Locality
6°55´ east longitude, 52°25´ north latitiude   [ map ]

Name
Losser Quarry Outdoor Museum, Netherlands, Europa

Personal relationship of donor
Stratigrahic reference collection

Geological relevance of location
Across the border in Emsland, the Gildehausen Sandstone is a hydrocarbon source rock. Its mode of origin is well displayed in the Losser quarry. In Early Cretaceous times, fine sand was deposited on the tidal flats on the coast instead of the more usual basin clay.

Classification of the earth

Structure	fine-grained sandstone, bioturbated (disturbed by burrowing organisms)
Colour	yellow
Age	Hauterivian, Lower Cretaceous, 130 million years
other	Gildehausen Sandstone, rich in traces of marine organisms

Donor

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