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Archives: Geoheritage Sites

The Cretaceous Dinosaur Nesting Grounds of the Willow Creek Anticline

Maiasaura hatching from its egg. Reconstructed cast by J. Horner; on exhibit at Museum of the Rockies.

Whale Valley, Cetacea and Sirenia Eocene fossils of Wadi Al-Hitan

A complete Basilosaurus whale skeleton surrounded by hills. (Photo by Miguel Ángel Sainero).

The La Venta middle Miocene neotropical biome

The ‘La Tatacoa Desert’: the iconic badland landscape of the La Venta Konzentrat-Lagerstätte. Some levels of this variegated middle Miocene rock succession are remarkably fossiliferous.

The modern human fossils of the Kibish Formation

A view of the Kibish Formation exposures at the southern banks of the Omo River (Photograph credit, Celine Vidal).

The Human Footprints of Acahualinca

Close view of footprints showing them extending away. The details of the mud squashed up by each foot is perfectly preserved.

The larvikite plutonic rocks of the Oslo Rift

The larvikite landscape along the coast of Larvik. The rocks showing wonderful glacial features and a pegmatite to the left.

The Rum Igneous Complex

Rhythmically layered feldspathic peridotite close to Long Loch in the Central Intrusion (Brian O'Driscoll).

Devils Tower, Mateo Tepe

Overview of Mateo Tepe showing prominent ‘pillar-like’ relief above the surrounding plain; the vertical lineation of the columnar jointing is also apparent (image from Alamy).

The Mohorovicic discontinuity in the Ivrea-Verbano Zone

The Premosello outcrop.

The Cambrian Leka Ophiolite

Layered peridotites from the lower section of Leka ophiolite complex. The colours reflect varying proportions of olivine, clinopyroxene and orthopyroxene. Photo: Arnfinn Holand.
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