The information on this page is a summary description.
The full formal description is available here: Eke Member
| Abbreviation | ElE |
| Parent unit | Eeklo Formation |
| Child units | |
| Lithological description | This unit is dominantly sandy with clayey and loamy layers or gravel laminae, sometimes with peaty intercalations. Within the sand clay pebbles, vegetation remains, reworked tertiary shells and Quaternary fresh water and land shells are present. It shows several levels with ice- and frost wedges. Upward the unit evolves into fine sand deposited in shallow gullies or becomes loamy, with a thickness mostly limited to 3m. (Sifferdok Bed, Tavernier & De Moor, 1974). |
| Age | Upper Pleistocene, Weichselian. |
| Thickness | From 5 to 20m. |
| Area of occurrence | Schelde basin. |
| Type locality | Eke (De Moor, 1974), Zemst – Bos van Aa (Bogemans, 1993 – Lembeke Member). |
| 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 Eke Member, 01/01/2001. National Commission for Stratigraphy Belgium. http://ncs.naturalsciences.be/lithostratigraphy/Eke-Member |
