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Barkhausen, Bad Essen, Osnabrück District, Lower Saxony, Germanyi
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
52° 17' 9'' North , 8° 25' 0'' East
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
52.28611,8.41667
GeoHash:
G#: u1mcrw2ud
GRN:
N35E04
Type:
Village
Köppen climate type:
Cfb : Temperate oceanic climate
Mindat Locality ID:
297470
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:297470:8
GUID (UUID V4):
0
Other Languages:
German:
Barkhausen, Bad Essen, Landkreis Osnabrück, Niedersachsen, Deutschland


Approximately 1km down the road to Melle, across a small bridge over the Hunte river, up a steep path into the woods is an old quarry.
This particular quarry is famous for a rock wall of about 4m x 8m (discovered in 1921) where 3 rows of dinosaur (Megalosaurus and probably Dicraeosaurus) footprints, approximately 135 million years old, can be clearly seen.

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References

de.wikipedia.org (n.d.) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barkhausen_(Bad_Essen)
Wegner, T. (1926) Geologie Westfalens, 217.
Hamm, F. (1938) Einführung in die Geologie Niedersachsens, 167-168.
Friese, H. (1962) Die Dinosaurierfährten von Barkhausen im Wiehengebirge. Wittlager Heimathefte, herausgegeben von Kreis Wittlage, Heft 5.
Krul, H. (1969) Geologische zwerftochten. N.V. W.J. Thieme & Cie - Zutphen, Netherlands, 161 pp. (in Dutch).
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