WHAT'S NEW
On May Day a special local market opens its gate to the visitors in the Miocene Park.
The photo exhibition of the best Nature Photographers of the year 2012 opens on March 8. The winners of the last year's contest, organised by the Hungarian Association of Nature Photographers - can be seen in the Hall of the Ancient Pine Visitor Centre until Easter.
The end of the year was peaceful in the crossborder Novohrad – Nógrád Geopark. Its continental climate made sure that peaceful snow blanket covered it, when out of blue, more exactly because of the snow, out of white, shocking news started to circulate!
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Fossils
The Lower Miocene strata of the Ipolytarnoc Fossil Site contains both marine and terrestrial fossils, including shark teeth, petrified trees, leaf impressions and tracks. Footprints of 11 vertebrate species have been described on the footprint-bearing sandstone, which was conserved by volcanic tuff covering.
It was due to the sudden volcanic catastrophe, which buried and conserved the paleohabitat, that fossil remains in so many plentitude survived. The site is considered the prime fossil locality of Hungary.
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