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Flint from
Harz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany


Locality type:District
Classification
Type:Flint
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Flint data
Locality Data:Click here to view Harz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1096935
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1096935:9
GUID (UUID V4):0d17ff33-859a-44ba-a74b-935798f0ad23
References
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Journal (issue)
the Thames and was the location where numerous flint handaxes were discovered (including, at 32 cm long...Übersichskarte von Sachsen-Anhalt 1:400,000, 1993 (Halle: Geologisches Landesamt Sachsen-Anhalt. ISBN 3-929951-00-2)...CC4726 Goslar; CC4734 Leipzig. 3: Geologische Karte Harz 1:100,000, 1998 (Halle: Landesamt für Geologie und...(Saale): Landesamt für Geologie und Bergwesen Sachsen-Anhalt). 6: Bachmann, G.H. et al. 2006. HalleStorung (Mitteilungen...(Mitteilungen zu Geologie und Bergwesen in Sachsen-Anhalt, Bd.10, 154pp. ISSN 1861-8723). 7: Bachmann, G
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Subhercynian Cretaceous Basin in the Harz foreland of Germany (Table 2). Voigt (1929) extended Stille...sediments in the Late Santonian, controlled by the Harz Thrust Fault (the Wernigerode Tectonic Phase). In...Cretaceous Group in particular in northern Spain and Germany (Wiese, 1996; 234 R. MORTIMORE AND B. POMEROL...is a horizon of small-scale slumps , slides and flint shatter horizons (Fig. 3, Fig. 4a to b), associated...1977, 1979). These beds of sheet flint and shattered chalk and flint horizons are described in more detail
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and Johnson, 1999), sequence stratigraphy (e.g. Germany and Spain, Wiese and Kröger, 1998; Wiese and Wilmsen...sedimentary basins and sea-bed highs especially in Germany, Poland, Denmark and the Netherlands. Voigt (1963)...played an important part in fault movements along the Harz and Osning thrusts. Van Wijhe (1987) used compressional...Riedel (1940, 1942) in the Subhercynian Basin, Germany. Tectono-sedimentary structures created by the...released via a network of veins and fractures. Flint and harder chalks caught in the slide planes were
Journal (issue)
FIELD TRIP ALONG THE MIMRAM VALLEY FIELD TRIP TO GERMANY ROCKWATCH NEWS RECENT DORSET RIGS ACTIVITIES WHAT...18. Along the Mimram Valley 19. Field Trip to Germany 25. Rockwatch News 26. Recent Dorset RIGS Activities...obtained on this summer's field trip to Sachsen-Anhalt in Germany will be dealt with later. Elaine Bimpson...at Kimpton Mil 18 escarpment we observed the flint free Middle Chalk in hundreds of rabbit holes and...and scrapes. The summit was pock-marked with 'flint mines', like a miniature Grimes Graves, indicating
Book
by Gloucester Typesetting Co. Ltd. Printed in Germany Contents Translator's Foreword 4 Foreword ...known in some parts of the Continent, including Germany. Ore: Ores are deposits of minerals, which contain...prisms and pyramids. Occurrence: England, Scotland, Germany, Alps, Urals, Brazil, Madagascar. Quartz is important...twinning (No. 7). Occurs in England, Scotland, Germany, Alps, Norway, Sweden. Microcline has the same...Crystals almost spherical (cubic system). Occurs in Germany, Italy, Brazil. (Specimen from Italy). 5 Adularia
Book (volume)
