Jurassic underground in Bucharest
Politehnica subway station in Bucharest, Romania, is paved with marble plates full of fossils, which lived on Earth during Cretaceous ( 145.5 ± 4 to 65.5 ± 0.3 million years ago.) The Cretaceous was a period with a relatively warm climate and high eustatic sea level. The oceans and seas were populated with now extinct marine reptiles, ammonites and rudists; and the land by dinosaurs.
It seems that in a hurry to launch the subway station, the builders haven't paid much attention of what kind of marble they use. Since 1983, the marble extracted from Rosia Montana (Apuseni Mountains, Transylvania) is lying on the floor like a red carpet full of "crumbs" older than 80 million years. Epic.
More pictures and full article here. ( It is translated in English from Romanian with Google translate, that's why in the headline is written I <3 London instead of I <3 Bucharest )
The marble from the subway station
A scene from Tree of Life , the era of dinosaurs from where the marble comes.
and the same scene from the screenplay written by Terrence Malick
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