Episode 500
Permian Basin (Europe)
Sun, 2018-Sep-16 00:55 UTC
Length - 1:43
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Welcome to random Wiki of the Day where we read the summary of a random Wikipedia page every day.
The random article for Sunday, 16 September 2018 is Permian Basin (Europe).
The European Permian Basin is a thick sequence of sedimentary rocks deposited in a large sedimentary basin during the Permian period (from 298.9 to 251.902 million years ago) in Northern Europe. The basin underlies northern Poland, northern Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, a significant portion of the North Sea to the east coast of Engliand and up to Scotland.
A major natural gas discovery was made in the Rotliegend Formation at Slochteren, Netherlands in 1959. The Rotliegend is the lower portion of the Permian sequence and consists of over 600 metres (2,000 ft) of sandstones and evaporites. It is overlain by 1,000-metre (3,300 ft) thick sequence of evaporites known as the Zechstein Formation.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:55 UTC on Sunday, 16 September 2018.
For the full current version of the article, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian_Basin_%28Europe%29.
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