Picture by M. Zeltins
Coordinates: N 57°15'02,9" E 24°58'20,9"
Location: Cesis district, Straupe municipality, right bank of Gauja upstreams from Brasla River mouth, 700 m SW from Ermani;
Description:
Outstanding nearly white and yellowish sandstone cliffs. Look at their best in late afternoon, when
the Sun shines over the cliff. The largest monolithic cliff is some 250 m long, but smaller
outcrops are seen over 1 km distance. The height of the central part - up to 20 m.
Paleonthologist E. Ulprecht found the remains of unknown animals here in 1830. In 1839 it was stated
that those remnants belong to ancient fishes - placoderm fish. Placoderm Asterolepis ornata was
identified here in 1840. Those fishes were up to 6 m long.
There have been discovered several more new species of extinct organisms around those cliffs.
Ermana cliff is collapsing and overgrowing with bush.
Picture by M. Zeltins
Picture by M. Zeltins
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