ABSTRACT
In the summer, this is a landscape of light grays, tans, and greens (Figure 14.1). Fields of wheat stubble cover all the atter parts of the landscape, on the uplands and terraces. The moderately dense oak woodlands up-valley, near Rodia, (Figure 14.1) transition to scattered oak trees downvalley, near Mega Sirini (Figure 14.2). Where there is no green oak or tan straw, there is light gray mudstone-the gray bedrock seems close to the surface everywhere, and it is exposed in incised side stream valleys and slope breaks. There is little water in the stream and the summer heat is only occasionally relieved by a passing thunderstorm. This is the late summer view of the Leipsokouki Valley, 20.5 km2 (square kilometers), in the prefecture of Grevena, western Macedonia, Greece.
