{"id":20,"date":"2021-02-22T11:34:50","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T11:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pedrerademeia.geoparcorigens.cat\/pagina-principal\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T09:01:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T09:01:59","slug":"pagina-principal","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pedrerademeia.geoparcorigens.cat\/en\/","title":{"rendered":"Main page"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"cont--text-carousel bg_grey\">\n\n    <div class=\"cont--title\">\n        <h2>The Origins Geopark<\/h2>\n    <\/div>\n\n    \n    <div class=\"items--text-carousel owl-carousel\">\n\n        \n            \n                <div class=\"item content--text-carousel-item\">\n                                        <div class=\"cont--text\">\n                        <p>The Origins Geopark, located in the Catalan Pyrenees, has an extraordinary geological richness, which has allowed it to be part of the UNESCO Global Geoparks Network since 2018.<\/p>\n<p>This territory of 2,040 square kilometers includes 19 municipalities distributed in 4 counties: Pallars Juss\u00e0, Noguera, Alt Urgell and Pallars Sobir\u00e0.<\/p>\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n\n            \n                <div class=\"item content--text-carousel-item\">\n                                        <div class=\"cont--text\">\n                        <p>The Origins Geopark offers numerous activities that allow you to take a real journey through time to discover the origins of the evolution of the Earth and life, from the Big Bang to the present day.<\/p>\n<p>Geoparks are inhabited territories with exceptional geological values recognized by UNESCO that contribute to sustainable local development through the conservation and promotion of their geological, natural and cultural heritage.<\/p>\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n\n            \n                <div class=\"item content--text-carousel-item\">\n                                        <div class=\"cont--text\">\n                        <p>The web portal presented here allows the dissemination of the exceptional fossil record Pedrera de Mei\u00e0 at a scientific, educational and informative level.<\/p>\n<p>The Mei\u00e0 quarry, located within the Origins Geopark, is considered one of the most exceptional geological elements of this territory.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n\n            \n                <div class=\"item content--text-carousel-item\">\n                                        <div class=\"cont--text\">\n                        <p>Some of the objectives of the website are:<\/p>\n<p>(1) to allow the scientific community access to a fossil record that is currently distributed in different museums and centers throughout Europe,<\/p>\n<p>(2) to contribute to the educational programs of Paleontology schools around the world, as well as to primary and secondary schools,<\/p>\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n\n            \n                <div class=\"item content--text-carousel-item\">\n                                        <div class=\"cont--text\">\n                        <p>(3) to contribute to the dissemination of this exceptional fossil record and to the history of its discovery.<\/p>\n<p>From the Origins Geopark we recommend you visit the Montsec de Mei\u00e0 Interpretation Centre in Vilanova de Mei\u00e0 where you can enjoy some of the most extraordinary specimens discovered in this place, and access guided tours of the sites with specialised guides.<\/p>\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n\n            \n        \n    <\/div>\n\n            <div class=\"cont--link\">\n                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geoparcorigens.cat\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">\n                    LEARN MORE                <\/a>\n                    <\/div>\n    \n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"cont--text-carousel bg_white\">\n\n    <div class=\"cont--title\">\n        <h2>Serra del Montsec<\/h2>\n    <\/div>\n\n    \n    <div class=\"items--text-carousel owl-carousel\">\n\n        \n            \n                <div class=\"item content--text-carousel-item\">\n                                            <div class=\"cont--media\">\n                            <div class=\"cont--media-inner\">\n                                <div class=\"cont--video--image\">\n                                    <div class=\"cont--image\">\n                                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"415\" src=\"https:\/\/pedrerademeia.geoparcorigens.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/img-jaciment-pedrera02.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" \/>                                    <\/div>\n                                                                            <div class=\"button--play\">\n                                            <a id=\"play-video\"><\/a>\n                                       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that, for various reasons, still remain very little known, both in scientific circles and in the popular sphere.<\/p>\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n\n            \n                <div class=\"item content--text-carousel-item\">\n                                        <div class=\"cont--text\">\n                        <p>The rocks that make up this limestone massif, which rises up to 1,700 meters above sea level, were formed mainly during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. Of the approximately 150 million years of history of these rocks, we want to highlight a very short period that corresponds to the geological moment in which one or more freshwater lakes occupied this area. <\/p>\n<p>This happened about 125 million years ago, during the Lower Cretaceous, at the height of the dinosaurs, when these bodies of fresh water were full of life and served as a habitat for animals and plants that were deposited at the bottom of the lakes when they died.<\/p>\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n\n            \n        \n    <\/div>\n\n    \n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"cont--text-carousel bg_grey\">\n\n    <div class=\"cont--title\">\n        <h2>The Montsec<\/h2>\n    <\/div>\n\n    \n    <div class=\"items--text-carousel owl-carousel\">\n\n        \n            \n                <div class=\"item content--text-carousel-item\">\n                                        <div class=\"cont--text\">\n                        <p>At the bottom of these lakes, where there was often no oxygen and, consequently, no decomposing organisms, the remains of animals and plants were sedimented together with the calcium carbonate of the waters. The result is sheets of carbonate superimposed to form thicknesses of several centimetres that, inside, hide the fossil remains of the inhabitants of that ecosystem. <\/p>\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n\n            \n        \n    <\/div>\n\n            <div class=\"cont--link\">\n                            <a href=\"https:\/\/pedrerademeia.geoparcorigens.cat\/en\/history-of-the-finds\/\">\n                    See the history of the finds                <\/a>\n\n                    <\/div>\n    \n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"cont--text-carousel bg_white\">\n\n    <div class=\"cont--title\">\n        <h2>Exceptional conservation  <\/h2>\n    <\/div>\n\n    \n    <div class=\"items--text-carousel owl-carousel\">\n\n        \n            \n                <div class=\"item content--text-carousel-item\">\n                                        <div class=\"cont--text\">\n                        <p>Its degree of conservation is exceptional.<\/p>\n<p>We are in a site classified as <em>Konservat-Lagerst\u00e4tten<\/em>, that is, a warehouse of fossils with a high degree of preservation with fossils that show, for example, the marks of the contour of the body, soft tissues or the ribs of a wing.<\/p>\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n\n            \n        \n    <\/div>\n\n            <div class=\"cont--link\">\n                            <a href=\"https:\/\/pedrerademeia.geoparcorigens.cat\/en\/all-described-species\/\">\n                    See the species                <\/a>\n\n                    <\/div>\n    \n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"cont--text-carousel bg_white\">\n\n    <div class=\"cont--title\">\n        <h2>A great dispersion of the findings<\/h2>\n    <\/div>\n\n    \n    <div class=\"items--text-carousel owl-carousel\">\n\n        \n            \n                <div class=\"item content--text-carousel-item\">\n                                        <div class=\"cont--text\">\n                        <p>Unfortunately, the thousands of fossils that have come out of these sites are distributed among various museums and private collections, which has masked the importance of the more than 100 new species that have been described.<\/p>\n<p>And what we can also consider exceptional is the history of its discovery, exploitation and dispersion of the finds, facts that span almost 150 years of history.<br \/>\nHere you can find this story, the characters who participated in it and the fossils they have found.<\/p>\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n\n            \n        \n    <\/div>\n\n            <div class=\"cont--link\">\n                            <a href=\"https:\/\/pedrerademeia.geoparcorigens.cat\/en\/the-dispersion-of-the-collection-history-and-content\/\">\n                    See the collections                <\/a>\n\n                    <\/div>\n    \n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-home.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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