The information on this page is a summary description.
The full formal description is available here: Rotselaar Member
| Abbreviation | |
| Parent unit | Arenberg Formation |
| Child units | |
| Lithological description | Brown to black peat (organic matter of vegetal origin) and gyttja with a varying content of clastic sediments. The peat may contain well defined vegetation remains such as wood fragments, fruits, seeds etc. or may be amorphic and structureless. Clastic sediments present in the peat are mostly fine-grained (clay, silt, fine sand) and are either homogeneously distributed within the peat or occur as laminae, beds or lenses. Additionally calcareous tufa and a variable amount of shells and shell fragments may be present. |
| Age | Lateglacial to Holocene. Figure 1: Stratigraphic profiles of the Arenberg Formation in respectively the downstream part (Temse) and upstream part (St. Paulus) of the Schelde basin. |
| Thickness | From decimetres up to a few meters, in extreme cases 11 meters. |
| Area of occurrence | Schelde basin. |
| Type locality | Alluvial plain of the Dijle near Rotselaar. Lambert 72 coordinates: X= 173300; Y= 181600. |
| Alternative names | |
| Authors | Bogemans, F., Kiden, P., Huybrechts, W., Notebaert, B., Beerten, K., Lanckacker, T., Rixhon, G. & Heyvaert, V. |
| Date | 01/01/2017 |
| Cite as | Bogemans, F., Kiden, P., Huybrechts, W., Notebaert, B., Beerten, K., Lanckacker, T., Rixhon, G. & Heyvaert, V., 2017. The Rotselaar Member, 01/01/2017. National Commission for Stratigraphy Belgium. http://ncs.naturalsciences.be/lithostratigraphy/Rotselaar-Member |
