Monte Arcosu
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Monte Arcosu is a mountain in the Sulcis massif, in southern Sardinia, Italy. It has an elevation of Script error: No such module "convert"..
The mountain has a characteristically truncated cone shape, resulting from the differential erosion which followed its formation during the Variscan orogeny. The massif is formed by a granitic intrusion from the Carboniferous, lying on a Paleozoic schist basement and in turn surmounted by Paleozoic scistsTemplate:Typo help inline. The Variscan orogeny removed the upper schist layer from all the massif's peaks but Monte Arcosu, modelling it and showing the granite along the steep slopes.
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