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Close ✕Bottaccione Gorge, Gubbio
A gorge cut through pelagic limestones just outside the town of Gubbio in Umbria, where a continuous section of deep-water Scaglia limestone spans the Cretaceous–Palaeogene boundary.
43.4, 12.6 · approximate · boundary section; studied from the 1970s
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- evidence for The Cretaceous–Palaeogene iridium anomaly — The Gubbio section is where the anomaly was first measured, in a continuous pelagic limestone sequence spanning the boundary.
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