invifible particles. ) / when (truck or with flint, {parks, liquid j r4m4irt dry fixed f ...and beauty and value. lefs glajs flint the Ealt ;n. Saxony, in of oxyd of cobalt , grains come...fine yellow tranfparent amber, and thofe from Saxony yellowiftf white. The Eaft Indian borax, and...Some and Peru. are foqnd in England, Italy, Germany, Hungary, Bretagne, &c. The brown kind, Rome dc...fie has called the Peridot. They ounce of are flint imitated glais, by a and 5 mixture grains of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Agaric Mincral, Silesia, W. to 3s. Agate, ltidnc, Saxony, Sro, Gd. to 9s. Alabaster, Italy, Is. to 2s. Alalitc...Allochroite, Saxony, Is. to 2s. Alloaorphitc, Tliuringiu, 2s.to 4s. Allopltanc, Saxony, Nassau, 1s. to...Aluniinitc, Prussia, Sussex, Is. to 351. Alumocalcitc, Saxony, 2s. to 4s. Numstonc, Huttgary, Italy, 1s. to +s...to Gs. Amber, Baltic, Is. to 4,s. filnb\ygonite, Saxony, 68. to 61. Anictiryst, I-Iuiipy, Khine, &c., Is...Aniianthus, Tyrol, Silesia, Is. to 3s. Atnphibole, Saxony, Sweden, Tyrol, 1s. to 4s. Amphigcne, Vcsiivius
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
superb example of the mineral. It was from Saxony, Germany, and was to me at that time a thing of beauty...black to brown streak. The color is described as flint-gray to iron-black or dull black, the distinction...crystals on quartz. The mines around Freiberg, Saxony, have produced crystals to 1 cm on edge. The American...the Bergmannstrost mine, St. Andreasburg, Lower Saxony, with other copper and silver sulfides, and the...Clausthal-Zellerfeld mines, both in the Harz Mountains, Saxon-Anhalt. It should be noted that some specimens
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Germany, H.i~RRT on the Oligocene of . . . . . . . . ....Northern Italy and the kips, and on the 01igocene of Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . HOCHSTETTER...Brunswick~ VON KOmrEN on the 17 OUgocene of Germany, H~BF~RT on the . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Prof. Roemer to be of Devonian age, I n Thuringia, Saxony, and Franconia, beds corresponding with the first...Capulus which coexist with these fishremains in the Harz contrasts with the nearlytotal absence of that type
Book (volume)
known in every civilized country of Europe. In Germany it has been publifhed by Widenman, Emmerling, Karften...tions an- swered. compofition placed in the flint ; thus they re* genus, although has been found... the clafs of earthy minerals or flones, the flint genus? according to their greater or In poffeffes...poffeffes * In the which 1. I clafs Flint genus. nus. of earthy minerals, there are fix genera...place. firft xxxi fucceeds the clay ge- earthy flint ge- ner “* nus, becaufe of greater affinity
Report (issue)
83 99.54 100.00 41.45 (1) St. Andreasberg, Germany. (2) Přı́bram, Czech Republic. (3) AgSbS2 . Polymorphism...principal ore mineral. In Germany, from Braünsdorf, near Freiberg, Saxony [TL]; at St. Andreasberg and...and Clausthal, in the Harz Mountains; and many other localities. From Přı́bram and Třebsko, Czech Republic...In the USA, in Idaho, from the Silver City and Flint districts, Owyhee Co.; at the Kelly, Coyote and
Report (issue)
Properties: Opaque, except in very thin fragments. Color: Flint-gray to iron-black to dull black, cherry-red in...Pattern: Neuglück mine, Wittichen, Black Forest, Germany. 3.00 (100), 1.831 (60), 1.563 (30), 2.61 (20)...material can be mentioned. In Germany, from Freiberg, Saxony, and in the Harz Mountains, at Clausthal and
