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The Regional Natural Monument of Pedreira do Campo (), which singularly translated means ''field quarry'', is an area located west of ''Pico do Facho'' and ''Ponta do Figueiral'', in the civil parish and municipality of Vila do Porto, on the island of Santa Maria in the Eastern Group of the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. Along with other sites in Santa Maria, Pedreira do Campo is an area known for the discovery of oceanic fossils, which has allowed a specific assessment of the age of the island. ==History== The first references to this area came from the religious scholar and historian Gaspar Frutuoso who, writing in the 16th century, referred to calcareous sandstone deposits in a quarry near Figuerial, describing the sandstone as ''"...() seafood shells glued on () it"''. Even after its modern re-discovery, by García-Talavera (in 1997), it attracted little attention, until the first international expedition ''Paleontology in Atlantic Islands'' (2002). A workshop followed, entitled ''Marine Fossils of the Azores: Perspectives on the Future'' (presented by the Marine Biology section of the University of the Azores and the Portuguese Ordem dos Biólogos), which first suggested ''"a proposal for protection and classification of Pedreira do Campo as a Natural Regional Monument''. A technical report was published (M. Cahão, et al., 2003) that eventually laid the foundation for the ''Natural Monument'' designation. On 25 December 2002, a resolution-in-council by the Regional Government designated Pedreira do Campo as a ''Regional Natural Monument'' (Resolution nº203/2002), which was approved as Decree 11/2004/A on 23 March 2004. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Regional Natural Monument of Pedreira do Campo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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