Pleistocene

Monte San Nicola in Sicily, Italy, south of Butera in the province of Caltanissetta. The red line below the '5' on the rock marks the basis of the Gelasian (Lower Pleistocene) 2.58 million years ago. The Gelasian is a geologic age named after the nearby city of Gela in southern Sicily.

Monte San Nicola in Sicily, Italy, south of Butera in the province of Caltanissetta. The rocks seen here are of marine origin and date from the late Pliocene and Pleistocene.

Monte San Nicola in Sicily, Italy, south of Butera in the province of Caltanissetta. The red line below the '5' on the rock marks the basis of the Gelasian (Lower Pleistocene) 2.58 million years ago. The Gelasian is a geologic age named after the nearby city of Gela in southern Sicily. A geologist is seen at work at the red line.

Monte San Nicola in Sicily, Italy, south of Butera in the province of Caltanissetta. The red line below the '5' on the rock marks the basis of the Gelasian (Lower Pleistocene), 2.58 million years ago. The Gelasian is a geologic age named after the nearby city of Gela in southern Sicily. Two geologists are seen at work at the red line.

Monte San Nicola in Sicily, Italy, south of Butera in the province of Caltanissetta. The red line below the '5' on the rock marks the basis of the Gelasian (Lower Pleistocene), 2.58 million years ago. The Gelasian is a geologic age named after the nearby city of Gela in southern Sicily.

Monte San Nicola in Sicily, Italy, south of Butera in the province of Caltanissetta. The red line below the '5' on the rock marks the basis of the Gelasian (Lower Pleistocene), 2.58 million years ago. The Gelasian is a geologic age named after the nearby city of Gela in southern Sicily.

Monte San Nicola in Sicily, Italy, south of Butera in the province of Caltanissetta. The red line below the '5' on the rock marks the basis of the Gelasian (Lower Pleistocene), 2.58 million years ago. The Gelasian is a geologic age named after the nearby city of Gela in southern Sicily.

Monte San Nicola in Sicily, Italy, south of Butera in the province of Caltanissetta. The red line below the '5' on the rock marks the basis of the Gelasian (Lower Pleistocene), 2.58 million years ago. The Gelasian is a geologic age named after the nearby city of Gela in the south of Sicily.

“Sternberger Kuchen” (“Sternberg cake”), a large late Pleistocene glaciofluvial pebble of a highly fossiliferous, shallow marine sandstone of the North German Paleogene (Sülstorf beds, formerly known as “Sternberg rock”, Chattian, Oligocene, about 25 million years old). The fossil content is mainly made up of mollusks (pelecypods, gastropods, scaphopods). Provenance: Sternberg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Northeast Germany.