Oligocene

Connected Sites: 8

Definition
The Oligocene is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Period and extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present . .. [it] refers to the sparsity of additional modern mammalian species of fauna after a burst of evolution during the Eocene. (wiki)

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Connected Sites

  • Simien National Park
    Simien National Park
    Ethiopia
    Inscribed: 1978
    3.46
    52
    11
    This complex was formed by volcanic eruptions in the Teniary Oligocene-Miocene Age some 20-30 million years ago; ever since, it has been going through processes of uplifting and erosion
    See simienpark.org
  • Tajik National Park
    Tajik National Park
    Tajikistan
    Inscribed: 2013
    3.46
    28
    3
    TNP includes branches of the grandiose Central-Asian mountain ranges which are the result of the uplifting of the Pamirs which started 25 millions years ago and which is still ongoing. (nom file)
  • Wadi Rum
    Wadi Rum
    Jordan
    Inscribed: 2011
    3.97
    228
    8
    Die Landschaft entstand vor ca. 30 Mio. Jahren. (Wiki)
  • Papahanaumokuakea
    Papahanaumokuakea
    United States of America
    Inscribed: 2010
    3.11
    8
    1
    The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands were formed, approximately 7 to 30 million years ago, as shield volcanoes over the same volcanic hotspot that formed the Emperor Seamounts to the north and the Main Hawaiian Islands to the south.(Wiki)
  • Lake Baikal
    Lake Baikal
    Russia
    Inscribed: 1996
    3.59
    77
    5
    It is also among the clearest of all lakes, and thought to be the world's oldest lake at 25 million years (wiki)
  • China Danxia
    China Danxia
    China
    Inscribed: 2010
    3.23
    55
    3
    About 23 ma ago, movement of the Himalayan range, disturbed the land around Guandong, China creating much uplift and completely changing the topography of the area. (Wiki)
  • Chaîne des Puys
    Chaîne des Puys
    France
    Inscribed: 2018
    2.85
    103
    5
    the 30-km-long Limagne fault escarpment as the expression of continental break-up, subsidence and sedimentation which took place between 37 and 25 Ma (million years ago) (AB Eval)
  • Australian Fossil Mammal Sites
    Australian Fossil Mammal Sites
    Australia
    Inscribed: 1994
    2.86
    47
    7
    The older fossils occur at Riversleigh, which boasts an outstanding collection from the Oligocene to Miocene, some 10-30 million years ago. The more recent story then moves to Naracoorte, where one of the richest deposits of vertebrate fossils from the glacial periods of the mid-Pleistocene to the current day (from 530,000 years ago to the present) is conserved. (Nom file)