Guides: Dr. Henning Zellmer (Geopark Harz . Braunschweiger Land . Ostfalen) & Dr. Volker Wilde (Geopark Harz . Braunschweiger Land . Ostfalen / Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum Frankfurt am Main)

Date & Time: Saturday, September 13

9 -18 h

Price: 60 €

Including: Transport by coach/minibus from and to Göttingen, printed field trip guide, packed lunch and entrance to “Burg Lichtenberg” (viewpoint)

Personal requirements: Field boots and water-proof clothing, moderate personal fitness for intermediate walks and a helmet for the quarry (Steinbruch Baddeckenstedt) >br>

The northwestern part of the Geopark Harz - Braunschweiger Land - Ostfalen is dominated by Mesozoic sedimentary rocks which are exposed in complicated structures of halokinetic origin. The fieldtrip is designed to show some selected outcrops of typical strata and geomorphological characters of the area.Region: Lichtenberge – Mittleres Innerstetal – Hainberg – Östlicher Hildesheimer Wald-Sattel in den Landkreisen Hildesheim und Wolfenbüttel

Stations:

1. Upright Middle Triassic Lower Muschelkalk at Grasdorf

2. Disused Oil-rigs at Hohenassel

3. Historic quarry in Lower Triassic oolites ("Rogenstein")

4. Middle Triassic bioclastic Upper Muschelkalk near Lichtenberg Castle

5. Lichtenberg Castle (lookout)

6. Baddeckenstedt Quarry (Upper Cretaceous, Cenomanian)

7. Hubertus-chapel at the Jägerhaus (late Lower Cretaceous Hils-Sandstone)

8. Quarry at the Derneburg burial pyramid (uppermost Triassic sandstone)

9. Old quarry at Heersum (Type locality of the Heersum Formation, Oxfordian)