The information on this page is a summary description.
The full formal description is available here: Zutendaal Formation
Abbreviation | Zd |
Parent unit | Meuse Group |
Child units | |
Lithological description | Sediments from the Meuse when diverted to the northwest, depositing large fans covering the Kempen Plateau. Coarse aggrading gravel, considered fluvio-glacial with ice-rafted blocks, heavily weathered into reddish brown As Soil. |
Age | Basal Middle Pleistocene, “Cromerian”, probably Glacial B. |
Thickness | |
Area of occurrence | Lower Meuse Valley. |
Type locality | As quarry. |
Alternative names | |
Authors | Gullentops, F., Bogemans, F., De Moor, G., Paulissen, E. & Pissart, A. |
Date | 01/01/2001 |
Cite as | Gullentops, F., Bogemans, F., De Moor, G., Paulissen, E. & Pissart, A., 2001. The Zutendaal Formation, 01/01/2001. National Commission for Stratigraphy Belgium. http://ncs.naturalsciences.be/lithostratigraphy/Zutendaal-Formation |