The information on this page is a summary description.
The full formal description is available here: Wichelen Member
| Abbreviation | |
| Parent unit | Arenberg Formation |
| Child units | |
| Lithological description | Grey coloured, mostly fine clastic sediments, dominantly silty in the upstream part of the river systems and clayey in the downstream part. Sand is common in the basal part of this unit as individual lenses, laminae and beds or as part of the silty and clayey deposits. The sand content decreases upward. Fine to very fine vegetation detritus is present but in situ peat accumulations are absent. In general, the Wichelen Member forms the lowermost part of the Arenberg Formation and is overlain by the Rotselaar Member (Fig. 1). |
| Age | Lateglacial to early Holocene. |
| Thickness | From a few decimetres to a few meters. |
| Area of occurrence | Schelde basin. |
| Type locality | Alluvial plain of the River Schelde near the Bergenmeersen (Wichelen), core 1635 from Bogemans et al. (2009); coordinates X = 3°5750 and Y = 51° 14. |
| 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 Wichelen Member, 01/01/2017. National Commission for Stratigraphy Belgium. http://ncs.naturalsciences.be/lithostratigraphy/Wichelen-Member |
