• The Zechstein (German either from mine stone or tough stone) is a unit of sedimentary rock layers of Late Permian (Lopingian) age located in the European...
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    coming from the lower Permian sandstones which are sealed by the upper Zechstein salt. The evolution of the North Sea basin occurred through multiple stages...
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  • The Zechstein Limestone Formation is a geologic formation in Germany. It preserves fossils dating back to the Permian period. Earth sciences portal Germany...
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    Hammerfest and Nordkapp basins. In northwest Europe Upper Permian salt of the Zechstein Group has formed salt domes over the central and southern North Sea, extending...
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    rocks of equivalent age in Germany had been named the Rotliegend and Zechstein, and in Great Britain as the New Red Sandstone. The term Permian was introduced...
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    overlain by 1,000-metre (3,300 ft) thick sequence of evaporites known as the Zechstein Formation. Permian Basin (North America) H. Zimmerle, Petroleum Sedimentology...
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    from Great Britain over Germany into Poland. They are located in the Zechstein and were deposited in the Middle to Late Permian. The largest deposits...
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    water well near Hamburg in 1910, leading to minor gas discoveries in Zechstein dolomites elsewhere in Germany. In England, BP discovered gas in similar...
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    extracted (by solution mining) out of ancient seabeds, for example, the Zechstein seabed in northwest Europe. Some deposits result from high content of...
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    ranges in Central Europe uplifted at the same time, are the bordering Zechstein deposits which contain Bryozoa reefs. These stretch especially wide on...
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    Slate is a marine unit that forms part of the Zechstein, a sequence of rocks formed on the edge of the Zechstein Sea, a large inland shallow sea that existed...
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    declared a sub-unit of the Werra Formation, the lowest formation of the Zechstein Group, overlying the Rotliegend Group. The unit has been dated to 257...
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    It is a karst cave developed in dolomite strata that is part of the Zechstein. The cave was first mentioned in the records in 1541. In 1686, Gottfried...
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  • Rotliegend mainly consists of sandstone layers. It is usually covered by the Zechstein and lies on top of regionally different formations of late Carboniferous...
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    Kupferschiefer is a marine unit that forms part of the Zechstein, a sequence of rocks formed on the edge of the Zechstein Sea, a large inland shallow sea that existed...
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    abundant globally, and grew in places such as the Delaware Basin, the Zechstein Basin in Eastern Europe, along the Tethys Ocean, and in cool water shelves...
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    Southern Hemisphere, and contributed to the formation of the immense Zechstein salt deposits in Europe. Pfeifer, Lily S.; Soreghan, Gerilyn S.; Pochat...
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  • 247.2–251.2 Induan 251.2–251.9 Permian Lopingian Changhsingian older Zechstein Major lithostratigraphic units of northwest Europe with the ICS's geologic...
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  • This article describes the geology of the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear in northeast England. It includes the cities of Newcastle upon Tyne and...
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  • Bunter of the British Isles. It is normally lying on top of the Permian Zechstein and below the Muschelkalk. In the past the name Buntsandstein was in Europe...
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    Processes In the Formation and Diagenesis of Permian Dolomitic Stromatolites (Zechstein Group, NE England)". Journal of Sedimentary Research. 83 (10): 896–914...
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    and textures of hydrothermal sphalerite and pyrite in Upper Permian (Zechstein) carbonates of the North German Basin". Journal of Geochemical Exploration...
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    sandstone, followed by dolomite from the upper Zechstein period, and ultimately, gypsum from the lower Zechstein period. These distinct rock sequences are...
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    Triassic) were younger than more advanced reptiles in the Magnesian and Zechstein, which are Late Permian in age. Owen used these fossils to counter the...
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    characterised by a block of bunter sandstone and its underlying formations of Zechstein. The tectonically formed bedding of these rock types and their subsequent...
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    closure and a hydrocarbon column 305 m (1,001 ft) long, formed by Permian Zechstein salt movement in the form of salt pillows. The production zones at a depth...
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    Expro Ltd ATP Oil & Gas Hewett 48/29 48/30 52/4 52/5 Triassic, Permian, Zechstein 48/29A-FTP, 48/29A-P, 49/29B, 48/29C, 52/5A Bacton July 1969 Arpet/Phillips...
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  • She also studied Zechstein halite Permian rock layers from deep boreholes in the Polish Lowlands. Following the discovery of Zechstein polyhalite salts...
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    October 1955, when seeking oil at Thesinge, natural gas was found in the Zechstein formation, but they drilled 40 to 50 meters too little to discover the...
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    located. This geological feature is part of the 240 million years old Zechstein Group formations. The salt dome, with a volume of 46 million cubic metres...
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