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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