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Limestone from
Limestone quarry, Medenbach, Breitscheid, Lahn-Dill-Kreis, Giessen Region, Hesse, Germany


Locality type:Quarry
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Type:Limestone
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Validity:Believed Valid
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Mineral Data:Click here to view Limestone data
Locality Data:Click here to view Limestone quarry, Medenbach, Breitscheid, Lahn-Dill-Kreis, Giessen Region, Hesse, Germany
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1084207
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1084207:0
GUID (UUID V4):fa071f78-3d63-4953-817c-b2bf8ee9289c
Nearest other occurrences of Limestone
23.9km (14.9 miles) ⓘLimestone quarry, Simberg, Hermannstein, Wetzlar, Lahn-Dill-Kreis, Giessen Region, Hesse, Germany
29.2km (18.2 miles) ⓘLimestone quarries, Steeden, Runkel, Limburg-Weilburg, Giessen Region, Hesse, Germany
66.4km (41.2 miles) ⓘBromberg quarries, Medebach, Hochsauerlandkreis, Arnsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
80.8km (50.2 miles) ⓘMĂŒschede, Arnsberg, Hochsauerlandkreis, Arnsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
81.6km (50.7 miles) ⓘCalcite quarry, Holzen, Arnsberg, Hochsauerlandkreis, Arnsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
87.3km (54.3 miles) ⓘUnnamed limestone quarry, Niederhof, Messinghausen, Brilon, Hochsauerlandkreis, Arnsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
87.7km (54.5 miles) ⓘMĂŒhlenbein limestone quarry, Rösenbeck, Brilon, Hochsauerlandkreis, Arnsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
89.1km (55.3 miles) ⓘLimestone quarries, Stromberg, Langenlonsheim-Stromberg, Bad Kreuznach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
89.5km (55.6 miles) ⓘLimestone quarry, Madfeld, Brilon, Hochsauerlandkreis, Arnsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
92.7km (57.6 miles) ⓘBleiwĂ€sche quarry, BleiwĂ€sche, Bad WĂŒnnenberg, Paderborn, Detmold, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Devon and N. Cornwall, and that in the Lahn and Dill areas of Germany. STRATIGRAPHY The stratigraphy of...major thrust. This thrust truncates the Ashburton limestone (Middle-Upper Devonian) to the north-east. A branch...along the north-west margin of the Ashburton limestone since the shales on the north-west are Upper,...the south, near Buckfastleigh, the Ashburton limestone thins considerably. A major synclinorium of Upper...grey shale sequence, with occasional lenses of limestone. The anticlinorium north of Dartington may not
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
were to travel 2000 kilometres through Western Germany, set out on the journey which terminated at Cologne.... Massive bedded limestone (Massenkalk) of the Frasnian stage were seen in a quarry near Schmidthof....At the entrance of the quarry above the mas sive limestone, nodular limestone with marl passes up into...into pure grey marl beds. The nodular limestone is rich in fossils, especially Rhynchonella cuboides Mar...reticularis L. and Orthis iwanowi Tschern . In a quarry south of Walheim Station a good secti on of the
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272 Dr. J. H. Parkinson—The Culm in South Germany. relations can be recognized as extending to Biarritz...recognized. VII.—THE ZONING, OF THE CULM IN SOUTH GERMANY. By Dr. J. H. PARKINSON. " TTeber eine neue Culmfauna...xvi. " On a new Culm Fauna at Konigsborg near Giessen, and it? significance for the division of the Rhineland...the neighbourhood of Konigsberg, not far from Giessen, a bed of rock differing palffiontologically and...The rock, a slaty breccia with a considerable limestone content, furnished even on cursory examination
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
following is the method : W h e n the mineral was limestone, or a substance containing a large quantity of...detect its Potash was found present niferous limestone f?om presence, and in one it in all, but in such...abundant, in the tion, fi'om near Fulda in dolomite. Hesse-Casel. Roofing-slate used at Considerable precipitate...but wavellite is found in chloride of platinum Giessen. some localities in the and "a small trace of soda...Obtained sufficient from two ounces valley of the Lahn, Nassau. to test with nitrate of silver. Clinkstone
