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Categorie Site: Stratigraphy and sedimentology

Cretaceous – Paleogene stratigraphic section of Zumaia

Eocene turbiditic system in Zumaia

GSSP of the Meghalayan Stage in the Mawmluh Cave

Bilutu megadunes and lakes in the Badain Jaran Desert

The Mesoproterozoic Belt-Purcell Supergroup

Majestic view of expansive slopes of Mesoproterozoic sedimentary rock carved by glacial processes still active throughout Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park.

The Ordovician section of the Hällekis Quarry

View to the north of the Hällekis Quarry. The succession is approximately 35 meters thick. (Photo: Henrik Theodorsson).

The Ordovician glacial pavements of the Tassili n’Ajjer

A glacial pavement emerging from the Saharan sands, close to the Algeria-Libya border. It exhibits parallel striae and grooves (ice flowed away from the observer).

Carboniferous evolution of The Burren and Cliffs of Moher

The karst landscape of the Mississippian limestone of the Burren.

Permian reef complex of the Guadalupe Mountains

The Western Escarpment of the El Capitan (on the right) and Guadalupe Peak (highest in the image), part of the Guadalupe Mountains where a unique stratigraphic profile of the Permian Reef is shown.

Latemar Triassic carbonate platform

The well layered platform interior facies of the Latemar platform (Cimon del Latemar, 2846 m a.s.l.).

End-Triassic Flood Basaltsat the Old Wife

Seacliffs at the Old Wife, with dark flood basalts overlying red sedimentary strata of the Triassic rift valley.
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