MENORCA'S STONES

We choose this project because we wanted to know more about Menorca's stones.

When we wrote this project we studied 4t of ESO.

This work forms part of the future "Menorca's green guide for teen agers", that has like objective give to know to you (our partners) our point of view of the island.

Our project talks about the Menorca's stones in general, but we put in the project more information abuot them. This is a brief summary about the final conclusion, after we finished our project.

From this project, we take five interesting thinks, that are the conclussions:

First: Menorca hasn't got the same materials in everywhere. We can find some materials with different geological characteristics. In Menorca there are different stones from different epoch. Owed that in this ones there was different conditions (environmental, climatic, etc.) the formation of stones was distinct.
Second: Menorca can be separated with two distinct parts. This is possible because there are different kinds of stones. We can see the "tramontana" part (at the north of the island) with materials from the primary and the secondary, and the "mijorn" part (at the south) with materials from the terciary.
Third: the north part is composed by irregular materials. So, is more distraught than the south part. The tramontana part is more agrest and the landscape more rich .
Fourth: The migjon part is composed with materials they hasn't suffer erosion. So the relief is more plan and the coast is more regular.
Fifth: There's a relationship among the characteristics of the stones and the presence of the aquifers: In the materials of the primary and part of secondary epochs (great part of Triassic) they aren't porous and permeable stones than Migjon's materials. So, in the northern part exists a great zone without aquifer (it exist however several permeable zones in Jurassic and quaternary lands). The materials from the tertiary (Miocene) are more porous and they can be more permeable. So, in this partthere is a big aquifer.