Locality
9°35´52" east longitude, 51°40´44" north latitiude   [ map ]

Name
Teske sand pit, NW Uslar, Lower Saxony, Germany

Geological relevance of location
Sand from southern Lower Saxony which gained its now unusual orange-yellow coating by weathering in a warm phase of the early Quaternary.

Classification of the earth

Structure	sand
Colour	orange-yellow
Age	ca. 1 mio. years, Pleistocene

Donor

Dr. Peter Rohde,
 Geological Survey of Lower Saxony,
 Hannover,
 Germany