The information on this page is a summary description.
The full formal description is available here: Muschelkalk Formation
| Abbreviation | |
| Parent unit | Altena Group |
| Child units | |
| Lithological description | Alternation of carbonates, evaporites and fine-grained detrital rocks, deposited in shallow marine to restricted lagoonal conditions. A three-fold yet unnamed subdivision can be made, from bottom to top: 1. variegated mudstones and thin bedded carbonates with anhydrite beds; 2. alternating limestones and dolomites with red clay intercalations and anhydrite; 3. variegated calcareous mudstones and clayey siltstones with anhydrite nodules. Top: passing into Keuper Formation; base: overlying Röt Formation. |
| Age | Middle Triassic, Anisian – Ladinian. |
| Thickness | 85 m. |
| Area of occurrence | Roer Valley Graben; removed by erosion from Campine Basin. |
| Type locality | Parastratotype in Belgium : well KB99 Neeroeteren. |
| Alternative names | |
| Authors | Dusar, M., Langenaeker, V. & Wouters, L. |
| Date | 01/01/2001 |
| Cite as | Dusar, M., Langenaeker, V. & Wouters, L., 2001. The Muschelkalk Formation, 01/01/2001. National Commission for Stratigraphy Belgium. http://ncs.naturalsciences.be/lithostratigraphy/Muschelkalk-Formation |