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Devonian: A case study from the Lahn syncline, Rheinisches Schiefergebirge (Germany) P. Königshof a,⁎, H.-D....Frankfurt, Senckenberganlage 25, 60325 Frankfurt, Germany Hessisches Landesamt fĂŒr Umwelt und Geologie, Abteilung...Rheingaustraße 186, 65203 Wiesbaden, Germany Carl-Orff-Ring 5, 87616 Marktoberdorf, Germany a r t i c l e i n f o...2009 Available online 8 October 2009 Keywords: Germany Rheinisches Schiefergebirge Devonian Submarine...New data from the Rheinisches Schiefergebirge in Germany offer insights into a complex marine basinal facies
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
allochthonous units underlying the ocean-derived Giessen Nappe can be attributed to the strongly extended...Altenhöferallee 1, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany. (E-mail: w.franke@em.uni-frankfurt.de). INTRODUCTION...Correlation of the Rheno-Hercynian Variscides between Germany and SW-England has a long-standing tradition (Franke...open questions. MAIN FEATURES COMMON ENGLAND AND GERMANY TO SOUTH-WEST It is largely agreed that the English...England; (2) establishment of an Early Carboniferous limestone platform on the siliciclastic shelf; (3) Devonian
Book
Justus-Liebig-UniversitĂ€t Senckenbergstrasse 3 35390 Giessen Germany K. WEBER Institut fĂŒr Geologie und Dynamik...Göttingen Goldschmidtstrasse 3 37077 Göttingen Germany Cataloging-in-Publication D a t a applied for...hosted an international conference in G6ttingen/Giessen, Germany. Discussions were focused on the Tectonothermal...compilation of the papers presented in G6ttingen/Giessen. Instead, it represents a coordinated volume designed...possible in a formerly divided world. Athens, Giessen, G6ttingen, 1994 R.D. DALLMEYER W. FRANKE K.
Report (volume)
the deposits....................... 72 Campine region..................................................consumption.......................................... 75 Germany..................................................district............................................ Lahn-Dill district.................................................................... Salzgitter-Iselde region........................................ Harz Mountains.... Kellerwald-Sauerland region................................... Lower Hesse........................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
eruptive rocks (weilburgites), widespread in the Lahn-region, is discussed in respect to its genesis. Their...series of rocks, extensively displayed in the Lahn region, as small magmatic bodies of lenticular (fish-like)...carbonate in the weilburgites:— (1) relics of limestone not recrystallized, in the form of great blocks...sedimentary rock ; (3) gradual dissolution of the limestone-boundary in the adjoining magmatic substance ;...pillows concentric zones of amygdales around a limestone centre, their distance increasing towards the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Iron in the Lahn Ore Deposits E. LEHMANN Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Federal Republic of Germany A brief summary...the iron ore deposits of the Devonian Lahn Geosyncline (West Germany) is followed by the examination of...inclusions of hematite in some keratophyres of the Lahn area. As a result, analytical, mineralogical and...Variation des Eisens in den Eruptivgesteinen an der Lahn und in anderen petrographisch vergleichbaren Gebieten...Besonders aufschlul3reich ist in einer Anzahl der Lahn-Keratophyre das sporadische Auftreten xenolitischer
