Penha Garcia, Idanha-a-Nova, Castelo Branco, Portugali
| Regional Level Types | |
|---|---|
| Penha Garcia | Civil Parish |
| Idanha-a-Nova | Municipality |
| Castelo Branco | District |
| Portugal | Country |
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Penha Garcia, Idanha-a-Nova, Distrito de Castelo Branco, Portugal
Parish of Idanha-a-Nova Municipality.
Penha Garcia is located on the slopes of the Serra with the same name. The area exhibits a variety of striking characteristics at multiple levels but particularly in what concerns the occurrence of a plethora of fossils and ichnofossils. The Ponsul canyon, located within the synclinal feature of Penha Garcia, is another feature that can be easily seen from the Penha Garcia castle that sits atop the quartzite ridge that forms the southern flank of the syncline.
At Penha Garcia, in the rocks, you may observe many fossils with around 490 millions years. In those times the continents had a completely peculiar location, forming a super continent named Gondwana. In these waters lived Trilobites, extincted around 250 millions years ago. The Trilobites dominated the seas, and needed to go for sustenance. These marks of activity in the sediments were preserved in the rocks that were formed subsequently. The investigators that are dedicated to the study of these structures, named "icnofósseis", a kind of fossils. People of the village call it "The painted snakes". You may see lots of forms called "Cruziana". The "icnofósseis" of Penha Garcia were described, for the first time, in 1886, by the Portuguese geologist Nery Delgado.
The location of Penha Garcia, in the peak of the mountain range, with a vast vision of the lands from Portugal and Spain, gave it a war place statute. Another thing that should have contributed for the permanence, during centuries, of human communities, should have been the golden mines at river Ponsul.
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Mining concession no. 228 "Veiga do Cravo" (Au), registered on 02-07-1889 (cancelled DG 09-06-1949).
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List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
| Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides | |||
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| ⓘ | Quartz | 4.DA.05 | SiO2 |
Fossils
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| Wikidata ID: | Q1276167 |
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| GeoNames ID: | 8011712 |
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Penha Garcia, Idanha-a-Nova, Castelo Branco, Portugal