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TheMainz Basin(German:Mainzer Becken) orRhine-Main Basin[1]is the name given to aCenozoicmarine basinthat covered the area of the present-day region ofRhenish Hessein Germany about 38 to 12 million years ago (38 - 12mya). The Mainz Basin was a bay or sea inlet, that for a short time in thePalaeogeneperiod connected the thenNorth Sea(part of the gradually widening North Atlantic during the Palaeogene) with theParatethys Sea(part of the shrinkingTethys Ocean).
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edit- ^Elkins, T H (1972).Germany(3rd ed.). London: Chatto & Windus, 1972, p. 218.ASINB0011Z9KJA.
References
edit- Falke:Geologischer Führer von Rheinhessen.1960
- Klaus Hang:Das Rheinhessische Hügelland für Naturfreunde.In: Kosmos 1974
- E. Probst:Deutschland in der Urzeit.München, 1986
- D. Vogellehner:Paläontologie.Freiburg, 1987
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