Stork Castle Geosite (Zanjan, Iran📌)

The site is also a key habitat for storks, adding ecological value to its geological significance.

📸Amin Mohseni Ahouei

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Let's check the spectacular Mushroom Rock formations from Zanjan County showing an impressive example of selective erosion. ༄˖°.🍃.ೃ࿔*:･
📘 Inventory, Identification and Assessment of the Geosites in Zanjan County by Amin Mohseni Ahouei

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🏝️ Zverneci Geosite & Narta Lagoon is a stunning site where Miocene molasse forms scenic cliffs filled with ancient sedimentary traces. 🌊🌿 Next to it, Narta Lagoon—creates a unique geo-eco-system with dunes and a beautiful pine forest! 🪨✨

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multi-coloured sedimentary rock sloping toward a triangle-shaped wedge of visible ocean

a thick layer of white rock weathered to expose a purplish sedimentary layer underneath

sloping rock of greys, golds, and rusts

a soft purple-coloured rick with grey circular shapes on the surface

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a greyish rock face with two parallel rows of small circular holes rising at an angle

a small cavern-like cavity eroded into the rock face half filled with water

well-lit view of the inside of one concretions which is deep and ash-coloured

a hand covering one concretion giving it scale

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Aspidella fossil, which looks like concentric oval shaped disks, next to a snail shell

Bradgatia, a small cabbage-shaped fossil

slight indentation of a fossil in a grey rock

Charniodiscus, a fossil with a disk connecting the stem and frond to the ocean floor

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