Locality
6°10´ east longitude, 49°10´ north latitiude   [ map ]

Name
Hettange Grande, Département Moselle, France, Europa

Personal relationship of donor
Stratigraphic reference collection

Historical relevance of location
The Jurassic stages were named for towns near the type locality. The Hettangian is named after a town in Lothringia, the Aalenian after Aalen in Württemberg.

Geological relevance of location
The Jurassic began with a global rise in sea level, observable in the Hettangian stage.

Classification of the earth

Structure	fine-grained marine sandstone
Colour	greyish yellow
Age	Hettangian, Jurassic, 210 million years

Donor

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