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Buck'sche Schweiz rock formations

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    December 30, 2021

    Buck'sche Schweiz is a natural monument, a gem made of hardened glass sand. A must see if you are in the area 👍

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      February 25, 2024

      In many places you walk in the forest in the quartz sand as if you were on a Baltic Sea island. The company premises that are cordoned off from mining alternate with a forest and lake landscape that has already been quite well renatured.

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        May 6, 2024

        In the south of the Lusatian lignite mining area, very pure quartz sands are found beneath the Second Lusatian Seam, which were deposited there about 16 million years ago (Lower Miocene) as dune, beach or delta sands.[3] Since the first mining contract in 1857, the Hohenbocka glass sands, which are particularly poor in iron(III) oxide, became known worldwide in the following decades for the production of colorless and optical glasses.[3] Between Hohenbocka and Guteborn, silicification of the glass sands occurred in numerous narrowly defined places, which today form the striking rock formation of Buck's Switzerland at the former Heinrichsschacht sand pit.

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          Location: Hohenbocka, Oberspreewald-Lausitz, Lower Lusatia, Brandenburg, Germany

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