Showing the age of the earth

The Dolomites hide a huge geological treasure: the fossilised remains of animals and plants which lived hundreds of millions of years ago in a huge primordial sea, dying there and sinking to the seafloor.
Over millions of years, their petrified remains, i.e. the fossils, formed layers up to hundreds of metres thick.
Large parts of the Dolomites are formed from these deposits of ancient life forms.

Over a period of millions of years, the extraordinary force of nature raised
the seabed by thousands of metres. There
fore, even on the highest peaks, the fossilised remains of deep sea creatures are to be
found. The layers of the Dolomites can be compared to a precise timetable showing the history of the earth, with each
metre providing information about the
developing stages of life both in the sea
and on land, as well as about incredible
climatic changes and geological processes in various epochs.