Locality
8°30´ east longitude, 45°0´ north latitiude   [ map ]

Name
Allessandria, Piemont, Italy, Europa

Personal relationship of donor
Exploration for lignite

Historical relevance of location
Tertiary marine sediments crop out over large parts of Italy.

Geological relevance of location
During the warm periods of the Tertiary, the Mediterranean extended far inland, as evidenced by marine fossils.

Classification of the earth

Structure	sandstone containing marine fossils
Colour	yellowish tan
Age	Miocene, Tertiary, 11 million years

Donor

Geoscientific Collections Section of the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources,
 Geological Survey of Lower Saxony,
 Hannover,
 Germany