Gallese Ryes

Boars Beach, near the town of Helgaray, stands as the characteristical example of sea-by flysch formations across the eastern hemisphere

Formerly nicknamed the Giant's Road, the Gallese Ryes Geopark is an area located in the east of mainland Riamo, which posesses unique geological Flysch-type features created by deep water currents and avalanches during the Cenozoic geological era.

The park's characteristical image is likely to be Boars Beach: a large area where the Flysch sediments form a wave-cut platform and can be observed both as part of the natural sea cliffs and as the main component of the bay's surface rock.

While several other places with such characteristics exist worldwide, the Giant's Road stands out because of its rich fossil record, which is often used as the primary chronological reference to date soils and rocks throughout the Riamese mainland and the northeastern Nostrian.

Flysch

The Gallese Ryes National Park features extensive continuous cliffed coasts through its lenght, with minor enclosed beaches in between, most as direct consequence of the sedimentary process of the uppermost layers of the cliffs. Most of the cliffs feature Flysch-type features visible from the surface, which constitute the largest compilation of such formations in Hirethia.

Because of is clarity, the notably homogenous sedimentary plains, and the rich fossil record, the Gallese Ryes' flysch formations served as the base for the initial versions of several stratigraphic columns of regions across the Nostrian Sea, and serving as the main visual representation of the Riamese Stratigraphic Column.

The National Guri Museum of Geology features a permanent exhibition of the Riamese Stratigraphic Column in the way of a large collection of continuous rock cilinders which were extracted at the nearby town of Helgaray.