Guardiola de Berguedà, Berguedà, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spaini

Regional Level Types
Guardiola de Berguedà	Municipality
Berguedà	County
Barcelona	Province
Catalonia	Autonomous Community
Spain	Country

Triassic (Keuper lithofacies) gypsum and clay outcrops around the village of Guardiola de Berguedà and in the nearby Llobregat River.

Guardiola de Berguedà (Catalan pronunciation: [gwəɾðiˈɔlə ðə βəɾɣəˈða]) is a municipality in the comarca of the Berguedà in Catalonia. It is situated at the confluence of the Bastareny and Llobregat rivers in the north of the comarca. It is an important local commercial centre, and for this reason, has been less affected by depopulation than other municipalities in the Berguedà. The extraction of lignite is also important to the local economy. The town is served by the C-1411 road from Berga to the Cadí tunnel and is linked to La Pobla de Lillet and Castellar de n'Hug by the B-402 road. The municipality includes a large exclave to the northwest.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Riutort asphalt mine (42.252103°N 1.921634°E) was exploited by the Riutort Mining Company, which was owned by the Frenchmen Jules Claviez and Philipp Petit. They extracted bituminous loam and transported this on mules to the distillation factory, where petrol was extracted from the asphalt.

A few years after being set up, the mine closed because of insufficient production. It is open to the public in guided groups, which descend approximately 340 metres into its depths, to see its extensive galleries, which still drip petroleum from the rock walls and experience the strong smell associated with fossil fuels. It is one of the few underground petroleum mines in the world, an exceptional historical curiosity from the industrial revolution in Berguedà. To preserve and protect its wealth of fauna (Pyrenean newts, salamanders and bats), some parts of the mining installations have been excluded from tourist access.

Fossils

There are 1 fossil locality from the PaleoBioDB database within this region.

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Occurrences	1
Youngest Fossil Listed	66.0 Ma (Late/Upper Cretaceous)
Oldest Fossil Listed	70.6 Ma (Late/Upper Cretaceous)
Stratigraphic Units	Unit No. Occurrences Age Tremp - Lower Red Garumnian 1 70.6 - 66 Ma (Late/Upper Cretaceous)
Fossils from Region	Click here to show the list.
Accepted Name Hierarchy Age Hadrosauridae family Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria : Hadrosauridae 70.6 - 66 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Fossil Localities	Click to show 1 fossil locality

Other Databases

Wikipedia:	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardiola_de_Bergued%C3%A0
Wikidata ID:	Q15519
GeoNames ID:	6356129