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248 Permo-Triassic Buildups and Late Triassic Ecologic Reefs

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Fig.VIII-19. Sedimentological characteristics of the Hohe GoB reef complex according to
Zankl (1969). From Zankl (1971, Fig. 5)

addition, in protected Kossen shale basins of Rhaetic age, large bioherms exist
which are capped by reefoid organisms and surrounded by shale. These developed
considerable sea-floor relief late in their growth. The Rotelwand and Adnet car-
bonate buildups may have been more than a 100 m high.