The science of belemnites // 75 years ago, the Carpathian geological expedition of the Moscow Geological Prospecting Institute began work in Western Ukraine

During the expedition, another white spot was eliminated on the paleogeographic map of the world at the end of the Cretaceous and the beginning of the Neogene, and this, in turn, made it possible at the beginning of our century to draw up a detailed map of the rather bizarre outline of the coastlines of the archipelago of large and small islands on the site of modern Europe. when dinosaurs grazed and predated here, pterosaurs soared in the sky, and ichthyosaurs dominated the seas and straits of the archipelago. …