Tag / oil shale slag heap

(ISO 100, f8 @ 27mm, 1/400sec., 10:41) I went there to take images from the Messel pit, a disused quarry which was the first German natural monument declared a UNESCO world heritage site in 1995 (one of the few sites that have ever been placed on the list exclusively due to fossils). Books have been written about this site and it almost ended as a waste disposal landfill a few…