by Franckh’sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart, W. Germany. Adapted by Anthony C. Tennissen. Revised Edition...metasomatic deposits. In Germany, found as nicely shaped crystals at Neudorf, Harz Mts.; at Pribram in Czechoslovakia...Idaho, and Tintic, Utah. Beautiful crystals in Saxony, Germany. Massive crystals at Broken Hill, New South...Valley area. Nice crystals at Sieger, Westphal, Germany; at KladnoRodna, Czechoslovakia. Very unusual but...Cu3AsS3 PHYSICAL properties: Color: Flint grey to iron black Streak: Flint grey to black, Lustre: Metallic
Book (edition)
Lieber, © 1969 by Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart, W. Germany. Anthony C. Tennissen. der schénen* Franckh’sche...hydrothermal deposits. Occasionally in igneous Germany, Harz Mts.; and contact metasomatic deposits...Idaho, and Tintic, Utah. Beautiful crystals in Saxony, Germany. Massive crystals at Broken Hill, New South...Valley area. Nice crystals at Sieger, Westphal, Germany; at KladnoRodna, Czechoslovakia. Very unusual but...PROPERTIES: FORMULA: Color: Flint grey to iron black Streak : Flint grey to black, sometimes brownish
Book
75240 Paris, Cedex 05, France FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY Pergamon Press GmbH, Hammerweg 6, Postfach 1305...1305, 6242 Kronberg/Taunus, Federal Republic of Germany Copyright © 1980 Pergamon Press Inc. Library...167 175 186 187 189 216 The Rammelsberg Mine The Harz Union Tankard A Julius Loeser 92 212 214 Foreword...fortunate be¬ cause they found excellent deposits of flint stones occurring in layered strata in formations...limestone and chalk through-out France, Belgium, Germany, and England. In this region, Paleolithic Stone
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
taxonomy, ecology. Upper Cretaceous (Campanian). Germany. Addresses of the authors: Carsten Helm, Institut...Universit~it Hannover, Appelstral3e 11A, 30167 Hannover, Germany; e-mail - Ralf Kosma...Kosma, Peterskamp 30, 38108 Braunschweig, Germany. 0 0 3 1 - 0 2 2 0 / 0 6 / 0 0 8 0 - 0 0 2 2 $ 4.95 ©...central Europe, in particular in northern Germany. Additional flint-preserved material derives from quaternary...cropping out in the Hannover area (Lower Saxony, northern Germany). Careful preparation of larger remains
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
view of the successionof the Palmozoicrocks of the Harz. Upper Silurianrocks. Devonian locks. Transition...surrounding the Harz. Upper Coal, and Permian Deposits. Secondary or Mesozoicrocks, N. of the Harz. RECAPITULATION...insulated mountain-tracts of the Thiiringerwald and the Harz, which in bygone years were traversed by no post...rocks in the Rhenish provinces and those with of the Harz, and also endcavoured to indicate the German districts...first comparative survey of the older rocks of Germany was made, no one had developed in any part of that
Book (edition)
the Sailauf quarry, Spessart Mts., Bavaria. both Germany, and from the Rabejac deposit, Herault dept.. France... = = = = = Acanthite, x 16 mm, Freiberg, Germany, H Abernathyite, 12 mm, Ririera/, France, H Abhurite...at the Himmelsftirst mine, Freiberg, both Saxony, Germany. In the subtropical areas acanthite may occur...the Sankt Christoph mine, near Breitenbrunn, Saxony, Germany, and many localities in the Alps, e.g. on Grossgreiner...89°59',Z =4. d: 12.8(10)-65(7)- hills, Baden, Germany. Most common occurrences in 4.4 6) - 43(6) - 257(6)
Book
by: phosphorite. Found in: Saarland; Ruhr valley; Saxony; Vesuvius, Etna/Italy; Hekla/lceland; Hawai, California/USA;...carnallite, gypsum, halite, calcite. Found in: Lower Saxony/Germany; Czechoslovakia; Yugoslavia ; Surrey/England;...Accompanied by: ordinary coal. Found in: Thuringia, Saxony/Germany; Czechoslovakia; Seine/France, Tula/ USSR....kieserite, kainite. Found in: Lower Saxony, Baden, eastern Harz mountains/Germany; Galicia/Poland ; Urals/USSR;...Hattorf, Philippsthal, Hesse/Germany KMgCl3 • 6 H2O Q) Robling, Halle/Germany 1:½ 3◄ Streak white. Mohs'
