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Zechstein
Zechstein ech"stein`, n. [Gr., fr. zeche a mine + stein a stone.] (Geol.) The upper division of the Permian (Dyas) of Europe. The prevailing rock is a magnesian limestone.

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- 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...
- 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...
- Society. 20. Eichwald, Eduard (1848), Ueber die Saurier des Kupferführenden Zechsteins Russlands, Moscow Kammerer, Christian F. (2011). "Systematics of the Anteosauria...
- 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...
- 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...
- The Zechstein Limestone Formation is a geologic formation in Germany. It preserves fossils dating back to the Permian period. Earth sciences portal Germany...
- characterised by a block of bunter sandstone and its underlying formations of Zechstein. The tectonically formed bedding of these rock types and their subsequent...
- Rotliegend mainly consists of sandstone layers. It is usually covered by the Zechstein and lies on top of regionally different formations of late Carboniferous...
- extracted (by solution mining) out of ancient seabeds, for example, the Zechstein seabed in northwest Europe. Some deposits result from high content of...
- 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...