The information on this page is a summary description.
The full formal description is available here: Nekum Member
| Abbreviation | |
| Parent unit | Maastricht Formation |
| Child unit | |
| Lithological description | Poorly indurated, white yellowish, coarse-grained, homogeneous “chalk”, in its lower part with few randomly distributed greyish brown flint nodules. Locally with coarse-grained fossil hash lenses and beds. |
| Age | |
| Thickness | Between about 7 and 15 m |
| Area of occurrence | |
| Type locality | Stratotype: Disused de Tombe Quarry, St Pietersberg, Maastricht, Limburg, The Netherlands (co-ordinates 315.130/175.350). |
| Alternative names | |
| Authors | Robaszynski, F., Dhondt, A.V. & Jagt, J.W.M. |
| Date | 01/01/2001 |
| Cite as | Robaszynski, F., Dhondt, A.V. & Jagt, J.W.M., 2001. The Nekum Member, 01/01/2001. National Commission for Stratigraphy Belgium. http://ncs.naturalsciences.be/lithostratigraphy/Nekum-Member |
