Half a billion years, and he carries them well: the geological and paleontological history of Sardinia has been relived (in broad but in-depth lines) by the paleontologist Daniel Zoboli , a 41-year-old paleontologist and professor at the University of Cagliari, protagonist of a conference that brought about a hundred enthusiasts and non-sector enthusiasts to the Paleo museum in Carbonia .

The subject of the discussion is the geological history of Sardinia and its geographical evolution from its dawn, from half a billion years ago with rocks dating back to the Cambrian period.

«Sulcis Iglesiente also has clear traces of it - the scientist analyzed - found in our Carsica valley of the Rio Cannas».

Practically on the outskirts of the city of Carbonia, paradoxically one of the youngest inhabited centers in Italy with just 85 years of age. That type of rock was formed in the sea and then emerged after 50 million years in the Ordovician period with evidence also in Nebida and Masua, in the Iglesiente.

Remaining in Carbonia and its surroundings, «the rocks of Monte Leone and Bcolle Rosmarino are also Ordovician shales with particular limestones of a marine environment, with shallow waters: the same formations that have yielded a fossil relative of a tapir found in the surroundings of Gonnesa», reveals Daniel Zoboli.

The conference made it possible to develop the geographical history of Sardinia on a chronological level, period by period, i.e. a sort of relay race: " A journey that began at the south pole and continued up to the equator ".

The reconstruction of the environments was aided by the fossils displayed in the noticeboards of the Paleo Museum of Carbonia, at the Great Serbariu mine.

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