Category: Geosites

Graptolites are the fossil record of planktonic beings that were widely spread throughout the Earth's oceans, at the beginning of the Silurian period more than 400 million years ago. The "La Tejera" site is extraordinarily important because there appears a continuous succession of sediments deposited...

This block of sandstone rock surrounded by deep marine sediments gives us invaluable information about the paleoenvironmental conditions in which these materials were found more than 400 million years ago. The presence of large fragments of rock sedimented between fine-grained materials that are interpreted…

It is an area that offers a general overview of the entire geology of the Geopark and the Alto Tajo Natural Park, some display cases contain hand samples of the most representative rocks and the possibility of observing them in detail using a system of magnifying viewers, several panels…

It is a valley excavated by the Arandilla River in sandstones of the Buntsandstein facies from the Lower Triassic, a reference for the entire Iberian Mountains. The quality with which the details of the stratification of these sediments appear recorded, together with the ease of study they offer, has led to defining...

It is a small valley excavated by the Linares River that constitutes a very extensive sample of the geological and environmental elements that characterize the Molina Region. We highlight the following. The slopes of the valley reveal different types of rocks that show us how they determine biotic communities...

This is the most notable of the many chasms that we can find in the moors that separate the valleys of the Alto Tajo. These moors are the vestige of the wide plains developed at the end of the Neogene in our region and are developed on limestone and dolomitic materials of age…