Geological deposits in Belgrade over 170 million years old

BELGRADE - The oldest geological deposits in Belgrade, discovered in the urban municipality of Rakovica, are over 170 million years old, Ljupko Rundic, a professor at the Faculty of Mining And Geology of the University of Belgrade, said on Wednesday.

During a lecture on geological protected areas, organised to mark Earth Day, he noted that in 1968 and 1969 there were three protected natural geological monuments in Belgrade - the Tasmajdan Park, the loess profile in the Belgrade Fortress and Masin majdan in Topcider Park.

We now have another two natural monuments that are protected - the Zemun loess profile and the Kapela loess profile in the Batajnica district, which are an extremely valuable archive of information about geological history, Rundic said.

The Zemun loess profile is situated in the territory of the urban municipality of Zemun and is over half a million years old, and about a hundred times older than the Neolithic culture of Vinca, whose ethnological park is also located in the broader territory of Belgrade, he said.

Photo Tanjug, N. Petrovic (illustration)