The information on this page is a summary description. The full formal description is available here: Bellegem Formation Abbreviation BLG Parent unit Child units Lithological description Dark to medium grey mostly shale and mudstone (compact bedded), also siltstone and fine sandstone (laminated or obliquely stratified), deposited as distal turbidites and less frequently as laminated hemipelagites;...
The information on this page is a summary description. The full formal description is available here: Rekkem Formation Abbreviation REK Parent unit Child units Lithological description Dark and medium grey, silty and clayey shale, with no sandstone present; compact, laminated or obliquely stratified; deposited as distal turbidites; 82% of the sequences are Tde, with a...
The information on this page is a summary description. The full formal description is available here: Huy Formation Abbreviation HUY Parent unit Child units Lithological description Black, silky, finely micaceous shale, with cone-in-cone structures and white-veined blackish quartzite beds (Malaise, 1900); fine-grained and slightly micaceous black slate or shale (Martin, 1969a); dark or greyish black...
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)...
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...
The information on this page is a summary description. The full formal description is available here: Jodoigne Formation Abbreviation JOD Parent unit Child units Lithological description Four different lithostratigraphic units can be distinguished (Herbosch et al., 2008): – the Maka unit consists of an alternation of massive, pale-grey to grey quartzite and pyritic black shale,...
The information on this page is a summary description. The full formal description is available here: Mousty Formation Abbreviation MST Parent unit Child units Lithological description Mainly slate (mudstone to siltstone) of grey-blue to grey-black colour, often with graphite and pyrite (black shale facies). Massive bedded or finely laminated with rhythmic variations in clay and...
The information on this page is a summary description. The full formal description is available here: Abbaye de Villers Formation Abbreviation ADV Parent unit Child units Lithological description Grey or dark grey fine-grained sandstone to mudstone, with an irregular, lenticular cm-scale lamination. Characteristically, the fine-grained sandstone laminae have rather diffuse limits. Frequent and abundant bioturbation,...
The information on this page is a summary description. The full formal description is available here: Tribotte Formation Abbreviation TRO Parent unit Child units Lithological description In the Dyle basin, this formation shows three main lithofacies easily recognisable in the field. The lower third contains brownish grey, clayey fine sandstone and siltstone with coarse laminations...
The information on this page is a summary description. The full formal description is available here: Rigenée Formation Abbreviation RIG Parent unit Child units Lithological description Dark grey to bluish grey slate (mudstone and siltstone), vaguely or coarsely laminated or without any stratification, bearing locally pyrite. This formation was never studied in detail for lithology...
