Demoiselles Coiffées de Pontis

Demoiselles Coiffées de Pontis
Location Pontis, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France
Coordinates 44°30′15″N 6°21′00″E / 44.504214°N 6.349981°E / 44.504214; 6.349981Coordinates: 44°30′15″N 6°21′00″E / 44.504214°N 6.349981°E / 44.504214; 6.349981

The Demoiselles Coiffées de Pontis is a rock formation in Pontis, near Embrun in the French Alps, located on the edge of the Lac de Serre-Ponçon. The formation consists of a number of hoodoos, described as a "set of narrowly-tapered rock columns....topped with a large rock balanced neatly on the tip."[1] In French, such structures are referred to as Demoiselles Coiffées ("ladies with hairdos").

It is one of the best-known[2] and most attractive[3] examples in France of the structure; an earlier commentator referred to them as "some fifty bizarre columns with hairdos."[4]

View from above.

See also

References

  1. Collins, Russ (2005–2011). "Demoiselles Coiffées". ProvenceBeyond. Retrieved 21 July 2011.
  2. Haug, Émile (1907). Traité de géologie 1. Librairie Armand Colin. p. 386.
  3. Godefroy, René (1940). La nature alpine: exposé de géographie physique. B. Arthaud. p. 121.
  4. G., E. (1900–1901). "Chronique des sociétés Alpines". Revue des alpes dauphinoises (Grenoble: Société des alpinists Dauphinois) 3: 19–21.


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