Morella, Headquarters EJIP IX. Reuse is determined, Morella Castellon city will host the Ninth Meeting of Young Researchers in Paleontology, one of the most important paleontological events of those are carried out regularly on English soil. This meeting, which is the acronym EJIP, already has eight editions per year, reaping one success after another in terms of attendance, participation and media coverage.
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IX, Morella 2011. A Morella (Castellón, Spain) has not lacked for reasons to be chosen as the venue for the ninth meeting, which will be held next May 2011. In strictly paleontological, the sprawling municipality of the city, constitutes a huge reservoir, formed by numerous attractions, as indicated by the former director of the excavations, Dr. José Vicente Santafé the Institute of Paleontology Sabadell, "Where I dug in Morella, I have found fossils. " Different species of dinosaurs, a variety of turtles, plesiosaurs and countless relics of all kinds of marine life and coastal landscape are the paleontological Morella, a window on the Flora and Fauna of the Lower Cretaceous English. Morella
rocks out of the first dinosaur remains Iberian alongside other contemporary creatures back in the last decades of the nineteenth century, when the Paleontology in Spain was only a curious rumor came from Europe and North America. Further research by local deposits occurred at intervals throughout the last century, although Initial findings predicted just a coastal deposit where to find the scattered remains of a land never inhabited by dinosaurs, but an enthusiastic inquiries from local matter, Francisco Yeste, caught the attention of paleontologists from the front line with their findings, which did justice to scrutinize numerous sites and make Morella in the elite of English Paleontology. Currently, there are still many sites for probing and digging and some species are found there waiting to be scheduled as in the case of the Chelonia Morella, some of which may involve the description of new species for science. Their wealth is such that even excavating to lay the foundations of the wind farm required the presence of paleontologists in the works. Paleontology
part, Morella is also a major tourist reference, not only thanks to its impressive fortified citadel, crowned with one of the most beautiful castles and best preserved in the Valencia region, but for architecture, landscape, history, tradition and food with character. Undoubtedly, a city worthy of the event.
As himself Meeting of Young Researchers in Paleontology is concerned, this ninth day elapse between eleven to fourteen years May next, beginning on Wednesday to welcome the participants, thus opening a marathon program of activities to be defined in detail, which runs until Saturday.
For those readers who are interested in tracking the development of the event through the link below will find all available information as fence emerging:
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IX Meeting of Young Researchers in Paleontology (Morella, Castellón). not miss it.