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Dinantian of the Rhenish Massif (Federal Republic of Germany) RAVHAEL CONIL, Louvain-la-Neuve, and EvA PAVROTn...Neoglyphioceras spirale Subzones, seem to be variegated in Germany and Belgium, but they are definitively poorer than...and the uppermost Devonian - the Carboniferous Limestone on the shelf and the Kulm in the basin- differ...to search for possibly present Carboniferous Limestone foraminifers (Fig. 1). He was encouraged particularly...shelf in the Northwest covered with Carboniferous Limestone (Kulm-Plattenkalk; COraL & PAWOTH 1968: 71ff.)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CEMENTATION IN DEVONIAN FORE-REEF LIMESTONES (GERMANY) WOLFGANG KREBS Institute of Geology andPalaeontology...andPalaeontology, Technische Hochsehule Darmstadt, Darmstadt (Germany) (Received December 30, 1968) SUMMARY Fibrous...and cavities of Devonian fore-reef limestones in Germany. Cementation occurs in some cases simultaneously...lithification are not unusual. Here intraformational limestone conglomerates, partly connected with desiccation...to find in the Devonian fore-reef limestones in Germany an evidence for the time of early Sedimentology
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SEDEX-type mineralizations of the Rhenish Massif (Germany) - implications for future Pb-Zn exploration By...meaneralisationen sowie zwei Eisenerzdistrikte vom Lahn-Dii1surements in Devonian shales along profiles...que deux districts ~t gisement de fer de type Lahn-Dill, s'alignent le long de la zone failleuse syns6dimentaire...clastic sediments revealed that the S E D E X and Lahn-Dill mineralizations at Gfinterod, Oberscheld, Oberhundem...SEDEX-typemineralizations of the Rhenish Massif (Germany) Zone, the Balve-Oberscheld fault zone, and the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
468 Dr. Wheetton Hind—The Culm of W. Germany. to the effect that recent investigations tend to prove...HOMOTAXIAL EQUIVALENTS OF THE CULM OF WESTERN GERMANY. By Dr. W. HIXD, B.Sc.Lond., F.G.S., etc. N the...the Culm of various parts of Germany. The view that the Culm of Germany is of Lower Carboniferous age...the base of the Carboniferous rocks of Western Germany, and that these rocks rest on Upper Devonian beds...Hind—The Culm ofW. Germany. 469 those of the various Culm beds of Western Germany, a very definite and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GERMAN CONTINENTAL DEEP DRILLING PROGRAMME HARALD G. DILL Geological Survey of Lower Saxony, Continental Deep...Republic of Germany/Project Management, P.O. Box 51 01 53, D-3000 Hannover 51 (West Germany) (Received...revised and accepted February 22, 1989) Abstract Dill,H.G., 1989. Metallogeneticand geodynamic evolutionin...central European Variscides (Czechoslovakia, F.R. of Germany, German Democratic Republic) numerous ore deposits..."Continental Deep Drilling Programme of the F.R. of Germany" (i.e. KTB; KTB report, 1986). Prior to final selection
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
A CROSS-SECTION THROUGH THE WESTERN PART OF THE LAHN SYNCLINE. VI. By Professor Franz Michels VII...(2). Westerwald between Sieg and Lahn. (3). Taunus between the Lahn and the plain of the upper Rhine...we find at several places (Kellerwald, Marburg, Giessen) beds containing graptolites, sandy and clay shales...parts fine clay marls, pure limestone, platy limestone and nodular limestone beds were deposited. The floor...quickly subsiding trough embracing the northern region-the south-western Sauerland, the northern and eastern
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
79/2 1401-415 ]Stuttgart 1990 Iron ore of the Lahn-Dill type formed by diagenetic seeping of pyroclastic...Abfolge gebundene Roteisensteinvererzung vom Lahn-Dill-Typ l~it~tsich mit der bei diesen Vorg~ngen erfolgten...vergleichbar ist. Diese Vorstellungen fiigen die Lahn-Dill-Erze in aktualistisch begriindete Modelle zur...volcanics of Devonian age in the Lahn syncline (Rhenish Mountains, Western Germany) reveal a complex development...by cathodoluminescence. Iron ore formation of Lahn-Dill type is recognized as part of this alteration
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
U.S. G. S., I9II, "Geology of the Lake Superior Region," by C. R. Van Hise and C. K. Leith; "Lake Superior...greatesteconomicimportance in the Lahn-Dill district in Nassau,Germany,where the annual productionis in...Similar ores also occur in the Harz Mountains in Germany, at a number of points in Moravia, and have recentlybeen...compositionand structure, and frequently grade over into limestone or schalstein. When calcareous,they are called...essentialfeaturesof these ores, I shall discussbriefly the Lahn-Dill district both because it is the most important
