The information on this page is a summary description.
The full formal description is available here: Rekkem Formation
Abbreviation
REK
Parent unit
Child units
Lithological description
Dark and medium grey, silty and clayey shale, with no sandstone present; compact, laminated or obliquely stratified; deposited as distal turbidites; 82% of the sequences are Tde, with a mean thickness of 3.5 cm; less frequently (3%) Tc(d)e and 15% Tbc(d)e; characteristic is the bioturbation with irregular tubes and absence of hemispheric pyritospheres.
Age
Based on the chitinozoans, a tentative Pridoli age is proposed (Van Grootel, 1990 ms).
Thickness
At least 13 m.
Area of occurrence
Only in the subsurface of the SW part of the Brabant Massif.
Type locality
Borehole in Rekkem, south-west of Kortrijk, (BGS N° 96E77).
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 Rekkem Formation, 01/01/2001. National Commission for Stratigraphy Belgium. https://ncs.naturalsciences.be/lithostratigraphy/Rekkem-Formation
