Geological Map of the Federal Republic of Germany 1:200,000 (GÜK200) — CC 3118 Hamburg — West

Blatt Hamburg-West is taken entirely by the North German Lowlands, with the Lüneburg Heath being cut in the southeast of the map section. The morphology of the northern German lowlands is characterised by glacial influence. Since the area has been covered several times by Scandinavian inland ice, the landscape is rich in shape. Among the glacial deposits of the Elster, Saale and Vistula cold seasons are loam/mergel of the base moraine, glacial basin sludge, fluviatile and glazifluviatile sands and gravel as well as Aeolian flight sands. In the distribution of the sediments in the map section, the accumulated appearance of elsterglazial basin mud in the northwest and the dominance of glazifluviatil deposits of the Drenthe-stadial in the Lüneburg Heath are noticeable. The glacial relics are partly superimposed by holocene sediments, such as fluviatile sands and gravel or peat of the moorlands. Large deposits of perimarin clay also characterise the Old Land south of the Elbe (north-east corner of the map sheet). Prequarter subsurface does not come to light due to the enormous thickness of the quaternary top layer. In the geological section that crosses the map sheet from south to north, the thickness of the Cenozoic sediments (up to 3 000 m depth) becomes clear. In addition, the profile shows the penetration of Zechstein salts into the salt sticks of Eitzendorf, Verden, Wedehof, Rotenburg, Scheeßel, Volkensen, Harsefeld and Stade. The location and position of the salt structures are also marked by name in the geological map.