Monte Stello
Monte Stello (or Monte Stellu) is a mountain in the department of Haute-Corse on the island of Corsica, France. It is the second highest point in the Monte Stello massif, which forms the backbone of Cap Corse. Location The peak is roughly at the intersection of the borders of the communes of Olcani to the northwest, Olmeta-di-Capocorso to the west and Brando to the east. It is east of the village of Olmeta-di-Capocorso and west of the village of Erbalunga on the east coast. Physical Monte Stello has a prominence of and an elevation of . It is isolated by from the Cima di e Follicie to the north northwest. Monte Stello consists of Cretaceous ophiolites that were formed during the Alpine orogeny. Hiking The trail from the hamlet of Pozzo has a total ascent of about . It is long and takes about six and a half hours to complete, but is well-marked and not technically demanding. It runs through maquis shrubland 220px, Low maquis in Corsica 220px, High ''macchia'' in S ...
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Cima Di E Follicie
Cima di e Follicie is a mountain in the department of Haute-Corse on the island of Corsica, France. It is in the Monte Stello massif on Cap Corse. Location The peak of Cima di e Follicie is just northeast of the intersection of the boundaries of the communes of Olcani to the south, Ogliastro to the west and Sisco to the east. It is southeast of the village of Canari and west of the town of Sisco. Physical Cima di e Follicie has a prominence of and an elevation of . It is isolated by from Monte Asto to the south-southwest. It is the highest peak in the Monte Stello massif, surpassing Monte Stello Monte Stello (or Monte Stellu) is a mountain in the department of Haute-Corse on the island of Corsica, France. It is the second highest point in the Monte Stello massif, which forms the backbone of Cap Corse. Location The peak is roughly at the ... by . It looks over the Albo beach and Canelle point to the west and the sea around Sisco to the east. Cime di e Follicie consists o ...
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Haute-Corse
Haute-Corse (; co, Corsica suprana , or ; en, Upper Corsica) is (as of 2022) an administrative department of France, consisting of the northern part of the island of Corsica. The corresponding departmental territorial collectivity merged with that of Corse-du-Sud on 1 January 2018, forming the single territorial collectivity of Corsica, with territorial elections coinciding with the dissolution of the separate councils. However, even though its administrative powers were ceded to the new territorial collectivity, it continues to remain an administrative department in its own right. In 2019, it had a population of 181,933.Populations légales 2019: 2B Haute-Corse
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Fold And Thrust Belt
A fold and thrust belt (FTB) is a series of mountainous foothills adjacent to an orogenic belt, which forms due to contractional tectonics. Fold and thrust belts commonly form in the forelands adjacent to major orogens as deformation propagates outwards. Fold and thrust belts usually comprise both folds and thrust fault A thrust fault is a break in the Earth's crust, across which older rocks are pushed above younger rocks. Thrust geometry and nomenclature Reverse faults A thrust fault is a type of reverse fault that has a dip of 45 degrees or less. If ...s, commonly interrelated. They are commonly also known as thrust-and-fold belts, or simply thrust-fold belts. Geometry Fold and thrust belts are formed of a series of sub-parallel thrust sheets, separated by major thrust faults. As the total shortening increases in a fold and thrust belt, the belt propagates into its foreland. New thrusts develop at the front of the belt, folding the older thrusts that have become i ...
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Cretaceous
The Cretaceous ( ) is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya). It is the third and final period of the Mesozoic Era, as well as the longest. At around 79 million years, it is the longest geological period of the entire Phanerozoic. The name is derived from the Latin ''creta'', "chalk", which is abundant in the latter half of the period. It is usually abbreviated K, for its German translation ''Kreide''. The Cretaceous was a period with a relatively warm climate, resulting in high eustatic sea levels that created numerous shallow inland seas. These oceans and seas were populated with now- extinct marine reptiles, ammonites, and rudists, while dinosaurs continued to dominate on land. The world was ice free, and forests extended to the poles. During this time, new groups of mammals and birds appeared. During the Early Cretaceous, flowering plants appeared and began to rapidly diversify, becoming the dominant group of plants across the Earth b ...
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Ophiolite
