Science is the "bride" and archeology in Puglia
A group of geologists from Ferrara Altamura to do analysis with the GPR. Watched the dinosaur quarry and the microclimate of Pulo
Onofrio BRUNO
ALTAMURA - Murgia was confirmed as a page of ancient history in the open. These days a team of scholars from Ferrara is conducting tests with the GPR on the rock outcropping in the quarry of dinosaur, and in May professors at the University of Vienna carried out studies on the microclimate in Pulo. With the discovery of dinosaur footprints at the Altamura Murgia has, for scholars and scientists an extraordinary book opened on the palaeogeography of the Mediterranean. As claimed by paleontologists and ichnologi (scholars fingerprint) the discovery of the quarry in the district Pontrelli Altamura is the most important and best preserved in Italy and in Europa.Gli studies have found that there are about 25 thousand or 30 thousand impressions of the Cretaceous, namely the Santonian, located between 83.5 and 85.8 million years ago. A huge field. On paleosuperficie are mainly herbivorous dinosaur footprints' ornithopods "with toed footprints, three fingers. And for this reason the site is included in the list of pre-applications UNESCO, the UN organization that protects the heritage of humanity. This year marks the tenth anniversary of the discovery. But it is closed to the public and is not usable. Although the studies are interrupted. And the steps are exposed to weather atmosferiche.E 'then a novelty in these days of the geologists of a society of Ferrara, authorized by the Superintendence for Archaeological Heritage of Puglia and under the supervision of the Archaeological Museum, are conducting studies on applications of GPR . The activities do not affect the paleosuperficie but the rock minerals and to study the stratigraphy through the latest technology available. The footprints will not be affected nor are withdrawals of rock. In practice, it is a test of the latest technology in this materia.Oggetto studies will be May 17-24, also Pulo, doline karst feature ten kilometers from Altamura. Teachers and students Univarsitaet fuer Bodenkultur Wien (Boku), the University of Earth Sciences in Vienna, will be in Matera and Altamura for studies microclimatologia with a system of remote sensing. The Pulo di Altamura was chosen because it falls within the Park of the Murgia and why, from a technical standpoint, is an "island in a negative climate", ie a place that has deep enough to allow the detection of specific conditions microclimate.
__________________________________________ Gazette noon "on line April 12, 2009
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