The information on this page is a summary description.
The full formal description is available here: Vijlen Member
| Abbreviation | |
| Parent unit | Gulpen Formation |
| Child unit | |
| Lithological description | Yellowish grey, glauconitic fine- grained chalks, with basal glauconite-rich portion, subdivided into seven intervals by P. J. Felder & Bless (1994), each with distinctive fossil assemblages. |
| Age | |
| Thickness | Generally between 15 and 25 m, but locally up to about 100 m |
| Area of occurrence | |
| Type locality | Stratotype: road cutting between Mamelis and Bocholtzerheide, on the Dutch-German boundary (co-ordinates 312.330/196.450). |
| 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 Vijlen Member, 01/01/2001. National Commission for Stratigraphy Belgium. http://ncs.naturalsciences.be/lithostratigraphy/Vijlen-Member |
