Permian Lower, Germany

Rotliegendes, n. (Geol.) a system of sandstones, shales and conglomerates of the lower Permian of Germany. 

Grice K., Schaeffer P., Schwark L., and Maxwell J. R. (1996b) Molecular indicators of palaeoenvironmental conditions in an immature Permian shale (Kuperschiefer, Lower Rhine Basin, north-west Germany) from free and S-bound hpids. 

One well-known example is the Lower Permian Karniowice travertine of Poland, where a rich fossil flora and fauna has been uncovered (Szulc and Cwizewicz, 1989). There is evidence that tufas date back to at least the Tertiary within the Barkly karst area of Queensland, Australia (Carthew et al., 2003b), and they have also been recorded in the Eocene Chadron Formation in South Dakota (Evans, 1999), the middle Miocene Barstow Formation in the Mojave Desert of California, USA (Becker et ah, 2001), and in the Miocene Ries crater basin in Germany (Pache et ah, 2001). 

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