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Petrified coral reef

For the last 800 years, lime has been mined here.

But 63 million years ago, it was a giant coral reef at the bottom of an ocean.

If you bring a hammer and chisel, you can find shells, shark teeth, sea crocodile teeth and more.

It was "only" 3 million years after the great meteor strike that killed the dinosaurs, but life on earth flourished again. There is a geomuseum on site that tells about nature at that time.

 

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Uploaded on April 18, 2022
Taken on April 17, 2022