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This was started by request] but my German is terrible and English language sources are thin so it definitely needs help StarM 05:43, 19 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Broken? Image[edit]

I'm not sure the initial image is deleted, so much as not linkable/correctly linked. If you go to de:Rieskrater-Museum you'll see it shows. I'm just not certain how to properly format a link through to the German wikipedia. I don't do much with images to know how to fix it StarM 01:22, 20 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The image wasn't on Commons, User:Dmadeo transfered it --Chris.urs-o (talk) 08:45, 20 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I didnt know how to link to the German version either, so I moved it to commons. Interesting museum. dm (talk) 20:17, 20 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! That was part of my goal in including the info about the image - someone would know what to do with it. dm, as usual, a whiz. StarM 20:57, 20 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Sources[edit]

Here are a few more sources I located in my research for anyone who wants to expand for DYK or other uses:

Flyer about the Geopark PDF - museum is included but as it's a PDF google translate isn't a help
- It's short anyway, I think that german national geoparks are just political entities for the geotourism.
Nordlingen official page?
- Overview of both references: An impact from a 1 km diameter stony meteorite at c. 20 km/s gave origin to the Ries crater c. 14.5 mio. years ago. After one minute there was a 12 km diameter primary crater, data: 4,500 m (depth), 4-5 mio. bar (pressure), 10,000-30,000°C, spreading moldavite (a tektite) 200-450 km away. The meteorite and the rock below melted and evaporated. The earthquake resulted in a 25 km diameter end crater covered with a suevite deposit. The church tower is built with suevite. Another reference tells that the impact hit a local graphite deposit, so some building material in the city may contain tiny diamonds as well as coesite and stishovite. It's a special museum, as the list of confirmed impact craters is short (Impact crater#Impact craters on Earth). --Chris.urs-o (talk) 10:46, 23 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Book: Das Rieskrater-Museum Nördlingen by Michael Schieber & Gisela Pösges google books (no ebook)

Sources from de:Geopark Ries[edit]

Informationen zum Geopark Ries. Website des Geopark Ries. Abgerufen am 8. November 2010.
Geopark Ries erleben. Website des Geopark Ries. Abgerufen am 8. November 2010.
„Der Stein der Schwaben“, 60 Seiten, Wilfried Rosendahl, Michael Schieber (Hrsg.), ISBN 978-3-929981-78-0, Staatsanzeiger-Verlag Stuttgart
Sponsel, Wilfried (Hrsg.): Landkreis DONAU-RIES – Natur und Kultur einer einzigartigen Landschaft; 2008, ISBN 978-3-935438-60-5

StarM 00:45, 21 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the info on the sources, Chris.urs-o! StarM 03:48, 24 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]