{"id":6958,"date":"2021-01-07T12:09:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T11:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geoparc-chablais.com\/?page_id=6958"},"modified":"2021-07-07T15:46:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T13:46:51","slug":"here-the-alps-tell-a-story","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.geoparc-chablais.com\/en\/what-is-a-geopark\/here-the-alps-tell-a-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Here, the Alps tell a story"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"block block-genesis-custom-blocks-introduction\"><div class=\"introduction\"><p>UNESCO Global Geoparks form a mosaic in which each fragment represents a chapter in the Earth&#8217;s history. The Chablais is unique, with rocks that reveal a history that began 250 million years ago: the formation of the Alps.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"block block-core-heading\">\n<h2 class=\"has-text-color wp-block-heading\" style=\"color:#eb5954\">A history with three major periods<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n<ul>\n<li>The appearance of an ocean (the Tethys or &#8220;Alpine&#8221; Ocean) that fractured the Pangaea continent. An ocean floor was created.<\/li>\n<li>A shift in the direction of the tectonic plates, bringing the continents closer together until the central ocean disappeared. A mountain range (the Alps) was created when these plates collided (subduction and orogeny).<\/li>\n<li>The erosion of mountain ranges due to glaciers and glacial melting (creating valleys) and because of rivers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.geoparc-chablais.com\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Vue_lac_leman_bernex.jpg\" alt=\"Vue de la dent d'oche ete du lac l\u00e9man depuis les cornettes de bise\" class=\"wp-image-747\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.geoparc-chablais.com\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Vue_lac_leman_bernex.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.geoparc-chablais.com\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Vue_lac_leman_bernex-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.geoparc-chablais.com\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Vue_lac_leman_bernex-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.geoparc-chablais.com\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Vue_lac_leman_bernex-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.geoparc-chablais.com\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Vue_lac_leman_bernex-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.geoparc-chablais.com\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Vue_lac_leman_bernex-645x363.jpg 645w, https:\/\/www.geoparc-chablais.com\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Vue_lac_leman_bernex-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.geoparc-chablais.com\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Vue_lac_leman_bernex-1110x624.jpg 1110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><figcaption>View of Lake Geneva from the Dent d&#8217;Oche<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>These three phases are visible in the 50 km that separate Thonon-les-Bains from Morzine, allowing us to understand the history of the Earth and the formation of landscapes. This is why the Chablais&#8217; subalpine mountain range (Prealps) has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geoparc-chablais.com\/en\/science-and-research\/geological-description\/\">geological heritage<\/a> of such exceptional value.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"block block-core-paragraph\">\n<p>Located on the edge of the Alpine range, the unique geology of the Prealps strongly impacts the unique geography, cultural heritage, and economic development of the area.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"block block-core-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Before the mountains, there was an ocean<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The sediments at the bottom of the Alpine Ocean formed rocks that were folded, fractured, and raised up, creating the incredible sights that can now be found all over the Chablais.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"327\" src=\"https:\/\/www.geoparc-chablais.com\/app\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Panorama_reyvroz-1024x327.jpg\" alt=\"Grand panorama des montagnes du Chablais depuis Reyvroz\" class=\"wp-image-1259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.geoparc-chablais.com\/app\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Panorama_reyvroz-1024x327.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.geoparc-chablais.com\/app\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Panorama_reyvroz-300x96.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.geoparc-chablais.com\/app\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Panorama_reyvroz-768x245.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.geoparc-chablais.com\/app\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Panorama_reyvroz-1536x490.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.geoparc-chablais.com\/app\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Panorama_reyvroz-645x206.jpg 645w, https:\/\/www.geoparc-chablais.com\/app\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Panorama_reyvroz-800x255.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.geoparc-chablais.com\/app\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Panorama_reyvroz-1110x354.jpg 1110w, https:\/\/www.geoparc-chablais.com\/app\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Panorama_reyvroz.jpg 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>A journey through the geosites allows us to travel back in time and reveals hundreds of millions of years of structural development, tens of thousands of years of glacial activity, and thousands of years of human presence and exploitation of mineral and aquifer resources.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A history with three major periods The appearance of an ocean (the Tethys or &#8220;Alpine&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":725,"parent":7038,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-full.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6958","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.7 - 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