The brown coal excavators tirelessly carve through the landscape around the power plant in Weisweiler (left in the image) to feed it with coal.

The brown coal excavators tirelessly carve through the landscape around the power plant in Weisweiler (left in the image) to feed it with coal. In the picture, you can clearly see the individual soil layers: at the top, the fertile light brown loess soil, below that a dark brown clay layer, lighter sand, and then the first brown coal layer. Seen on 09.08.2011 in the Rhenish brown coal mining area near Inden. There is a viewpoint there from which you can look into the huge pit where the brown coal is being mined.

Mario Schürholz 14.08.2011, 914 Views, 0 Comments * automatically translated