Pyroclastoctopus: a hiding lesson
If it weren't for the reddish tentacle's underside it would have been impossible to make a difference between the "Octopus vulgaris" and his hiding place. The surrounding rock is a pitch black pyroclastic material of basaltic composition with scattered carbonate-covering algae of a thousand colours. The piroclasts deposited in a sub-aereous environment in Lanzarote. Sea level rise, due to volcanic downlift, tectonic tilting, climate change and subaereous erosion are all needed to explain the hiding place of such a beautiful animal in a perfect and outstanding costume. Don't forget the octopus' crab-tapa, can't you see it?
Taken on 28
September
2016
Submitted on 14 February 2018
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- Biogeosciences (498)
- Climate: Past, Present & Future (598)
- Field (2572)
- Geomorphology (1162)
- Ocean Sciences (285)
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- Europe (3222)
- Southern Europe (1381)
- Spain (607)
- Exact location (-13.4644 W, 29.0151 N)
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basalt, volcanic landscape, canary islands, atlantic ocean, piroclastic, ocotpus
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Credit: Miguel Llorente (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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