Locality
7°53´ east longitude, 54°12´ north latitiude   [ map ]

Name
Isle of Helgoland, North Sea, Germany

Historical relevance of location
Sandstone containing copper minerals: It is possible that native copper and copper ores from the rocks of Helgoland were used to obtain the metal at the Stone Age/Bronze Age transition in NW Europe.

Classification of the earth

Structure	sandstone
Colour	reddish green
Age	Triassic

Donor

Geoscientific Collections Section of the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources,
 Geological Survey of Lower Saxony,
 Hannover,
 Germany