Shell-limestone
Bad Hindelang, Oberallgäu District, Swabia, Bavaria, Germany
Shell-limestone, lumachelle “Schillkalk” pebble from the “Kössener Schichten”.
Petrography: dark-grey-brown, lumachelle-bearing calcareous limestone, with white to beige-brown shell fragments.
Age: Upper Triassic (Rhaetian).
Origin: Northern Calcareous Alps (e.g. Allgäuer Alps, and Kesselberg-area).
Reference: Günter Grundmann & ...
© Günter Grundmann, Detmold.