The information on this page is a summary description.
The full formal description is available here: Liège Formation
| Abbreviation | Lg |
| Parent unit | Meuse Group |
| Child units | |
| Lithological description | Highest gravel reach, on or just incised in the Tertiary peneplain, weathered into red-yellow podzolic subtropical soils. It comprises the Trainée Mosane from Namur to Liège, consisting of well rounded quartz with silicified ooliths. The Meuse had still an important drainage area in the Paris Basin with a delta fan in the Lower Rhine embayment. The Formation represents the coarse proximal Meuse part of the West European “Kiezelooliet Group”. |
| Age | Miocene to Middle Pliocene, no biostratigraphical elements |
| Thickness | |
| Area of occurrence | Lower Meuse Valley. |
| Type locality | Bouge quarry, laying on marine Oligocene sands. |
| 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 Liège Formation, 01/01/2001. National Commission for Stratigraphy Belgium. http://ncs.naturalsciences.be/lithostratigraphy/Liege-Formation |
