Zutendaal Formation

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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

Quaternary

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