“…In Bernburg, biolaminites vary in the carbonate particle sizes up to sand size, with carbonate sand material consisting of thin, intercalated, ooid layers, demonstrating a close relationship between the tidal flats and the extensive, shallow-marine sand-bar deposits that formed in the central basin of the Lower Muschelkalk in the Berlin area [82]. This carbonate sand was transported during times of flood and was deposited on the tidal flats; however, such carbonate sand layers are absent further to the west, as this area was too far away from the shallow submarine sand bars at the time of deposition [15,75].…”