Maritimes

August 4 to 21, 2009

Aug 20: parc de miguasha - outside

The cliffs of Miguasha, located near News in the Baies des chaleurs, contain old fossils of 370 million years

In 1842, a scientist néo - brunswickois, Abraham Gesner, is the first to disclose existence. The review which follows reminds of main stages which drive to the creation of the National park of Miguasha in 1985 and thank you his recognition as element importing worldwide Heritage by the UNESCO in 1999. Gaspésie, an old earth as the world 600 million years ago (My), in Paleozoic, Gaspésie was in good party flooded by an important tablecloth of water.

About sixty sites keeps the footprint of this epoch in the world. It is there in Scotland, in Germany, in Russia and in Groënland. Also in Australia, in Nouveau-Brunswrick and in Quebec is.

Spotted by the geologist William Logan in 1845, it me studied in 1909 by John Mason Clark, of the geological Service of the State of New York, and by the paleontologist Yvon Pageau in 1963.

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