• Vale Florido - chorals and algi

  • Lisboa e Vale do Tejo

  • Porto de Mós

  • Serras de Aire e Candeeiros Nature Park

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  • Access coming from:

    - Porto de Mós (± 20.5 km) by N362 and Pebada Street to Principal street direction Vale Florido/ Cortiçal. The site is on the right on Principal Street;

    - Alcanena (± 12.5 km) by N361 direction Louriceira/ Vale Florido. In Vale Florido turn right to Principal street. The site is on the left of Principal street ±190 meters away from this cross.

    - Rio Maior (± 28 km) by N361 to Coutada de Cima/Cortiçal. On the end of Cortiçal turn left (don’t follow to Vale Florido). The site is on the left of Principal street ±190 meters away from this cross.

     

    GPS: 39.477921, -8.765803

  • Along the road living Vale Florido and Cortiçal and following north to Sto. António’s plateau. can be seen biostromes (sedimentary rock layers made up mostly of fossilized organisms that have been preserved in their natural position) of corals and algae in detrital limestones of the Lower Bathonian (Middle Jurassic).

    These structures interleave several facies that occur in the limestone massif of Estremadura, and can be found elsewhere in this massive, such as in Cabeço Gordo (Codaçal), between Casal Velho (south of the previous location) and Lagar Novo and east of Marinha de Mendiga.

     

    Bathonian – has this name because ir was defined in Bath. Stage of the middle Jurassic between 164 to 160 million years.

    Facies – set of mineralogic, paleontologic and others characteristics of a sedimentary rock reflecting the specific environmental conditions in which the rock was formed or deposited.

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