Locality
9°87´ east longitude, 52°23´ north latitiude   [ map ]

Name
Gott brickworks, Sarstedt, Germany, Europa

Historical relevance of location
Brickworks near Sarstedt use Lower Cretaceous clay. These Barremian clays have a high organic material content. Due to their lamination they readily split into thin layers.

Classification of the earth

Structure	clay
Colour	grey
Age	Cretaceous

Donor

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