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El medi natural del Bages i del Moianès

El medi natural del Bages i del Moianès

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INTRODUCTION Geografically, the district of Bages belongs to the Central Catalonian depression which is the eastern sector of the basin of the river Ebre. This low lands region borders on the mountain range of Pyrenees by the north, on the Catalonian Coastal range by the east and on the Iberian range by the south-west. During … Read more

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Conglomerate

Sandstone

Fluvial terrace

Limestone

Lake limestone

Nummulitic limestone

Stromatolithic limestone

Lake limestone and mudstone

Travertine

Caliche

Quarry

Quarry of Talamanca

Continental mudstone

Stratum of reference of the geological formation Artés

Bluish, marine mudstone

Gypsum

Gypsum in Malrubí

Gypsum in Artés

Lapiez of gypsum in Súria

Laminar gypsum in Oló

Thin layers of fibrous gypsum in El Guix (Manresa)

Gypsum in the Guix fault, in Sallent

Furnace of gypsum of Garrell or La Carrera (Cabrianes, Sallent)

Salts in Cardona

Traces if coal lignite in cliff of santa Caterina, Manresa

Calcite

Macaroni stalactites

Malachite

Azurite

Pyrite

Hexahydrite

Halite

Halite speleothems

Silvite

Salt stalactites in the spring of Pitoi

Carnalite

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