Book
Martin Meschede Laurence N. Warr The Geology of Germany A Process-Oriented Approach Regional Geology...Reviews Series editors Roland OberhĂ€nsli, Potsdam, Germany Maarten J. de Wit, Nelson Mandela University, Port...systematically present the geology of each country, region and continent on Earth. Each book aims to provide... Martin Meschede ‱ Laurence N. Warr The Geology of Germany A Process-Oriented Approach 123 Martin Meschede...and Geology University of Greifswald Greifswald, Germany Laurence N. Warr Institute of Geography and Geology
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Petrology and Mineralogy University of Heidelberg, Germany Formerly Professor of Geology, School of Mines...geosyncline of the eastern Alps H.-J. SCHNEIDER (Munich, Germany) . . . . .. . . ... .. . . . 29 . .. . ... ....(Rolla, Mo., U.S.A.), P. RAMDOHR (Heidelberg, Germany) and W. C. PARK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...and diasporitic bauxites I. VALETON (Hamburg, Germany) . . . . . . . . Discussion of papers in Part B...hisches Institut der Universitat, Heidelberg (Germany). 2 G . C. AMSTUTZ TABLE I RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN
Report (issue)
917(1) Z=4 X-ray Powder Pattern: Richelsdorf, Germany. 4.407 (100), 3.280 (100), 4.250 (80), 3.212 (80)...18.12 Total 100.5 100.00 (1) Richelsdorf, Germany; by electron microprobe, average of several determinations...(2) Zn(OH)2 . Polymorphism & Series: Occurrence: Germany). Trimorphous with ashoverite and sweetite. A...diaboleite, zincite, hydrozincite, zinc (Richelsdorf, Germany); ashoverite, fluorite (near Ashover, England)...from the foundry at Richelsdorf, Hesse, Germany. In a limestone quarry 200–300 m northwest of Milltown
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
exoticVariscan rocks in the Rhenohercynian zone of Germany Received: 8 April 1991/Accepted: 28 September...in the Palaeozoic of the western Mediterranean region, Saxothuringia (south-east G e r m a n y ) and...in G e r m a n y are k n o w n in the area o f Giessen, in the H 6 r r e - G o m m e r n zone, and in...der Universit~t, INF 234, D- 69120 Heidelberg, Germany 1989; Buchholz et al., 1990; Schwan, 1990). An...contained in a nappe system that extends f r o m the Giessen area to the H a r z Mountains/Flechtingen H o r
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Rheinish Slate-Hills.—East of the Rhine, in the Lahn-Dill district, vulcanicity lasted from earliest Carboniferous...Tournaisian olivine-basalts occur in the Carboniferous Limestone on horizon y and in high Cx, sometimes associated...Vulcanicity. 463 during the deposition of the Lower Limestone (Tournaisian) and reached its maximum about mid-Dinantian...Visean vulcanicity is marked by ashes in the Upper Limestone. Near Limerick the intrusive " Upper Basalts "...ash is interstratified with the Carboniferous Limestone (19, pp. 28-9) and is probably of Visean age.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Rammelsberg massive sulphide Cu-Zn-Pb-Ba-Deposit, Germany: an example of sediment-hosted, massive sulphide...exhausted), stratiform iron mineralisation of the Lahn-Dill type, and numerous vein-type base-metal, barite...Braunschweig, Germany E. Walcher Consulting Geologist, Pointweg 7, D-95652 Waldsassen, Germany (previously...Chief Mine Geologist, Preuûag AG Metall, Goslar, Germany) deposits in this class, and the Rammelsberg should...controversial (e.g. Matte et al. 1990). The geographical region known as the Harz Mountains is one of several Variscan
Report (chapter)
Siliceous rocks of the Culm Basin, Germany HANS-JI~IRGEN GURSKY Geologisch-Pal~iontologisches Institut...Darmstadt, Schnittspahnstrasse 9, D-64287 Darmstadt, Germany Abstract: The classic Dinantian cherts of the...the Rhenish Massif and Harz Mountains, Germany, were analysed for their petrography and sedimentology. They...Formation, the Pale Chert Formation, the Siliceous Limestone Formation, and the Siliceous Transitional Formation...and siltstones, phosphorites, metabentonites, limestone turbidites, greywackes and quartz arenites. The
 
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