The information on this page is a summary description.
The full formal description is available here: Lanklaar Formation
Abbreviation | Lk |
Parent unit | Meuse Group |
Child units | |
Lithological description | A series of low terrace gravels in the valley bottom, gravel base below the modern alluvial plain. Mostly fine gravel with sand lenses. Considerably impoverished Meuse by loss of its Vosges headwaters. A number of allostratigraphic Members are distinguished. |
Age | From Middle Pleistocene, Upper Saalian to Upper Pleistocene, Late Weichselian |
Thickness | |
Area of occurrence | Lower Meuse Valley. |
Type locality | Lower Meuse valley, Lanklaar area. |
Alternative names | |
Authors | Gullentops, F., Bogemans, F., De Moor, G., Paulissen, E. & Pissart, A. |
Date | 01/01/2001 |
Cite as | Gullentops, F., Bogemans, F., De Moor, G., Paulissen, E. & Pissart, A., 2001. The Lanklaar Formation, 01/01/2001. National Commission for Stratigraphy Belgium. http://ncs.naturalsciences.be/lithostratigraphy/Lanklaar-Formation |