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View Messel Pit
Messel Pit Fossil Site2010
UNESCO World Heritage
48 million years ago the Messel Pit came (close to a coastline of an ocean on the northern hemisphere of our Earth) into existence by a maar volcano eruption in a landscape consisting of granitic rocks of the Odenwald mountains.
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- Title: View Messel Pit
- Creator: Messel Pit Fossil Site
- Date Created: 2010
- Location Created: Germany
- Rights: Grube Messel
- Location: Germany
- Inscription Criteria: Criteria: (viii)
- Date of Inscription: 2010
- Category of Site: Natural site
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