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Basalt dike cutting through salt | |
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Merkers, Bad Salzungen, Thuringian Forest, Thuringia, Germany A small tertiary basalt dike penetrates through rock salt. Hammer for scale. Underground salt geology field trip July 2006. |
| © D. Harries | Photo ID: 203045 View Count: 46 |
Blow out | |
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Merkers, Bad Salzungen, Thuringian Forest, Thuringia, Germany Chamber formed by the violent eruption of CO2-rich fluid inclusions in salt. The CO2 stems from tertiary basaltic dikes cutting through the salt seams. Once released, a chain reaction may take place, disrupting large volumes of salt rock. Needless to say that these events pose a great threat to the salt mining. The shattered rock developed a ... |
| © D. Harries | Photo ID: 203047 View Count: 51 |
calcite vein et Jenzig | |
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Jenzig, Jena, Thuringia, Germany Pleistocene calcite vein on the southern slope of Jenzig (trias limestones) |
| © 2009 Ingo Löffler | Photo ID: 221849 View Count: 33 |
Carnallite lens | |
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Merkers, Bad Salzungen, Thuringian Forest, Thuringia, Germany Yellowish carnallite lens in red sylvite. Hammer for scale. Underground salt geology field trip in July 2006. |
| © D. Harries | Photo ID: 203038 View Count: 60 |
fiber gypsum shift | |
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Mönchsberg, Göschwitz, Jena, Thuringia, Germany fiber gypsum shift on "Mönchsberg" by Göschwitz |
| © 2009 Ingo Löffler | Photo ID: 221854 View Count: 44 |
Fleckensalz (Kieserite-rich seam) | |
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Merkers, Bad Salzungen, Thuringian Forest, Thuringia, Germany Kieserite-rich 'Fleckensalz'. Hammer for scale. Underground salt geology field trip July 2006. |
| © D. Harries | Photo ID: 203039 View Count: 49 |
Main head frame | |
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Merkers, Bad Salzungen, Thuringian Forest, Thuringia, Germany Main head frame of Merkers salt mine. Salt geology field trip July 2006. |
| © D. Harries | Photo ID: 203048 View Count: 42 |
Mining tailings | |
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Elgersburg, Ilmenau, Thuringian Forest, Thuringia, Germany View of the old mining tailings |
| © 2009 Ingo Löffler | Photo ID: 225842 View Count: 25 |
Open pit in 1991 | |
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Lichtenberg open cast, Ronneburg U deposit, Gera, Thuringia, Germany A view of the Lichtenberg open pit in 1991 photographed during a field trip to the thuringian and saxonian uranium deposits. |
| © R. Lang 2008 | Photo ID: 191523 View Count: 100 |
Pyrolusite in the rock | |
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Elgersburg, Ilmenau, Thuringian Forest, Thuringia, Germany Pyrolusite in the rock |
| © 2009 Ingo Löffler | Photo ID: 225852 View Count: 47 |
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