The information on this page is a summary description.
The full formal description is available here: Keuper Formation
| Abbreviation | |
| Parent unit | Altena Group |
| Child units | |
| Lithological description | Restricted lagoonal deposit, composed of variegated mudstone alternating with clayey dolomites, with anhydrite and gypsum beds and nodules; base more sandy. Carbonates as in the Muschelkalk, are almost completely absent. Top: disconformably covered by Steen Formation; base: overlying Muschelkalk Formation. |
| Age | Middle (- Upper?) Triassic, Ladinian (- Norian?). |
| Thickness | 86 m. |
| Area of occurrence | Roer Valley Graben ; removed by erosion from Campine Basin. |
| Type locality | Parastratotype in Belgium: well KB99 Neeroeteren. |
| Alternative names | |
| Authors | Dusar, M., Langenaeker, V. & Wouters, L. |
| Date | 01/01/2001 |
| Cite as | Dusar, M., Langenaeker, V. & Wouters, L., 2001. The Keuper Formation, 01/01/2001. National Commission for Stratigraphy Belgium. http://ncs.naturalsciences.be/lithostratigraphy/Keuper-Formation |
