Home » Posts tagged 'Teruel'

Tag Archives: Teruel

Alicante University geology students visit Ojos Negros quarry

Students of the third course of Geology of the Alicante University within the subject of Regional Geology: visit the abandon Ojos Negros quarry. This is an excellent Ordovician-Silurian section of the Hirnantian glaciation.

The picture shows the student at the quarry border.

Ojos Negros quarry

Regional geology field trip to Teruel

Students of the third course of Geology of the Alicante University within the subject of Regional Geology: visit Jarafuel triassic section, Aguaton jurassic section, Murero paleontological site, Fombuena section, Santa Cruz Paleozoic Seas Museum, Ojos Negros Mine, and Orea-Checa road Hirnatian section.

Student in the Aguatón “tunnel” section

The visit took place from 16 to 19 October of 2019 and the professors in charge were Juan Alberto Pérez-Valera and José Enrique Tent-Manclús.

Zoophycos found in the Devonian Santa Cruz de Nogueras Formation, near the village of Santa Cruz de Nogueras. The specimen is now in the Paleozoic Seas Museum.