Book
by: phosphorite. Found in: Saarland; Ruhr valley; Saxony; Vesuvius, Etna/Italy; Flekla/lceland; Hawai, Califorma/USA;...carnallite, gypsum, halite, calcite. Found in: Lower Saxony/Germany; Czechoslovakia; Yugoslavia; Surrey/England;...Accompanied by: ordinary coal. Found in: Thuringia, Saxony/Germany; Czechoslovakia; Seine/France, Tula/ USSR....kieserite, kainite. Found in: Lower Saxony, Baden, eastern Harz mountains/Germany; Galicia/Poland; Urals/USSR;...colorless © Hattorf, Philippsthal, Hesse/Germany © Robling, Halle/Germany \:Vi Streak white. Mohs’ hardness
Book
answer the purpose extremely well, and are sold in Germany at a — — — — very cheap rate. Besides occurring...apparently proceeding from points on the surface, as in Flint, Chalcedony, &c. Optical and Physical Properties...resemblance to those in the inside of a bivalve shell. Flint and glass are good examples of this kind of fracture...may be tough, such as sulphate of lime others, as Flint, though while others, of which Jade is an instance...SILICA, Silicified Aluminate of Magnesia. Wood. Flint. Houghite. Chert. Spinel. Hornstone. Automolite
Book
immensely popular handbook of minerals appeared in Germany I obtained a copy fo! my personal library and was...and tools. As long as half a million years ago flint was the favorite stone for making the famous hand...one flint mine dating from this period. Finely worked and polished tools and weapons made of flint, nephrite...fibrous sphalerite from Diepenlinchen, near Aachen, Germany. PLATE Vo I~ .·• / ~1 rhyolite 37 r . ...chalcopyrite from Herdorf, Siegerland, Germany. Center. Pyrrhotite. Harzburg, Germany. Below Massive chakopyrite
Book
by: phosphorite. Found in: Saarland; Ruhr valley; Saxony; Vesuvius, Etna/Italy; Hekla/Iceland; Hawai, California/USA;... gypsum, halite, calcite. Found in : Lower Saxony/Germany; Czechoslovakia; Yugoslavia; Surrey/England;...Accompanied by: ordinary coal. Found in: Thuringia, Saxony/Germany; Czechoslovakia; Seine/France, Tula/ USSR.... kainite. Found in : Lower Saxony, Baden, eastern Harz mountains/Germany; Galicia/Poland; Urals/USSR;...Hattor[, Philippsthal, Hesse/Germany KMgCl3 · 6 H2O Q) Robling, Halle/Germany 1: ½ 3◄ Streak white. Mohs'
Book
siderite on quartz, from Neudorf in the Harz Mountains (Germany). The large crystal measures almost 2 1/2...crystals on quartz, Braunsdorf near Freiberg (Saxony, Germany); crystals up to 2 1/2 inches (6 cm) long....with the NO 3group. Apatite, Fichtelgebirge (Germany), 2x 12 Scheelite, Tae-Wha (Korea), 1x The...8ri.iderbund Mine, near Eiserfeld (Siegerland, Germany), 3x almost identical in size. They form an unbroken...with some siderite, from Neudorf in the Harz Mountains (Germany). The largest crystal measures about 1/2
Book
by: phosphorite. Found in: Saarland; Ruhr valley; Saxony; Vesuvius, Etna/lraly; Hekla/Iceland; Hawai, California/USA;...carnallitc, gypsum, halite, calcite. Found in: Lower Saxony/Germany; Czechoslovakia; Yugoslavia; Surrey/England...Accompanied by: ordinary coal. Found in: Thuringia, Saxony/Germany; Czechoslovakia; Seine/France, Tula/ USSR....kieserite, ka1mte. Found in: Lower Saxony, Baden, eastern Harz mountains/Germany; Galicia/Poland; Urals/USSR;... Q) Hattorf, Philippsthal , Hesse/Germany ~ Robling, Halle/Germany l :½ white and colorless 3 ◄ Streak
 
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