Kössen Formation
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k-ssen-formation-243-2490055
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Kössen Formation
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The Kössen Formation is a Late Triassic (Rhaetian-age) geological formation in the Northern Calcareous Alps of Austria and Germany, in the Tiroler-Lech Nature Park. During the Late Triassic, the area now occupied by the Northern Calcareous Alps was instead a long, passive coastline at the western tip of the Neotethys Ocean. The environment was initially dominated by a wide and shallow carbonate platform within a lagoon between the shore and a string of reefs. This carbonate platform is nowadays
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Late Triassic geological formation in the Northern Calcareous Alps
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6ssen_Formation
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2023-12-24T22:19:36Z
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