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In 1834 Guillermo Schulz produced the first geological map in Spain, a 1:400 000 scale map of the area of Galicia. [49] the first geological map of Spain drawn by Joaquín Ezquerra del Bayo. Charles Lyell visited Spain in the summer of 1830 and also in the winter of 1853. Lyell's visit to the Pyrenees led him to study the orogeny that produced ...
English: Map of the major geologic units of the Iberian Peninsula. Divisions are based mainly on the following sources: (1) Vera, J. A. (ed.) (2004) Geology of Spain, Geological Society and Geological Survey of Spain, ISBN 84-7840-546-1; (2) IGME, Geological Map of the Iberian Peninsula, scale 1:1,000,000; Melendez Hevia, I. (2004) Geology of Spain.
The Basque Coast Geopark (Basque language: Euskal Kostaldeko Geoparkea), formally the Basque Coast UNESCO Global Geopark, is an area of the Basque Country in the north of Spain which became a member of the European Geoparks Network in 2010, one of several Global Geoparks in Spain.
The Sistema Ibérico mountain range borders the Meseta Central on its eastern end and separates the Meseta Central from the Ebro valley and from the Mediterranean coast.. This system runs northwest-southeast between the Ebro plain and the Meseta Central for over 500 km, from the La Bureba corridor in Burgos Province close to the Cordillera Cantábrica to the Mediterranean sea close to Valencia ...
In collaboration with the Spanish Geological Society (Sociedad Geológica de España or SGE), the Institute has drawn up a list of internationally important geosites in Spain. This work, which began in 1999, is part of the Global Geosites project promoted by the International Union of Geological Sciences in the 1990s and subsequently supported ...
The Iberian Pyrite Belt is a vast geographical area with particular geological features that stretches along much of the south of the Iberian Peninsula, from Portugal to Spain. It is about 250 km long and 30–50 km wide, running northwest to southeast from Alcácer do Sal (Portugal) to Sevilla (Spain). [ 1 ]
Zumaia (, Spanish: Zumaya) is a small town in the north of Spain in the Basque Country.. The town has two beaches (Itzurun and Santiago), which are of interest to geologists because they are situated among the longest set of continuous rock strata in the world.
Geologic history of Spain (1 C) Geology museums in Spain (1 C, 4 P) H. Hot springs of Spain (3 P) I. Iberian Pyritic Belt (8 P) Impact craters of Spain (2 P) M.