The information on this page is a summary description. The full formal description is available here: Pouru-au-Bois Formation Abbreviation PAB Parent unit Child units Lithological description Subdivided into three members: the unnamed lower member (old: Rv5a): black slate, easily affected by microfolds (Beugnies, 1960); the unnamed middle member (old: Rv5b): some lenticular grey quartzite beds...
The information on this page is a summary description. The full formal description is available here: Génicot Formation Abbreviation GNC Parent unit Child units Lithological description Black shale, dark grey laminated siltstone and often thin beds of medium grey sandstone. Occasionally a conglomeratic sandstone bed occurs. Sometimes dark-coloured microbioturbations a few mm long (Chondrites sp.?)...
The information on this page is a summary description. The full formal description is available here: Ottré Formation Abbreviation OTT Parent unit Salm Group Child units Lithological description Purplish slate and silty slate (called “quartzophyllade” in the older literature) subdivided into 3 members. The Meuville Mbr (MEU, old: Sm2a), in the north: red or...
The information on this page is a summary description. The full formal description is available here: Serpont Formation Abbreviation SRP Parent unit Child units Lithological description Black coarse-grained slate and silty slate (called “quartzophyllade” in the older literature), very rich in ilmenite and chloritoid crystals (small to 4 mm in size); the base of the...
The information on this page is a summary description. The full formal description is available here: Criptia Group Abbreviation CRI Parent unit Child units Lithological description A group for a thick unit of shale and silty shale, homogeneous with various colours (greenish, grey, ochre) and a stratification difficult to distinguish. In the group a green...
The information on this page is a summary description. The full formal description is available here: Bihain Formation Abbreviation BIH Parent unit Salm Group Child units Lithological description Black silty slate (called “quartzophyllade” in the older literature) and greenish sandstone. The Salm-Château Mbr (SCH, old: Sm3b): cleaved “quartzophyllade”, with thick bands of slates, often...
The information on this page is a summary description. The full formal description is available here: Warinsart Formation Abbreviation WAS Parent unit Child units Lithological description Subdivided into three members: the unnamed lower member (old: Rv5a): black fine-grained slate; the unnamed middle member (old: Rv5b): some thick bedded grey quartzite beds; the unnamed upper member...
The information on this page is a summary description. The full formal description is available here: Dave Formation Abbreviation DAV Parent unit Child units Lithological description In the type area: bluish black shale, often fine micaceous or sandy, locally calcareous; around Fosses and Tihange black shale and mudstone with thin dark micaceous siltstone or sandstone...
The information on this page is a summary description. The full formal description is available here: Petites Tailles Formation Abbreviation PET Parent unit Salm Group Child units Lithological description Whitish quartzitic sandstone, often breccia, compact bedded chloritic slate and conglomeratic sandstone with greenish shale pebbles. Age Without macrofossils and only long-ranging acritarchs present (Vanguestaine, unpublished);...
The information on this page is a summary description. The full formal description is available here: Naninne Formation Abbreviation NAN Parent unit Child units Lithological description Laminated mudstone, generally calcareous, with some micaceous siltstone or fine sandstone intercalations (Michot, 1954; Martin, 1969a); laminated fine sandy or silty shale, blue-grey, green, greenish grey or brownish grey,...
