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F16. 56,—GErMAN PorasH FIELDS. 
Diagrammatic section across the German potash fields (after Everding), from the northern edge of the Harz Mountains 
(N.H.) across the salt dome of Aschersleben (A), and the faulted dome of Stassfurt-Egeln (E). 
7 
Kainozoic. 
Cretaceous. 
Keuper—upper Trias. Muschelkalk—middle Trias. 
Bunter sandstones—lower Trias. Upper Zechstein—~upper Permian. 
Main bed of anhydrite. 
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Potash salts with their cover of clay. 
Younger primary rock-salt. 
Secondary rockesalt, 
Older primary rock-salt. 
Low mid. Zechstein—upper Permian, Rothliegende—lower Permian, 
and upper Carboniferous. 
Pre-Carboniferous and culm, 
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