The bulging of the saddle occurred as a result of the movement of Malm Salt ( not Zechstein Salt ) deep underground that forced the overlying, younger layers of solid rock upwards.
22.
These are the Rotliegend, Zechstein ( both of Permian age ), Buntsandstein, Muschelkalk, Keuper ( Triassic in age ), ICS does not contain any of these names any longer.
23.
The nature park covers parts of the southern foothills of the Lower Harz, the gypsum karst landscape of the adjacent Zechstein belt and the transition region with the North Thuringian bunter sandstone country.
24.
The Taognathus lived in South Africa during the Tatarian Age, Lopingian Subepoch, Zechstein Epoch, in the Late Permian, and was named by Scottish South African doctor and paleontologist Robert Broom in 1911.
25.
The cutting exposes a section of late Permian Ford Formation ( Zechstein ) dolomite in which the transition from the flat to the crest of the shelf-edge of an ancient reef is clearly visible.
26.
Just above the base of the Zechstein formation is a fairly thin layer of shale, or slate, where it has been metamorphized, known as the " kupferschiefer " for its high copper content.
27.
At that time the edges of the Rhine Graben were uplifted and the layers of bunter sandstone and, in places also older rocks ( Zechstein, Rotliegendes ) were exposed after the overlying rock was eroded away.
28.
He also noted the large labyrinthodonts of the Keuper ( a unit of rocks that dates to the Late Triassic ) were younger than more advanced reptiles in the Magnesian and Zechstein, which are Late Permian in age.
29.
Under the serial number 340 were included the open high plateaus made of Zechstein and Bunter sandstone of the Waldeck Plain ( 340 1 ) and the adjacent thickly wooded Bunter sandstone ridge of the Waldeck Forest ( 340 2 ).
30.
It is oriented roughly parallel to the Thuringian Forest and, while a separate structure, is geologically very similar to the latter, as it consists of the same rock types such as granite, hornfels, porphyrites, Rotliegend and Zechstein sediments, and thus forms part of the Variscan chain.
