Editing Thuringian Forest (section)

=== Little Thuringian Forest ===

The [[Little Thuringian Forest]] (German: ''Kleiner Thüringer Wald'') is a narrow horst south of [[Suhl]] and northwest of [[Schleusingen]], northwest of Schleuse river, embedded in the [[Triassic]] foothills of Southern Thuringia. It is oriented roughly parallel to the Thuringian Forest and, while a separate structure, is geologically very similar to the latter, as it consists of the same rock types such as granite, [[hornfels]], porphyrites, Rotliegend and Zechstein sediments, and thus forms part of the [[Variscan chain]].<ref>{{cite book | author = Martin Meschede | chapter = Deutschland im Perm und Mesozoikum | title = Geologie Deutschlands | pages = 103–159 | date = 24 March 2015 | publisher = Springer | location = Berlin and Heidelberg| bibcode = 2015gede.book.....M }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | author = Maximilian Tornow | title = Die Geologie des Kleinen Thüringer Waldes | publisher = Schade | year = 1907}}</ref> It is about {{convert|11|km|abbr=on}} long and {{convert|1|km|abbr=on}} to {{convert|2|km|abbr=on}} wide, with an average altitude of 460 m. Mining for [[fluorite]], [[baryte]], and [[limonite]] has been attempted there on several occasions, but was given up as unprofitable due to difficult drainage. Large baryte deposits prospected in the 1950s have remained untouched.