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Sot de Chera field trip

Students of the third course of Geology of the Alicante University within the subject of Regional Geology: visit Jarafuel triassic section, Montealegre del Castillo triassic section, Sot de Chera Jurassic section and Monduver geologic dome. The picture shows the in the Chulilla health resort section near by Sot de Chera (Valencia province)

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Field Trip to Almeria

This year the students of the third course of Marine sciences of the Alicante University visit the Sorbas basin, Cabo de Gata, and Mesa de Roldán on November 4th and 5th of 2021. The picture show the student visiting the Torregarcia beach and the Roman remains of a cetaria (a marine factory). The professors in […]

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Monduver Paleolandslide as its relationship with the human use of the Parpalló Cave (Valencia province, Spain)

The Monduver massif located 50 km to the south-east of Valencia city has a well-developed Karst geomorphology and where it stands out the Barx Polje. The Highest point of the Massif, Moduver 841 m a.s.l., is just 10 km inland from the Mediterranean coast. The Parpallo Cave located at the southern part of the polje […]

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Pottery clays quarries in the domain territory of ancient Ilici (Alicante, SE Spain)

The Alcudia archaeological site correspond to the ancient city of Ilici (Roman Colonia Iulia Ilici Augusta). The site consists of an succession of Iberian, roman, byzantine, Visigoth and Moorish settlements (since the 5th centuries BC to the 8th century AC) on the top of a hill that in the 1st century BC was surrounded by […]

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The development of the sinus illicitanus (II)

Change on the coastline of the Southern Alicante region Tent-Manclús, J. E. The Bajo Segura Region is a plain dominated by the Segura River with the mouth towards the Mediterranean Sea on Guardamar. The Hondón and Salinas de Santa Pola lagoons inside the plain, are the remains of a major marine bay known in the […]

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Marine Geology field trip to Sorbas (post-pandemic)

This year the students of the third course of Marine sciences of the Alicante University, could not go for a field trip on November as previous years, visiting the Sorbas basin, Cabo de Gata, and Hoyazo de Nijar. When the courses ended on May most of the students did the visit. The visit took place […]

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