Points of interest

Pedras Ruivas Geosite – Local Natural Monument

The Pedras Ruivas Local Natural Monument is a key location which preserves essential elements that help us understand the hydrodynamics of the Rheic – the ocean which separated two major palaeocontinents, Laurussia and Gondwana. More specifically the sedimentary processes of the ocean floor composed of mud and sand (ripple marks and fossilized lamination) and the paleobiodiversity (ichnofossils or trace fossils of arenicola – Scolithus sp. And trilobites – Cruziana sp.).

The deformation geometry of metasedimentary rocks that we can observe here constitute geological records of the Rheic closure process.