Showing posts with label Lovrečica. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lovrečica. Show all posts

Tuesday, 14 April 2015

Tracks, tracks again


A mid-Cretaceous layer from the Solaris outcrop, with mud cracks and a possible dinosaur track. The ripple marks on a lower layer. I was standing on the rock that was about 80 cm above the layer with the mud cracks.

A possible sauropod track with my interpretative outline (Albian near Pula)
 A probable sauropod track
A pebbly beach, Pula.
 Some parallel sauropod trackways near Pula.
 Recent dog tracks showing varieties in preservation.
 Lovrečica: a damaged theropod trackway. A buldozer went over them during some construction works.
 Lovrečica: a theropod track.
 Some unusual traces from a Pula beach.
 Sauropod tracks near Pula.
 Theropod tracks (Pula)
 Cliffs (Pula)
 Rudists (Pula)
 A beach in Pula



Tuesday, 5 August 2014

Traces of destruction at the Lovrecica track site

In this photograph the tracks of a medium-sized theropod from the Lovrecica Mid-Cretaceous track site are visible. The Istrian limestone (kirmenjak) is known for its toughness and durability. After all, many of the Istrian/Croatian and Italian towns used it extensively as building stone. Venice is the best known for its use.
Nevertheless, the damage left by the bulldozer driving over the outcrop is visible. It bruised the track's displacement rim (the white traces).
 The entire pieces of track bearing rock surface are missing now. The newspapers were sensationalistic in their reports claiming the tracks had been stolen. In my opinion it is a clear case of the negligence, ignorance and above all lack of protection implementation.


My interpretation is the red outline on the right. The bottom footprint is speculative.


A view at the sleepy Lovrecica, one early December morning in 2012.


The oak trees growing on the beach vis-à-vis Lovrecica.