Bolca
Sign in to savethumb|Panorama of Bolca Bolca is a village in the Veneto, on the southern margin of the Italian Alps. It is a of the comune of Vestenanova, in the province of Verona. The area is famous for the marine fossils from the lagerstätte of Monte Bolca. It was one of the first fossil sites with high quality preservation known to Europeans, and is still an important source of fossils from the Eocene.
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- Instance of
- frazione
- Demonym
- Bolcensi
- Country
- Italy
- Located in
- Vestenanova
- Elevation
- 850
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Image
- Bolcapanorama.jpg
- Dialing code
- 045
- Patron saint
- John the Baptist
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- Bolca (Vestenanova)
- postal code
- 37030
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thumb|Panorama of Bolca Bolca is a village in the Veneto, on the southern margin of the Italian Alps. It is a of the comune of Vestenanova, in the province of Verona. The area is famous for the marine fossils from the lagerstätte of Monte Bolca. It was one of the first fossil sites with high quality preservation known to Europeans, and is still an important source of fossils from the Eocene.
==Geography== Bolca lies in the Lessini Alps. Monte Bolca was originally at the bottom of the Tethys Ocean before being uplifted from the ocean floor during the formation of the Alps. This happened in two stages, one 24 million years ago and one between 30 and 50 million years ago.
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