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The Harz, Braunschweiger Land UNESCO Global Geopark is located in Northern Germany and encloses the Harz Mountains and the northern situated "Braunschweiger Land" up to the Flechtingen Ridge. The Harz Mountains are composed of Paleozoic sediments and magmatic rocks. They have been extensively documented over the past 1,000 years in historical accounts of mining and research. The Braunschweiger Land/Ostfalen area is famous for its fossil-rich sediments of the Mesozoic and Neozoic eras. A unique landscape with numerous deposits (iron ore, brown coal, salt, oil) came about here as a result of the elevation of salt structures. The "Classic Square Mile of Geology" is an area at the Northern reaches of the Harz Mountains near the town of Goslar (the Prussian Mile is equivalent to 7,53 km). The essence of this area, also called the "Golden Square Mile", consists of the close contact between the Variscan bedrock and the precipitous Mesozoic overlying rock, with many reference outcrops. This coexistence of the Palaeozoic Harz Mountains and the Mesozoic foreland describes the importance of the whole UNESCO Global Geopark perfectly.