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North Rhine-Westphalia

Arnsberg District

Hochsauerlandkreis

Medebach

Borghagen Quarry

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Germany

North Rhine-Westphalia

Arnsberg District

Hochsauerlandkreis

Medebach

Borghagen Quarry

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Location: Medebach, Hochsauerlandkreis, Arnsberg District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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1. Geological Circuit Düdinghausen (Medebach)

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2. Summit Cross Kahle Pön – View from Kalied loop from Düdinghausen

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3. Borghagen Quarry – Vitsenböhl Quarry loop from Düdinghausen

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Anette

February 1, 2021

The Borghagen quarry is of great geological interest. An informative display board describes how the rock layers were formed over the last 300 million years. Suddenly you feel very small ...

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RonnyBia

September 16, 2020

Lower carbon time

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PeterH65 (a.k.a. "Waldorf")

June 28, 2021

Borghagen quarry - where cephalopods swam in the sea.

Here you can see folds of rock and learn which marine animals lived here in the Lower Carboniferous Period, around 320 million years ago. The quarry wall is a state-protected geotope. Access to the quarry wall is prohibited.

What fossils are there?

The rock layers mainly contain mussels, cephalopods, some of which are rolled up, some are stretched out straight, and often plant remains. In the so-called crenistria horizon of the limestone banks one finds the fossil of the same name Goniatites crenistria, a curled-up cephalopod.

You will find the quarry at the exit of Düdinghausen on the L854 in the direction of Usseln.

Text source: Touristik-Gesellschaft Medebach mbH

sauerland.com/Media/Attraktionen/Geologischer-Aufschluss-Borghagen-Steinbruch-in-Duedinghausen

duedinghausen-hsk.de/geopark/geopark_borghagen_steinbruch.html

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Location: Medebach, Hochsauerlandkreis, Arnsberg District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Borghagen Quarry

1. Geological Circuit Düdinghausen (Medebach)

2. Summit Cross Kahle Pön – View from Kalied loop from Düdinghausen

3. Borghagen Quarry – Vitsenböhl Quarry loop from Düdinghausen

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