Definition of Rotliegend. Meaning of Rotliegend. Synonyms of Rotliegend

- The Rotliegend, Rotliegend Group or Rotliegendes (German: the underlying red) is a lithostratigraphic unit (a sequence of rock strata) of latest Carboniferous...
- hercynian orientation, which consists from sandstones and conglomerates of Rotliegend age in its western parts (Eisenach trough), followed by granites and gneisses...
- corresponding sedimentary deposits in Europe. The Zechstein lies on top of the Rotliegend; on top of the Zechstein is the Buntsandstein or Bunter. The Zechstein...
- ****elian (Lower Rotliegend) of Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany. Sclerocephalus bavaricus (Branco, 1887) from the ****elian (Lower Rotliegend) or uppermost...
- the term Permian, rocks of equivalent age in Germany had been named the Rotliegend and Zechstein, and in Great Britain as the New Red Sandstone. The term...
- upper Carboniferous red beds, which p**** up into sands of the Permian Rotliegend Group; these are overlain by evaporites of the Zechstein Supergroup. A...
- unconformably overlies crystalline Variscan ba****t and its Permian cover (Rotliegend) as well as Eocene volcanic breccias derived from the ba****t rocks....
- alternatively upper Rotliegend), about 284–279.5 million years ago. It was found in the lowermost formational unit of the Upper Rotliegend Group or Series...
- gas then rose to the overlying Upper Rotliegend from the early part of the Permian epoch. Within the Upper Rotliegend it lies specifically in the Slochteren...
- wedge from a continental collision. Also noteworthy are the basins in the Rotliegend, for example the Schramberg or the Baden-Baden Basin with thick quartz-porphyry...