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The Councilor for Education of the City of Murcia, Rafael Gómez, visited this morning the Paleontological Museum of the municipality, a space that has also been attended by students of 3rd and 4th year of secondary school AYS.
It is a visit framed in the activities programmed within the program 'My city teaches'.
"This activity aims to raise awareness of the importance of paleontology and mineralogy in our region, discover our past and participate in its cultural richness, through the study of fossil pieces.The southeast of Spain in the areas of our country with greater complexity geological because it is located in the area of ​​the Betic Cordilleras, "the councilor detailed.
The duration of the visit has been 1 hour and 30 minutes has been guided by a specialist of the Cultural Association of Murcia Paleontology which has allowed them to discover fossils of animals and plants, photographs, maps with location of the sites and explanation of what what Palaeontology entails and the process of fossilization.
Paleontology is the science that deals with the discovery and study of the fossil record.
In the 18th century, scientific studies on fossils were carried out to solve geological and biological problems, as well as the origin and extinction of various forms of life on earth.
Climate changes and the continuous oscillations of sea level will be the main responsible for the development of a series of sedimentary basins and mountainous depressions connected to the sea that after the partial withdrawal of the waters, became large lakes where a large lake would develop. variety of plant and animal species of which have reached us, thanks to the type and thickness of the sediments that buried them and allowed their fossilization.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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