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Fossil-bearing quarries of Meià

Vilanova de Meià, Noguera, Lleida

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Fossil-bearing quarries of Meià

Historical milestone · Vilanova de Meià, Noguera, Lleida

Image of Vilanova de Meià, not of the place itself.

The lithographic limestone quarries of the sierra of the Montsec, worked since the eighteenth century, provided fossils of fish, insects and plants of the Lower Cretaceous. The pieces were distributed among European museums and gave the place scientific fame.

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Photo: jordi domènech (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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