The information on this page is a summary description.
The full formal description is available here: Latinne Formation
Abbreviation
LAT
Parent unit
Child units
Lithological description
Dark greenish grey or medium to dark grey, mudslate, siltslate and fine siltstone, quartzic sometimes calcareous; Tde sequences thin to medium thick (average thickness of at least 20 cycles: 11-19 cm); Tcde sequences very often present (38-61% of all sequences) with about the same average thickness approaching that of Tde sequences (on average 20% thicker); with thin c-divisions (0.5 to 6 cm); lower and upper boundary unknown; contact via fault with supposedly covering Hosdin Fm.
Age
Telychian, upper Llandovery based on chitinozoan assemblage with Conochitina vitrea (= Conochitina sp. A in Verniers, 1982).
Thickness
Recorded sections: 22.6 m, outcropping sections: 27.6 m, formation: estimated at least 180 m.
Area of occurrence
Until now only observed in the Mehaigne valley.
Type locality
Village Latinne, sections in the talus of the road, west of the small hamlet Les Ruelles; outcrops GH-3 and GH-9 in Verniers 1983.
Alternative names
Authors
Verniers, J., Herbosch, A., Vanguestaine, M., Geukes, F., Delcambre, B., Pingot, J.-L., Belanger, I., Hennebert, M., Debacker, T., Sintubin, M. & De Vos, W.
Date
01/01/2001
Cite as
Verniers, J., Herbosch, A., Vanguestaine, M., Geukes, F., Delcambre, B., Pingot, J.-L., Belanger, I., Hennebert, M., Debacker, T., Sintubin, M. & De Vos, W., 2001. The Latinne Formation, 01/01/2001. National Commission for Stratigraphy Belgium. https://ncs.naturalsciences.be/lithostratigraphy/Latinne-Formation
