Geological Park Gant.
Another part of the Transdanubian Medium Mountains is the Vertes mountain.
Here is a small village of German nationality in the territory of Vertes Nature Park in Hungary named Gant.
Its development was due to its bauxit mine, which was the largest one in Europe. It was opened in 1926 and closed in 1988.
The bauxite, thought to be of Lower Cretaceous age, overlies an uneven surface of Triassic dolomite, and is in turn overlain in part by Tertiary strata, in part merely by unconsolidated materials. Associated faults have been important in localizing areas preserved from recent erosion.
The relics of mining are presented in the mining museum, the geodesical park and the study path. At present it is one of the most important tourism centres of the Vértes.
To solve the tasks you need to log this cache you ain’t got to visit the mining museum, the infoboards on the study path around this interesting area give you the necessary informations, it is very worthseeing walking around the mine and possible to visit free at daylights. Also you may collect pieces along the path but you must NOT leave the marked ways.
To log this cache you have to find out:
1. the name of the geologist who first maped bauxite here?
2. which processes were the very important to origin of bauxit deposits in this area? ( If you look at the first infoboard you’ll find the Hungarian word beside corresponding pic)
3. which three kind of pieces may be collected along the path?
4. take a pic with your GPSr somewhere on the path and load up with your log.
Send your 2. and 3. answers to Paleo.team@gmail.com (no capital letter no spaces)
If your answers are correct you’ll get immediatelly the log permission.
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Don't wait for log permission. You may log your find, I later will check it, if you are right
I wish you all a wonderful caching day.