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- proper noun geology A unit of
sedimentary rock layers of Middle to LatePermian age located in the Permian Basin (Europe).
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Carboniferous period were deposited the vast coal-measures that yield us our chief combustive material; in the Permian (or the Dyas), in fine, the new red sandstone, the Zechstein (magnesian limestone), and the Kupferschiefer (marl-slate) were formed.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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The Machnatka well is the first of a planned four well program in 2011 and 2012 to test for oil and gas in Zechstein and Carboniferous horizons in the Company's 880,000 acre Warsaw South concession.
unknown title 2011
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The shallower Zechstein reef objective in the well was not as thick as expected.
unknown title 2011
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The 'lower trias', * comprising mountain limestone, coal-measures, together with the lower new red sandstone (Todtliegende and Zechstein).
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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Porphyritic breccias which envelope the quartzose porphyries. (b) Zechstein or Alpine limestone with marly, bituminous slate, fetid limestone and variegated gypsum
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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The scientists believe that the mass extinction of species was caused with the bacteria in the gigantic shallow sea of Zechstein.
Pravda.Ru 2009
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Porphyritic breccias which envelope the quartzose porphyries. (b) Zechstein or Alpine limestone with marly, bituminous slate, fetid limestone and variegated gypsum (Productus aculeatus). (c) Variegated sandstone (bunter sandstein) with frequent beds of limestone; false oolites; the upper beds are of variegated marl, often muriatiferous (red marl, salzthon) with hydrated gypsum and fetid limestone.
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Cuvier), which excited the attention of Leibnitz, * is found in cuperiferous schist of the Zechstein of Thuringa; the Palaeosaurus and Thecodontosaurus of Bristol are, according to Murchison, of the same age.
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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