1. Vegetable mould.
2. Limestone distinctly stratified, frequently of a yellowish colour, called lagerhafter kalkstein.
3. Clay, sometimes red, sometimes blue, sometimes a mixture of red, blue, and yellow.
4. The cellular limestone (rauhkalk). This rock differs both in nature and position from the rock of the same name at Mansfeldt.
5. Clay, usually red, containing veins of white gypsum, and fine crystals of selenite.
6. Massive gypsum of recent formation.
7. Fetid limestone, compact and blackish gray, or cellular and yellowish gray.
8. Pulverulent limestone, with solid fragments interspersed.
9. Compact marl-limestone, or zechstein, which changes from a brownish colour above to a blackish schist below, as it comes nearer the cupreous schist, which seems to form a part of it.
10. Cupreous schist (kuperschiefer), of which the bottom portion, from 4 to 6 inches thick, is that selected for metallurgic operations. Beneath it, is found the usual wall or bed of sandstone. A vein of cobalt ore a, which is rich only in the grayish-white sandstone (weisse liegende), traverses and deranges all the beds wherever it comes.