Gallese Ryes
Formerly nicknamed the Giant's Road, the Gallese Ryes geological features 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 some of the first Riamese geology works, as well as being one of the main reference points for the creation of several stratigraphic columns of regions across the Nostrian Sea, including 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.
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