The information on this page is a summary description.
The full formal description is available here: Zelzate Formation
| Abbreviation | |
| Parent unit | Formal |
| Child units | Tongeren Group |
| Lithological description | Bassevelde Member, Watervliet Member, Ruisbroek Member |
| Age | This marine unit starts with a dark grey, moderately fine, silty sand, glauconiferous and micaceous, with intercalations of thick lenses of grey clay; it is covered by dark green, sandy clay. The top is formed by green grey sands, rich in fos-sils, with large sandstone concretions. |
| Thickness | Early Priabonian to Early Oligocene. |
| Area of occurrence | Probably 25 to 30 m, decreasing to the east. |
| Type locality | Northern part of East-Flanders and the Antwerpen Province till the area between the Nete and the Demer rivers. |
| Alternative names | |
| Authors | |
| Date | Jacobs (1975, 1978), Jacobs & Vandenberghe (1988) |
| Cite as | Laga, P., Louwye S. & Geets, S., 2001. The Zelzate Formation, 01/01/2001. National Commission for Stratigraphy Belgium. http://ncs.naturalsciences.be/lithostratigraphy/Zelzate-Formation |
