Category

LithoLowerPaleozoic

Rocher de l’Uf Formation

The information on this page is a summary description. The full formal description is available here: Rocher de l’Uf Formation Abbreviation RUF Parent unit Revin Group Child units Lithological description Formation subdivided into two members. The unnamed lower member – (old: Rv1a) is made of an alternation of quartzite and slate beds up to 30...

Moncheret Formation

The information on this page is a summary description. The full formal description is available here: Moncheret Formation Abbreviation MCH Parent unit Child units Lithological description Dark green, silty shale with either metric dark sandstone beds, divided in lenticular layers, or centimetric to decimetric lenses of the same dark sandstone. The shale is often punctuated...

La Roche à 7 Heures Formation

The information on this page is a summary description. The full formal description is available here: La Roche à 7 Heures Formation Abbreviation RSH Parent unit Revin Group Child units Lithological description Formation subdivided into two members. The unnamed lower member – (old: Rv2a) has at the base thick quartzite beds; the thickness of the...

Hour Formation

The information on this page is a summary description. The full formal description is available here: Hour Formation Abbreviation HUR Parent unit Deville Group Child units Lithological description Thick beds of light coloured to light greenish quartzite and green slate. The white sandstone is locally altered into a reddened sandstone. Age Due to the absence...

Anchamps Formation

The information on this page is a summary description. The full formal description is available here: Anchamps Formation Abbreviation ANC Parent unit Revin Group Child units Lithological description Formation subdivided into three members: the unnamed lower member (old: Rv3a) black slate, slightly micaceous with a few thin black quartzite beds; the Crapaude-Pierre Member (CRP, old:...

Sart-Bernard Formation

The information on this page is a summary description. The full formal description is available here: Sart-Bernard Formation Abbreviation SN Parent unit Child units Lithological description Micaceous and sandy shale (Michot, 1957). Age The restudied graptolite assemblage points to a Didymograptus bifidus biozone, Llanvirn (Bulman, 1950); this is not accepted by Servais and Maletz (1992)...

Vitrival-Bruyère Formation

The information on this page is a summary description. The full formal description is available here: Vitrival-Bruyère Formation Abbreviation VTB Parent unit Child units Lithological description Blackish, silky and fine micaceous shale with quartzite intercalations and graptolites (Maillieux, 1926a); micaceous pelitic unit (Michot, 1928); the higher part contains clayey quartzitic sandstone in thick beds, covering...

Hosdin Formation

The information on this page is a summary description. The full formal description is available here: Hosdin Formation Abbreviation HOS Parent unit Child units Lithological description Dark to medium grey mudslate, siltslate, siltstone and fine sandstone with quartzic pelite in the e-division; Tde sequences are often present (74%) and medium thick (17 cm on average);...

Basse-aux-Canes Formation

The information on this page is a summary description. The full formal description is available here: Basse-aux-Canes Formation Abbreviation BCN Parent unit Child units Lithological description Greenish grey or dark grey silty shale, often sandy siltstones, with irregular jointing. White mica often present. The siltstones weather with dark or rusty patches of iron and manganese...

Fallais Formation

The information on this page is a summary description. The full formal description is available here: Fallais Formation Abbreviation FLL Parent unit Child units Lithological description Unit of light green, olive-greenish grey, or light grey chloritic mudslate and mudstone, with rare siltstone and fine sandstone beds from distal turbiditic origin, mostly without laminated hemipelagite; in...
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