Background to Hungary [antikvár]

The mastodon, the forefather of the éléphant, may well have been a regular visitor to the Budapest of the Ice Age. Its enormous teeth have been found In great numbers at varions places in rocks along the DanubeI he granite of one of our mountain chains in Transdanubia 300 million years ago lay in Africa, approximately in the region where Angola and Zambiacr.Gerecse mountains took their place on the raft, while the layers carrying bauxité and form the Bakony and Vértes mountains took theirs 100 million years ago.What was there on the site of what is now the Carpathian Basin, at theThe granite rocks of the Velence bilis were förmed 300 millión years ago on the 15tblatitnde of the southern bemispbereare today. The 200 million year old lime-stone and dolomite layers have floated from tropical shallow seas, a few centimeters a year to East-Central Europe and now susta in the Buda mountains surrounding Budapest.The rock layer on which our mountains tra velled can be compared to a raft. There were only a few travellers on this raft 300 million years ago. Among them were the slates that had enveloped Hungary's oldest420 million year oldremnants life to be found on the Balaton plateau. The raft on its way north picked up more and more travellers. For instance, it was 200 million years ago that the tropical limestone and dolomite layers that today form the Bakony, Vértes, and