Name 1
SEÑALES DE OLEAJE
Name 2
TRACES OF WAVES
ID number
001.138.Almadén
Manager / Administrator
Javier Carrasco Milara, Cerco San Teodoro, s/n. Almadén (Ciudad Real)
Ownership
Public
Institution
Minas de Almadén y Arrayanes, S.A
Local / Original ID Number
001.001.003.237
Type of Object
Landscape
Description
Short description
The tour of the interior of the mine also brings us to places where geological observations of great interest can be made: different types of rocks (quartzites, slates or volcanic rocks), verticality of the layers due to the folding effect that they were subjected to about 300 million years ago, but perhaps the most spectacular are the traces of waves that have been recorded in them. Although Almadén is now located about 500 metres above sea level and about 300 kilometres from the nearest coast (beaches of Málaga), in the period between 500 and 300 million years ago it was covered by a shallow sea and shaped by currents and tides similar to those of today.
Measures
Materials
Rock
Dating
Author / Producer
Minas de Almadén
Illustrations
Original use
Present use
Museum (1st floor inside the mine, tour)
Original location
Inside the mine (1st floor)
Present location
Inside the mine (mine tour, 1st floor) the mine (mine tour, 1st floor)
STATE OF CONSERVATION
History of conservation:
Present state
good
Necessary activities:
DOCUMENTATION
Addresses /collections/links etc. where further in-depth information is accessible:
www.parqueminerodealmaden.es
Submitted
AYUNTAMIENTO ALMADEN
Submitted by
Águeda Moyano & Alicia Escudero
Date Submitted
28. 4. 2022
Date Edited
Never