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Locality
9°43´ east longitude, 52°42´ north latitiude   [ map ]

Name
Wunstorf, Germany, Europa

Personal relationship of donor
Study of erratics for geological mapping

Historical relevance of location
Pebbles and boulders made of Palaeozoic sedimentary rock from the Baltic region are indicator stones of glacier transported material. Orthoceras limestone contains fossils of an extinct predecessor of the present-day squid.

Classification of the earth
Structure Orthoceras limestone
Colour reddish brown
Age glacial erratic of Ordovician limestone

Donor

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

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