The Montgo mountain range is part of the Betic Cordillera, within which he belongs to Präbetischen zone. Since he isolated from the adjacent mountain ranges, abruptly rises above its surroundings, it forms a visible from a distance and striking landmark. This situation is tectonically related. Just north and south of the mountain runs in each case in an east-west direction of a fault. In between the Montgo is singled out as Horst.
The mountain consists of sedimentary rocks of the upper stage of the Lower Cretaceous, Albian which, up to the first stage of tertiary, the Eocene.
Albian
The oldest pending in the area of the Natural Park Montgo layers are from the most recent stage of the Lower Cretaceous, Albian the. These are ocher-colored marl with individual layers of calcareous clay. The upper 100 m of which are open-minded. From the area is known to reach a thickness of several hundred meters. They were deposited in the sea at shallow depths.
Upper Albian / lower Cenomanian
- Behind the palm trees the settlement areas on rocks of the transition region Albian / Cenomanian
- In the up to 100% steep slope: Cenomanian (250 m)
- In the partially vertical rock walls of the Turonian (150 m)
- On the left nor followed by layers of Senonium
It is followed by a transition region from the Albian to Cenomanian, the ocher and reddish marly and sandy limestones contains. The thickness is about 150 m. Due to their higher lime content can make them stronger than the slope inclines marl. Large parts of this area of the slopes of Montgo be taken of settlement areas ( Urbanicaziónes ).
Cenomanian
The lower stage of the Upper Cretaceous area of the following Cenomanian, consists of more or less marly limestones of brown and grayish color that are layered in thick packages. They come from a marine carbonate platform in shallow waters. Their thickness is 170-280 m, a mean of 250 m. The slope is now even much larger, between 50 and 100 %. The corresponding slopes are clearly visible, they occupy the area between the settlements and the lower edge of the steep rock walls.
Turonian
The very steep, vertical rock walls consist largely of compact limestone of Turonian with only weakly pronounced stratification. In the fresh state it is white or cream-colored. This limestone was formed on a marine carbonate platform and is about 150 m thick ( locally 120 m). Due to its high resistance to weathering, it forms the escarpment of the Montgo below the narrow, about 4 km long plateau.
Senonium
To the east of Montgohochfläche the Turonian layers of Senonium ( Santonian, Campanian and Maastrichtian ) are still superposed. These are yellowish marls and marly limestones and significantly stratified white, marly limestone with single compact benches. These rocks come from a more pelagic, that is deeper sea area. Their thickness is about 200 m.
Eocene
Tertiary sediments of the Eocene, TIMELINESS are to be found only in the area of the summit. They include greenish and yellowish marls and marly limestones, sediments of a shallow sea area.
Pictures
View from Montgo to the Cape San Antonio
Swell
Gerardo Martínez and Antonio Estévez Stübing (Editor): Estudio multidisciplinar del Parque Natural del Montgo (Alicante ). Generalitat Valenciana, Agència del Medi Ambient, Valencia, 1991, ISBN 84-7890-347- X