Locality
11°0´42" east longitude, 52°8´44" north latitiude   [ map ]

Name
Schöningen, Germany, Europa

Geological relevance of location
The sample stems from a waste pile of brown-coal mining. Its coal content is too low for industrial use. Instead it is used as building material for sub-soil waterproofing of waste dumps.

Classification of the earth

Structure	Silt with clay
Colour	darkbrowngrey
Age	Tertiary

Donor

Victor Bohnenstein,
 Geological Survey of Lower Saxony,
 Hannover,
 Germany