We are celebrating the Fall of the Berlin Wall, I guess 30 yrs ago today (November 9th). I had my own little experience with the "Berlin Wall" in 1969 though where I was, it wasn't a wall but a tall wire fence guarded by observation towers (perhaps 30 ft tall) occupied by soldiers with some sort of machine guns.
A small group of us were examining an exposure of the thin copper-bearing formation of the Kupferschiefer (Copper Slate) in rural West Germany. It was a bit unnerving knowing that there were armed men in the towers observing us and wondering what we were doing (digging a tunnel?), but perhaps many people came to this location to study the geology.
At any rate after some time, I took some samples and we left without incident except maybe frayed nerves.
* http://stopcontinentaldrift.blogspot.com/search?q=Berlin+Wall
** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kupferschiefer
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