{"id":243,"date":"2010-12-04T06:45:11","date_gmt":"2010-12-04T05:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primarysocialstudies.skola.edu.mt\/?p=243"},"modified":"2012-04-07T16:12:47","modified_gmt":"2012-04-07T15:12:47","slug":"gebla-safra-or-rina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primarysocialstudies.skola.edu.mt\/?p=243","title":{"rendered":"\u0120ebla Safra (or) Rina?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Globigerina Limestone is referred just by the name of <em>Franka<\/em> even though there are subdivisions of the same layer including Tal-Bajjad, Tal-Kwiener etc. Only the Greensand layer which is a thin layer and sometimes completely absent is referred to in Maltese as <em>Il-\u0120ebla s-Safra<\/em> or <em>Rina<\/em>. So the sequence of rocks from top to bottom is as follows:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Upper Coralline Limestone &#8211; Qawwi Ta&#8217; Fuq<\/li>\n<li>Greensand &#8211; Il-Gebla s-Safra\u00a0(or) Rina<\/li>\n<li>Blue Clay &#8211; Tafli<\/li>\n<li>Globigerina Limestone &#8211; Franka<\/li>\n<li>Lower Coralline Limestone &#8211; Qawwi t&#8217;Isfel jew ta&#8217; Ta\u0127t jew \u017bonqor.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>At\u00a0Primary level we prefer to refer to Greensand as <em>Il-\u0120ebla s-Safra<\/em>. The term <em>Rina<\/em> is introduced later on at the end of Form I.<\/p>\n<p>Edward Gilson 3.12.2010<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Globigerina Limestone is referred just by the name of Franka even though there are subdivisions of the same layer including Tal-Bajjad, Tal-Kwiener etc. Only the Greensand layer which is a thin layer and sometimes completely absent is referred to in Maltese as Il-\u0120ebla s-Safra or Rina. So the sequence of rocks from top to bottom &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/primarysocialstudies.skola.edu.mt\/?p=243\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u0120ebla Safra (or) Rina?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primarysocialstudies.skola.edu.mt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primarysocialstudies.skola.edu.mt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primarysocialstudies.skola.edu.mt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primarysocialstudies.skola.edu.mt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primarysocialstudies.skola.edu.mt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/primarysocialstudies.skola.edu.mt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1501,"href":"https:\/\/primarysocialstudies.skola.edu.mt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions\/1501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primarysocialstudies.skola.edu.mt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primarysocialstudies.skola.edu.mt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primarysocialstudies.skola.edu.mt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}