Directions by car. Vallcebre and Saldes Gósol
This route by car, travel through rocks
GARONNE, Traffic between the eras secondary and tertiary,
and the massif of Pedraforca, much older.
Since Vallcebre, exit toward Saldes, stop at
No Deig the lookout and make a small detour
until the source of the Cavern.
We also stop at the lookout to see Maçaners
structure and geological history of Pedraforca, Mountain
where we singular stops to reach
Gósol.
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Karstification is the process by which they limestone
dissolving in contact with rainwater that infiltrates the subsoil
through fissures. When the water level reaches an impermeable
where you can download more, form a flooded area pot sortir
a la surface with surgencia font.
- Vallcebre. Amidst the wide Vallcebre syncline
and very close to the old coal mines open end-
goals-Vallcebre, where the set of fossils from the area
Fumanya, site of the largest dinosaur footprints
Europe at the end of the Cretaceous period, ara fa 70 million years,
just before being extinguished. We leave the road
north for a few kilometers until you reach the lookout.
- Mirador de Cap Dough. Located just above the so-called
Vallcebre limestones, white and much tougher
the materials that surround, quality that makes them stand out
in the landscape. This limestone layer, d'us 40 meters thick,
Vallcebre is called the bluff surrounding the plateau where
is a village. This ring-shaped due to its
available in a synclinal fold, in other words that is, U-shaped.
- Drilled. Continue on the road until the crossroads
down towards the Collet, until a gorge called
Drilled, where we can closely observe limestones
cliff and less red mudstones Garumnià, outcropping just
under. Carstificades are limestone and water that collects
Vallcebre basin appears just as the contact source
with impermeable rocks, with such can observe it
source side of the road.
- Viewpoint Maçaners. Al PK 12,3 the road to
Saldes. Here we see the consequences of the uprising
Pyrenees during the clash between the Iberian and European plates, i com
rocks were folded and piled in a mantles
corriment.
On the right, the layers of the Sierra del Cadi, mainly composed of
Eocene limestone (tertiary, deposited ago 45
million years), are inclined towards the south and below the sink
Pedraforca Massif.
Al mig, Pedraforca massif consists of two main areas,
on the one hand the peaks are formed by limestone and marl
Early Cretaceous (d'us 110 Ma old), and all the other
solid base, formed by Cretaceous limestones (us
70 Ma) and loams and clays Garumnià.
In this small space can see the three units Geologically-
cal. On the right, the mantle of Cadi, on which is placed
lower mantle of Pedraforca, top, that the two peaks
forming the upper mantle of Pedraforca.
The fact that the oldest rocks are top, and more
youth base, is caused by tectonic compression that
raised the Pyrenees and piled several mantles landslide
on top of each other. All Vallcebre syncline and
Garumnià units are part of the lower mantle of Pedraforca,
which occupies much of the mountains of the Alt Berguedà.
Following towards Gósol, al PK 17,2 we see
Garumnià gray carbonaceous layers full of fossils of bivalves
freshwater plant remains (5), and the neck of the Trappist
(6) the former opencast coal mine and contact between
two mantles Pedraforca. If ens hi acostéssim, would see
as Early Cretaceous limestones are located above
materials garumnians.
In the recreation area of the Plana del Reig (7) see rocks
red arranged horizontally, are conglomerates
Neck Trappist, deposited after the movement
Pedraforca.
- Choose from Hippurittes. Al PK 21,7 There is a sharp bend to the
right with good outcrop Hippurites, about fossils
we see in life position forming a reef. can
stopped the car about 100 meters ahead, a l'esquerra. Is
This large reef fossils formed by elongated
i as banya, with a length that can exceed
the 30 cm and a diameter between 7 i 10 cm. These bivalves
the order of rudists, an order that became extinct at the end
Secondary era, like dinosaurs, fa us 65 millions
years.
9 Gósol, Roser viewpoint. Des d'here highlights the torrent of
Rubinat, going down the neck of Verdet, and the vast alluvial fan
that reaches the village of Gósol. the fans
• the alluvial like this are formed by the accumulation of sediments
transported by rivers from upstream
Mountain.