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in northeastern France. The land under which these beds lie is generally very well drained, creating heathlike conditions. Because of the drainage, the soil tends to be of low fertility. A notable area in Britain that has these characteristics is
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areas traditionally make use of the building material for representative and public buildings, among them the historically important
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pebbles, to have resulted from prolonged transportation in a large and turbulent river, resulting in powerful abrasion.
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constructed of reddish sandstone, throughout the relevant areas of Europe (e.g. Germany, Luxembourg, Switzerland,
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containing rounded pebbles. They are thought to be alluvial deposits and, judging from the rounding of the mainly
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to reddish buntsandstein is marked clearly by an eroded gap. The architecture of the surrounding former
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The sandstone can be hard enough for building, yet easy enough to "work", resulting in
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Hanschke, Julian: Schloss Heidelberg. Baugeschichte (Karlsruhe 2015) (German)
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by reworking and southward transportation of older deposits by ice flows.
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mentioned in many local nature guides, where the succession from greyish
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are thought to have been transported in this way northwards from
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Major lithostratigraphic units of northwest Europe with the
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in Warwickshire, are thought to have arisen during the
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