Septarian nodule
by Konstantinos Kourtidis, Demokritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece
Septarian concretions or septarian nodules, are concretions containing angular cavities or cracks, which are called "septaria". The word comes from the Latin word septum, "partition". This was found in Bachhausen and is exhibited in the Museum Reich der Kristalle in Munich.
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- Exact location (11.3534 E, 47.9676 N)
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