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Clausen, Claus-Dieter; Leuteritz, Klaus (1989): Distribution, genesis and age of the Schlagwasser breccia (Warstein anticline, Rhenish massif) [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.854427, Supplement to: Clausen, C-D; Leuteritz, K (1989): Verbreitung, Entstehung und Alter der Schlagwasserbreccie (Warsteiner Sattel, Rheinisches Schiefergebirge). Fortschritte in der Geologie von Rheinland und Westfalen, 35, 261-308, hdl:10013/epic.46073.d003

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Abstract:
The name "Schlagwasser breccia" is a synopsis of several debris flows in the Warstein area, which can be derived from the Warstein carbonate platform and the Scharfenberg reef. Though only locally developed, the breccia is important for the understanding of paleogeography and sedimentology in the Eastern Sauerland. Considering this breccia some gravitational-resedimentary slide movements between a high, consisting of reef carbonates, and a basin with flinz beds can be pointed out.
From the uppermost Middle Devonian to the lowermost Lower Carboniferous several slides yielded the sedimentary components building up the 30 to 50 m thick polymict breccia. Some breccias were redeposited repeatedly as can be verified by different conodont maxima in single samples.
Supplying area was the western part of the Warstein high, from which the slide masses glided off to the East and Southeast, more seldom to the West and Westsouthwest. All conodont zones from the upper Middle Devonian up to the lowermost Carboniferous could be identified in the Schlagwasser breccia. Therefore, an uninterrupted continuous sedimentation must have been prevalent in the supplying area; today this area nearly is denuded of flinz beds and cephalopod limestones.
The slide masses spread transgressively to the East up to a substratum consisting of different units as massive limestone, flinz beds and cephalopod limestone; they are overlapped by Hangenberg beds, alum schists and siliceous rocks of the Lower Carboniferous. Parts of the substratum were transported during the progress of the slide masses. Proximal and distal parts of the flow masses can be distinguished by the diameter of the pebbles. Graded bedding and banking structures are marked only rarely. Way of transport was up to 3 km. Differently aged slide masses do not always overlap, but are placed side by side, too. Usually the slide masses do not spread out upon a greater area during sedimentation, but form closely limited debris flows.
Synsedimentary fracturing and tilting of the reef platform, epirogenetic movements and seaquakes caused the slides. The entire formation period of the breccia includes about 20 millions of years. The longevity of the events points to solid paleomorphological situations around the eastern margin of the carbonate platform.
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Amirie, Ghullam Hussein Bares; Clausen, Claus-Dieter; Friman, Lars; Korn, Dieter; Leuteritz, Klaus; Rescher, Konrad; Stritzke, Rüdiger; Wilder, Heinz; Ziegler, Willi (1989): Das Oberdevon des Rheinischen Schiefergebirges - Datierung und Grenzziehung als Grundlage für Fazies und Paläogeographie. Fortschritte in der Geologie von Rheinland und Westfalen, 35, 413 pp, hdl:10013/epic.46073.d001
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  1. Clausen, C-D; Leuteritz, K (1989): (Table 5) Distribution and abundance of conodonts of the Schlagwasser breccia at profile Campingplatz Kallenhardt. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.854425
  2. Clausen, C-D; Leuteritz, K (1989): (Table 4) Distribution and abundance of conodonts of the Schlagwasser breccia at profile Kallenhardt Ortsausgang. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.854424
  3. Clausen, C-D; Leuteritz, K (1989): (Table 6) Distribution and abundance of conodonts of the Schlagwasser breccia at profile Steinbruch am Hessenkamp. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.854426
  4. Clausen, C-D; Leuteritz, K (1989): (Table 1) Distribution and abundance of conodonts of the Schlagwasser breccia at profile Steinbruch Cramer. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.854420
  5. Clausen, C-D; Leuteritz, K (1989): (Table 2) Distribution and abundance of conodonts of the Schlagwasser breccia at profile Suttroper Weg. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.854421
  6. Clausen, C-D; Leuteritz, K (1989): (Table 3) Distribution and abundance of conodonts of the Schlagwasser breccia at profile Steinbruch Weiken and Steinbruch Brühne. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.854423