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Chapter 6 Special Depositional Environments
BARRIER
,300km
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,- ~ \
SOUTHERN ZECHSTEINI\
BASIN
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. ; ; _--' 1
'.- TEMPORARY
CONNECTION
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TO S. OCEAN ?
o
ANHYDRITE
PLATFORM
(
ANHYDRITE"
LITORAL
.,.:.....j,~- CARBONATE
,100 km,
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Fig. 6.10. a Configuration of Zechstein Basin in central and northern Europe with main barrier to the
north. (After Peryt 1987a, slightly modified after
Ziegler 1988). b Southern central part of Zechstein
Basin demonstrating the irregular topography and
evaporite distribution in marginal parts of the basin,
including thick halite deposition, during the first
evaporite cycle, Z 1. (After Richter-Bernburg 1985)