Locality
9°82´ east longitude, 52°0´ north latitiude   [ map ]

Name
Eimsen, Gronau, Germany, Europa

Historical relevance of location
At the edge of the Münsterland embayment, Upper Cretaceous marly limestone is quarried for making cement.

Geological relevance of location
The seafloor was made of the remains of minute calcareous algae during the warm Cretaceous times.

Classification of the earth

Structure	marly limestone with bivalvs
Colour	grey
Age	Cretaceous

Donor

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