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Did you know that Grass from 5 million years ago!

As short-lived as a blade of grass... And yet this common comparison does not always turn out to be true. In the collection of Małopolska’s Virtual Museums you can see blades of grass that have survived over 5 million years! Frozen in a halite crystals, they are like jewels in a transparent frame. Although the green hue has lost its vibrancy...
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Did you know that Zinc and lead minerals

Sandstone with mudstone intercalations and marl with marly limestone deposited first in  shallow then in a deeper basin in the Triassic. A carbonate complex, build mainly of limestone and partly of dolomite developed in the Middle Triassic. 
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Did you know that Ammonites from the Kraków area

At the end of the Triassic and beginning of the Jurassic carbonate formations were being destroyed and removed from the land. The Middle Jurassic sea entered into the vicinity of Kraków in the Upper Bathonian and lasted till the Kimmeridgian.

 

 
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Did you know that Liliowce to nie tylko kwiaty

Liliowce to gromada z typu szkarłupni, która obejmuje około 700 gatunków morskich bezkręgowców, występujących głównie w głębokich wodach. Ich ciało kształtem przypomina kielich, posiadają pięć lub więcej pierzastych ramion, obrzeżonych pierzastymi wyrostkami, które zawierają narządy rozrodcze. Znajdują się na nich także liczne nóżki ambulakralne o funkcji zmysłowej. 
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Did you know that About the devil who wanted to hide the silver mines near Olkusz

One of the legends of the town of Olkusz, passed down by generations, tells the story of the silver mines, to which the town owed its prosperity. One day, the devil decided to fill up the excavations that were so valuable for the inhabitants of the region.
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Did you know that Kraków Saltworks deposits

Salt exploitation history is connected in Poland, with the Miocen marine deposits filling the Pre-Carpathian basin. The salt series thickness varies from 250 m in Wieliczka up to 1500 m close to Wojnicz. It is built of five cyclothems, that is sedimentation cycles, beginning from aggregated  and argillaceous rocks (sandstones, mudstones, claystone), argillo-calcerous and anhydrite claystone to anhydrites and halites.
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Blogs Entry Jura, kreda, trias…
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Blogs Entry Dzieła natury w WMM
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