Planicosta sandstone

The Planicosta sandstone occurs at Lemgo in North Rhine-Westphalia to a very small extent, which did not play a major role in the extraction of ashlar. At Hessisch-Oldendorf in Lower Saxony there is a notable occurrence in a sandstone layer of the Lias up to 3 meters thick , which is lenticular. He had some regional importance as a tool and broken stone. This sandstone is gray-brown, fine-grained and contains mica . The former mining sites have long been abandoned and it was of little and only regional importance.

literature

Otto Sickenberg: stones and earth. The deposits and their management. Geology and Deposits of Lower Saxony, 5th vol. Dorn-Verlag, Bremen, Horn 1951, pp. 168f.