{"id":25827,"date":"2025-04-02T10:13:28","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T10:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pedrerademeia.geoparcorigens.cat\/historia\/lluis-maria-vidal-to-montsec\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T12:19:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T12:19:51","slug":"lluis-maria-vidal-to-montsec","status":"publish","type":"history","link":"https:\/\/pedrerademeia.geoparcorigens.cat\/en\/historia\/lluis-maria-vidal-to-montsec\/","title":{"rendered":"Llu\u00eds Mari\u00e0 Vidal to Montsec"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wrapper-classic-paragraph\">\n<h2><a id=\"primers_contaces_de_vidal_amb_el_montsec\"><\/a>Vidal&#8217;s first contacts with Montsec<\/h2>\n<p>Llu\u00eds Mari\u00e0 i Vidal (1842-1921) was a mining engineer, an excellent field researcher and a pioneer of palaeontology. In 1872, after prospecting the basin with lignites of the Alt Bergued\u00e0, he continued the search for coal in the southernmost Montsec . For two consecutive years, 1872 and 1873, he made two excursions<br>from Santa Maria de Mei\u00e0 and Pont d&#8217;\u00c0ger,\u00c0ger respectively, to the coal levels near the village of R\u00fabies. During these journeys, Vidal fixed the position and extent of the coal layers of Montsec de Mei\u00e0.   <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n \n\n<div class=\"cont--image-gallery\">\n      \n    \n    <div class=\"items--image-gallery owl-carousel\">\n        \n                  \n            \n            \n            <div class=\"item content--image-gallery-item\">\n                <div class=\"cont--image\">\n                    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1039\" height=\"843\" src=\"https:\/\/pedrerademeia.geoparcorigens.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/estratigrafia-montsec-rubies-1873.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" \/>                <\/div>\n                <div class=\"cont--text-caption\">\n                    Stratigraphic profile of Montsec de R\u00fabies with lignite levels (1873) (extracted\nfrom Aragon\u00e9s 2019).                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n\n            \n        \n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wrapper-classic-paragraph\">\n<p>On these first visits, Vidal already located several Aptian fossils, but it was not until 1888, when he was appointed head of the mining district of Lleida, that he explored the massif again. In addition to carrying out geological and palaeontological research, he is also interested in archaeological remains, revealing several dolmens.<br \/>Almost every year, from 1888 to 1895, he made a visit to Montsec, crossing the massif from north to south and from east to west, studying geology in detail, collecting fossils and taking photographs of the area.<\/p>\n<h2>The mining demarcations 1898<a id=\"les_demarcacions_mineres_1898\"><\/a><\/h2>\n<p>One of Vidal&#8217;s tasks as head of the mining prefecture was to delimit the coal and lithographic stone mining concessions on the ground, so he took advantage of these tasks to continue with his geological observations. The first indication of lithographic limestones was made during an excursion to review the stratigraphy on 17 October 1898, between the hermitage of Sant Sebasti\u00e0 and the first cliff, and which possibly correspond to those of La Cabroa (see Aragon\u00e9s 2019), although at that time the road leading to the R\u00fabies quarry was already built and that it was already active, as can be seen in the photograph of October 1899 where the demolition of the farm can be seen. It should be noted that at that time (1898) no fossils had been found in the quarry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n \n\n<div class=\"cont--image-gallery\">\n      \n    \n    <div class=\"items--image-gallery owl-carousel\">\n        \n                  \n            \n            \n            <div class=\"item content--image-gallery-item\">\n                <div class=\"cont--image\">\n                    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"742\" src=\"https:\/\/pedrerademeia.geoparcorigens.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pedrera-1898.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" \/>                <\/div>\n                <div class=\"cont--text-caption\">\n                    Photograph taken by Vidal in October 1899 showing the accumulations of rubble from the quarry                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n\n            \n        \n    <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"template":"","years":[232],"class_list":["post-25827","history","type-history","status-publish","hentry","years-232"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Llu\u00eds Mari\u00e0 Vidal to Montsec - Pedrera de Meia - Geoparc Origens<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pedrerademeia.geoparcorigens.cat\/en\/historia\/lluis-maria-vidal-to-montsec\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Llu\u00eds Mari\u00e0 Vidal to Montsec - Pedrera de Meia - Geoparc Origens\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Vidal&#8217;s first contacts with Montsec Llu\u00eds Mari\u00e0 i Vidal (1842-1921) was a mining engineer, an excellent field researcher and a pioneer of palaeontology. 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