The information on this page is a summary description.
The full formal description is available here: Petites Tailles Formation
| Abbreviation | PET |
| Parent unit | Salm Group |
| Child units | |
| Lithological description | Whitish quartzitic sandstone, often breccia, compact bedded chloritic slate and conglomeratic sandstone with greenish shale pebbles. |
| Age | Without macrofossils and only long-ranging acritarchs present (Vanguestaine, unpublished); by its stratigraphical position supposedly between Mid or Late Ordovician (age of the underlying Bihain Fm) and the late Lochkovian (age of covering Fooz Fm, Hance et al., 1992). Geukens (1999) accepts for at least part of the formation an equivalence with the Colanhan Mbr of the Ottré Fm. |
| Thickness | (>75 m). |
| Area of occurrence | Southern part of the Stavelot Massif. |
| Type locality | Not yet defined; type area in the vicinity of Baraque de Fraiture and the hamlet Petites Tailles. |
| 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 Petites Tailles Formation, 01/01/2001. National Commission for Stratigraphy Belgium. https://ncs.naturalsciences.be/lithostratigraphy/Petites-Tailles-Formation |
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