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This past weekend Jumilla visited one of the best specialists in plaster, mainly Messinian age (6 to 5.3 million years) throughout the European Community, Professor Stefano Lugli, University of Modena in Italy.
He was accompanied by Professor Lorenzo Vilas, the researcher Consuelo Arias, CSIC, Professor Maria Isabel Benito and Emma Quijada geologist from the University Complutense of Madrid.
Jumilla, was accompanied by Emilio Herrero geologist and director of the Museum of Natural Science Cayetano Herrero.
Stefano Lugli visited the casts of the diapirs in the area, the Peppers and the Cañada del Aguila, and the Municipal Museum "Jerónimo Molina", where he has been studying the ongoing witness of the survey casts of the Hoya de la Sima, "We were impressed by the materials posted and the completeness of collections, as well as the footprints of the Messinian" as pointing from the museum.
It also took samples for some tests with them in Italy, within the research, in which collaborates with the Spanish team.
One of the first results is the similarity observed here with the materials of the same age, he has studied in Sicily and Cyprus.
The museum director has said that "the professor was favorably impressed, the geodiversity of Jumilla and after this first visit, you want to return with their students and faculty of the University of Modena to study on site specific aspects of their specialty given the extraordinary wealth that is concentrated in the area of ​​Jumilla, a few miles. "
Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla
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