An ophiolite is a section of Earth's oceanic crust and the underlying upper mantle that has been uplifted and exposed above sea level and often emplaced onto continental crustal rocks. The Greek word ὄφις, ''ophis'' (''snake'') is found in the name of ophiolites, because of the superficial texture of some of them. Serpentinite especially evokes a snakeskin. The suffix ''lite'' from the Greek ''lithos'' means "stone". Some ophiolites have a green color. The origin of these rocks, present in many mountainous massifs, remained uncertain until the advent of plate tectonic theory. Their great significance relates to their occurrence within mountain belts such as the Alps and the Himalayas, where they document the existence of former ocean basins that have now been consumed by subduction. This insight was one of the founding pillars of plate tectonics, and ophiolites have always played a central role in plate tectonic theory and the interpretation of ancient mountain belts. Pse ...
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Corsica
Corsica ( , Upper , Southern ; it, Corsica; ; french: Corse ; lij, Còrsega; sc, Còssiga) is an island in the Mediterranean Sea and one of the 18 regions of France. It is the fourth-largest island in the Mediterranean and lies southeast of the French mainland, west of the Italian Peninsula and immediately north of the Italian island of Sardinia, which is the land mass nearest to it. A single chain of mountains makes up two-thirds of the island. , it had a population of 349,465. The island is a territorial collectivity of France. The regional capital is Ajaccio. Although the region is divided into two administrative departments, Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud, their respective regional and departmental territorial collectivities were merged on 1 January 2018 to form the single territorial collectivity of Corsica. As such, Corsica enjoys a greater degree of autonomy than other French regional collectivities; for example, the Corsican Assembly is permitted to exercise limit ...
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Monte Stello Massif
The Monte Stello massif (french: Massif du Monte Stello) is a chain of mountains in the island of Corsica, France, that forms the spine of the northern peninsula, Cap Corse. It takes its name from Monte Stello, which was long thought to be the highest peak, but more recently it has been determined that Cima di e Follicie is the highest. Geography The Monte Stello massif constitutes the mountain spine of Cap Corse, at the northeastern end of the island. Of the mountains, Cima di e Follicie surpasses Monte Stello by to reach in height. The Col de Santo Stefano, or Santo Stefano pass, provides a route from the Mediterranean coast to the Tyrrhenian coast of Corsica. It divides the Monte Stello massif from the Monte Astu massif, both part of " Schistose Corsica" in the northeast of the island. The Lugo or Campodata stream rises on the western slope of the pass, a tributary of the Aliso River, and the Bevinco The Bevinco is a small river in the northeast of the Haute-Corse departme ...
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Cap Corse
Cap Corse (; co, Capicorsu, ; it, Capo Corso, ), a geographical area of Corsica, is a long peninsula located at the northern tip of the island. At the base of it is the second largest city in Corsica, Bastia. Cap Corse is also a Communauté de communes comprising 18 communes.CC du Cap Corse (N° SIREN : 200042943)
BANATIC, accessed 7 April 2022. The area of the ''Communauté de communes'' is 305.7 km², and its population was 6,706 in 2019.Comparateur de territoire

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Olcani
Olcani (; co, Olchini) is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica. Population See also *Communes of the Haute-Corse department The following is a list of the 236 Communes of France, communes of the Haute-Corse Departments of France, department of France. The communes cooperate in the following Communes of France#Intercommunality, intercommunalities (as of 2020):

Olmeta-di-Capocorso
Olmeta-di-Capocorso ( co, Olmeta di Capicorsu) is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica. The commune is on the west coast of the Cap Corse peninsula. The Olmeta river flows through the commune and enters the sea in the village of Negru. Population See also *Communes of the Haute-Corse department The following is a list of the 236 Communes of France, communes of the Haute-Corse Departments of France, department of France. The communes cooperate in the following Communes of France#Intercommunality, intercommunalities (as of 2020):

Brando, Haute-Corse
Brando ( co, Brandu) is a French commune in the Haute-Corse department, island of Corsica. Population See also *Torra d'Erbalunga *Torra di Sacru See also *Communes of the Haute-Corse department The following is a list of the 236 Communes of France, communes of the Haute-Corse Departments of France, department of France. The communes cooperate in the following Communes of France#Intercommunality, intercommunalities (as of 2020):