List of geotopes in Schweinfurt

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This list the geotopes of the Lower Franconian city ​​of Schweinfurt in Bavaria . The list contains the official names and numbers of the Bavarian State Office for the Environment (LfU) as well as their geographical location. This list may not be complete. Around 3,400 geotopes (as of March 2020) are recorded in the Bavarian geotope register. The LfU does not consider some geotopes suitable for publication on the Internet. For example, some objects are not safely accessible or may only be entered to a limited extent for other reasons.

Surname image Geotope ID Municipality / location Geological unit of space description Area m² / extension m geology Digestion type value Protection status comment
Quarry in the Höllental near Schweinfurt 662A001 Schweinfurt
position 		Eastern Franconian Plates In this old quarry in Höllental, a profile in the uppermost shell limestone at the level of the upper Terebratelbank and the ostracod clay above it is exposed. The information is the type locality of the mussel crab Euestheria franconica Reible 1962, which gives the biostratigraphic Euestheria franconica zone its name. Type: type locality, animal fossils, layer sequence
Type: claystone, marlstone, limestone 		Quarry especially valuable Landscape protection area

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  1. ↑ Data source: Bavarian State Office for the Environment, www.lfu.bayern.de, Geotoprecherche (accessed on September 16, 2017)