| 1. | Outcropping Zechstein rocks are limited to the edges of basement uplifts.
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| 2. | The Magnesian Limestone is now incorporated within the Zechstein Group.
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| 3. | NAM found the Netherlands'first gas in Zechstein carbonates at Coevorden in 1948.
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| 4. | This Zechstein stage also comprises dolomites and limestones.
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| 5. | Later, during the Zechstein and Muschelkalk the region was largely flooded by the sea.
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| 6. | The Capitanian stage was part of the time in which the Zechstein was deposited in Europe.
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| 7. | During the Zechstein the sea ingressed from the Arctic Ocean to the north into the basin.
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| 8. | Furthermore, in the south near Heidelberg, there is still zechstein under the Early Triassic deposits.
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| 9. | It is the type locality for the Raisby Formation, a carbonate unit of the English Zechstein sequence.
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| 10. | In Dutch lithostratigraphy, the Rotliegend lies on top of the late Carboniferous Limburg Group and below the Zechstein Group.
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