Olivier Mével's Photo Gallery
An Amied Beach
An Amied fine sand beach and huge granite boulders by the sea.
Photo 31st May 2019.
Underwater Granite Megalithic Stones
Small quartz vein can be found on the beach around the megalithic stones. Astonishingly this granite dolmen is almost completely over flooded at high tide by the sea.
Photo Olivier MĂ©vel, 31st May 2019 (low tide) at Kernic bay.
The Granite Citadel
Saint-Malo architecture owes a large gratitude to Chausey islands granite.
Without the contributions of this small archipelago, the city would not have reached its architectural magnificence, not only in the defensive works, but also in the port infrastructures and the habitat.
After WW2, for the reconstruction of the city of Saint-Malo, if appeal was still made to Chausey islands granite (it is reported that three boats could carry each week 125 tons of stone from Chausey to Saint-Malo), several other continental granites were widely used: Lanhélin in one hand and Le Hinglé, Brusvily and Languédias, all three from the Dinan pluton, in the other hand.
Anyway, the rebuilding of the city in the middle of the 20th century - at the time of concrete - was a great victory for granite stone (Louis Chauris) !
Photo 10th August 2016.
Natural and Human Stony Barrier
Guilvinec, photo Olivier MĂ©vel, 10th February 2017.
Fine-Sand Beach at Canet-en-Roussillon
Looking south-east towards Albera massif, Spanish border and Cap de Creus.
Photo 23 March 2019.
Deep Canal
The Corinth canal is an artificial waterway dug through the Isthmus of Corinth to connect the Gulf of Corinth, in the Ionian Sea, to the west, to the Saronic Gulf, in the Aegean Sea, to the east. The Corinth canal therefore makes the Peloponnese an island, since it pierces right through the isthmus connecting this peninsula to the rest of the Greek territory.
The canal is 6343 meters in length and only 24.6 meters wide at sea level, making it impassable for most modern ships.
The rock walls rise 90 metres above sea level.
The excavation of the Corinth canal provides a unique opportunity to study sediments in its height section. Pliocene and
Quaternary marine and terrestrial sediments testify several cycles of marine regression and transgression. (E. Kamperis & al).
Photo Olivier MĂ©vel, 15 April 2017.
Corinth Canal
The Corinth canal is an artificial waterway dug through the Isthmus of Corinth to connect the Gulf of Corinth, in the Ionian Sea, to the west, to the Saronic Gulf, in the Aegean Sea, to the east. The Corinth canal therefore makes the Peloponnese an island, since it pierces right through the isthmus connecting this peninsula to the rest of the Greek territory.
The canal is 6343 meters in length and only 24.6 meters wide at sea level, making it impassable for most modern ships.
The rock walls rise 90 metres above sea level.
The excavation of the Corinth canal provides a unique opportunity to study sediments in its height section. Pliocene and
Quaternary marine and terrestrial sediments testify several cycles of marine regression and transgression. (E. Kamperis & al).
Photo Olivier MĂ©vel, 15 April 2017.
Sea Weathering
The Pointe de la Torche (Beg an Dorchenn in Breton) is a rocky peninsula barring the south-eastern end of the Audierne Bay. It presents a stony contrast between the long sandy beach of Tronoën to the North and Porzh Karn beach to the South. This promontory shows remains of a human presence in the Mesolithic and Neolithic periods.
The Pointe de la Torche is part of the south armorican domain of the Armorican Massif. This southwest end of Finistère is almost entirely made up of a clear leucogranite massif of two micas known as Pont-l'Abbé granite. This granite is most often coarse, but locally medium-fine (Kermaria in Pont-l'Abbé), or even fine (Kerity in Penmarc’h, Penglaouic in Pont-l'Abbé…). The shore frequently shows an astonishing diversity of granitic shapes evoking, in the imagination, fantastic animals; here and there arise rocks split by deep grooves, weathered by water flow. These means of erosion are favored by the coarse-grained texture of the rock on which gelifraction and micro-bursting (salt spray from breaking waves) act more easily. Sometimes, the base of the isolated rocks has been attacked by soil corrosion, leading, owing to the happening of a notch, to the creation of picturesque "mushroom" shapes. (Chauris).
Photo Olivier MĂ©vel, 10 February 2017.
