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The formation was well studied by the miners of that country a century ago as containing a thin band of dark-coloured cupriferous shale, characterised at Mansfield in Thuringia by numerous fossil fish. To the limestone they gave the name of Zechstein, and to the marl-slate that of Mergel-schiefer or Kupfer- schiefer.
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