The information on this page is a summary description.
The full formal description is available here: Warneton Member
| Abbreviation | |
| Parent unit | Gembloux Formation |
| Child units | |
| Lithological description | Start with the characteristic dark brown horizons of the Humiferous Complex of Remicourt (HCR; Haesaerts et al., 1997, 1999), containing the Rocourt Tephra (Pouclet et al., 2008). This pedocomplex is frequently covered by a thick finely laminated colluvial deposit reworking underlying units (HCR and Rocourt Pedocomplex). In Hesbaye (Remicourt) and in the Haine Basin (Harmignies), a loess marker has been observed between the HCR and the laminated colluvium. In both areas, these deposits wear a boreal soil with B horizon and slight clay illuviation (Malplaquet Soil) followed up by a humic horizon which underlies the first calcareous loesses of the Vellereille Member (Gembloux Formation). |
| Age | Upper Pleistocene – end of Weichselian early glacial (Humiferous Complex of Remicourt = end of MIS 5a; Pirson et al., 2009) and lower part of Weichselian lower pleniglacial (lower part of MIS 4) (Haesaerts et al., 1999; van den Houte et al., 2003). |
| Thickness | |
| Area of occurrence | Middle Belgium, on plateau and slopes. |
| Type locality | Eben-Emael (western wall of the CBR chalk quarry at Romont; 50°47’27”N / 5°38’37”E). Paratype: Harmignies (Omya Benelux chalk quarry and CBR chalk quarry; respectively at 50°25’08”N / 4°00’35”E and 50°25’13”N / 4°00’56”E);- Veldwezelt-Hezerwater (western wall of the ancient Vandersanden brickyard quarry; 50°51’20”N / 5°38’24”E);- Kesselt (Nelissen brickyard quarry; 50°50’13”N / 5°37’12”E);- Rocourt (ancient Gritten sand pit; 50°40’07”N / 5°33’45” E). |
| Alternative names | |
| Authors | Haesaerts, P., Pirson, S. & Meijs, E. |
| Date | 07/12/2011 |
| Cite as | Haesaerts, P., Pirson, S. & Meijs, E., 2011. The Warneton Member, 07/12/2011. National Commission for Stratigraphy Belgium. http://ncs.naturalsciences.be/lithostratigraphy/Warneton-Member |
