Sedimentology and magnetic susceptibility of Mississippian (Tournaisian) carbonate sections in Belgium

peer reviewed ; Magnetic susceptibility (MS) and biostratigraphy have been used to correlate better the reference sections of Belgian Tournaisian, the Rivage road and railway sections and the Gendron-Celles railway section. These 200 m thick time-equivalent sections are about sixty kilometres apart and belong to two different sedimentation areas: a shallow ramp setting for Rivage (Condroz Sedimentation Area, Hance et al., 2001) and a subsiding area for Gendron (Dinant Sedimentation Area). The sedimentological model shows that both sections are characterized by a bioclastic dominated sedimentat... Mehr ...