Rock strata detail in Itzurun beach, Zumaia, Basque Country - stock photo
Itzurun beach, in Zumaia town, Gipuzkoa province, Basque country.This beach is part of Basque Coast Geopark, a place that preserves the history of some of the most dramatic episodes in the Earth’s recent history. This geological history we can see in the formation of rock layers known as Flysch deposits.The spectacular formation of layers of rock called Flysch which, as a great encyclopedia, show us more than 60 million years of the history of the Earth. When walking along these cliffs you can discover, for example, the thin black layer that shows the impact of a large asteroid and the great extinction of the dinosaurs about 65 million years ago.

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