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Sint-Pietersberg
De Sint-Pietersberg is een heuvel ten zuiden van de Limburgse stad Maastricht. Hij vormt het noordelijke gedeelte van het Plateau van Caestert, een zuid-noord verlopende heuvelrug met een lengte van 8 km (van Jekerdal in Maastricht tot Hallembaye in de Belgische gemeente Wezet). Voor een klein gedeelte ligt het Plateau van Caestert ook in de gemeente Riemst.
Mount Saint Peter (French: Montagne Saint-Pierre; Dutch: Sint-Pietersberg), also referred to as Caestert Plateau, is the northern part of a plateau running north to south between the valleys of the river Geer to the west, and the Meuse to the east. It runs from Maastricht in the Netherlands, through Riemst in Belgian Limburg almost to the city of Liège in Belgium, thus defining the topography of this border area between Flanders, Wallonia and the Netherlands. The name of the hill, as well as the nearby village and church of Sint Pieter and the fortress of Sint Pieter, refers to Saint Peter, one of the Twelve Apostles.
The plateau, of which Mount Saint Peter is part, is bounded on the east by the Meuse river (Dutch: Maas) and on the west by the Geer (Jeker). Since the 1930s, the Albert Canal divides the hill in two sections. Near the small Liège province village of Lanaye (Dutch: Ternaaien) the canal cuts through the ridge over a length of 1,300 metres (4,300 ft) and 65 metres (213 ft) deep. The Lanaye locks at the eastern end of the cut permit boats to pass from the upper Meuse and the Albert Canal to the lower Meuse and Rhine basin. To the east of these locks the Meuse has altered its course, creating backwaters and old channels.
Mount Saint Peter's limestone composition, its deposits of flint nodules and its geographic position make it a remarkable place. The locale has been mined for flint from Neolithic times. The network of mining tunnels extended 200 kilometres (120 mi) by the 19th century but was severely shortened in the 20th century by surface mining. These days Mount Saint Peter is considered an important nature reserve, as well as an area for recreation and tourism.
Section of Caestert Plateau where the Albert Canal can be seen cutting through the ridge
In the part of Mount Saint Peter that is in the Flemish municipality of Riemst, archaeological evidence of an Iron Age fortress has been found. The fortress is one of the strongest contenders for being identified as the fortress Atuatuca of the Eburones, which played an important role in Julius Caesar's commentaries on his wars in Gaul. Dendrochronological evidence was once thought to count against this proposal, but more recent review of the evidence has reinvigorated the idea.
During the Middle Ages several castles were built on the hill, of which various ruins remain. The hill was favoured by attackers during the various sieges of Maastricht, most notably by Louis XIV of France in the Siege of Maastricht (1673). As a result of this, the fortress Sint-Pieter was built on the northern edge.
Around 1765 the skull of a Mosasaurus was discovered here in a limestone quarry, one of the first recognised reptile fossils, which was later acquired by the Teylers Museum in Haarlem. A more famous Mosasaurus fossil was found between 1770 and 1774 but was confiscated by the French in 1794 and is now in the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris. Later dinosaur remains were discovered here as well, belonging to Betasuchus and Orthomerus, as well as turtles and fossils of smaller creatures of the sea.
From 1930 through 1939 the Albert Canal was constructed, cutting through parts of Mount Saint Peter. The first ships went through in 1940. The hill's strategic location made it the site of Fort Eben-Emael (1931–35), a major artillery defence point in the Belgian defences against any invading forces coming from Nazi Germany. At the opening of the war, the entire installation was taken quickly by a relatively small number of German paratroopers
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El Mosasaurus fue el reptil marino más peligroso y letal que habito nuestros mares en el periodo Cretácico Superior, su enorme mandíbula estaba adaptada para triturar crustáceos primitivos pero no perdía la oportunidad si había carne a disposición siendo considerado el T-Rex del océano.
Sus cuatros aletas le servían para maniobrar en cualquier dirección siendo estas hidrodinámicas junto con su cola en forma de remo adicional. Su cuerpo tenia forma de barril que alcanzaba los 15 metros de largo (se especula que podrían ser más grandes). Considerando sus características se cree que los “Mosasaurus” podían habitar aguas profundas pero por su herencia reptil debían permanecer cerca de las costas o islas para poder respirar. Otra teoría menciona que podrían dislocar sus mandíbulas para tragar sus presas enteras como algunas serpientes actuales pero aún se debate sobre esa posibilidad.
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En la saga de DinoCrisis el “Mosasaurus” merodean en lugares oscuros de una instalación sumergida en busca de comida, para entrar en sus dominios es necesario un traje de buzo y un arma de agujas que en combinación con la onda de choque puede atontar o eliminar estos reptiles prehistóricos. 🐊
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