GEOLOGY AND PALEONTOLOGY OF PRAIA DA LUZ
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August 31 | 10:00
Location: Praia da Luz (meeting point next to the Paraíso da Luz restaurant) Org.: Centro Ciência Viva de Lagos Duration: 90 min Age rating: M6 Registration: €2
A volcano approximately 70 million years old, multicolored cliffs 120 million years old, witnesses of the retreats and advances of past seas, as well as hundreds of fossils of Nerinea algarbiensis of the same age, all aligned to reveal what the tides were like during the time of the dinosaurs. This, and nothing more than this, on a journey to the past of Earth.
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