For around 300 years, lignite has been mined in the Rhineland for a wide variety of purposes. While the large open-cast mines between Cologne and Aachen are spectacular, landscape-changing outcrops, the numerous coal mines on the northern slopes of the Siebengebirge have been history for almost 100 years. What remains are numerous fossils that provide a detailed history of the tertiary flora and fauna.
Speaker: Dr. Georg Heumann, collection manager of the Goldfuß Museum at the University of Bonn
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