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Morning dawn in Messel Pit
Messel Pit Fossil Site2010
UNESCO World Heritage
As the Messel Pit is the former site of an oil shale mine, the land surface has been significantly disturbed. Paradoxically, if there had been no mine, the scientific values of the property would have never been discovered.
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- Title: Morning dawn in Messel Pit
- Creator: Messel Pit Fossil Site
- Date Created: 2010
- Location Created: Germany
- Rights: Inge Hoffmann
- Location: Germany
- Inscription Criteria: Criteria: (viii)
- Date of Inscription: 2010
- Category of Site: Natural site
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