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Kellwasser Outcrop (Type Locality of the Kellwasser Event)

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Kellwasser Outcrop (Type Locality of the Kellwasser Event)

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Kellwasser Outcrop (Type Locality of the Kellwasser Event)

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  • Location: Harz Mountains, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

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    January 23, 2019

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    The type locality of the Kellwasser event. Here, the geologist Friedrich Adolf Roemer 1850 after the layers of a major extinction event after. It occurred about 372 million years ago in the Upper Devon and ended, inter alia, the growth of the reefs that had formed the Iberg and the Elbingeröder complex. The term Kellwasser event is used worldwide.
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    Geologically very interesting and well described.
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