The boundary between the middle Eocene Brussel sand and the Lede sand formations in the Zaventem-Nederokkerzeel area (northeast of Brussels, Belgium)
In the Zaventem airport railway cutting, to the north-east of Brussels, the upper part of the Brussel Sand Formation consists of two major units, both attributable to calcareous nannofossil zone NP14a. The lower predominantly sandy unit ZB1 (including subunits A, B and C, belonging to NP14al) is built up of sparsely glauconitic, relatively coarse tidal current deposits with nodule levels cemented by carbonate and silica, of which one shows slumping structures and is interpreted as a seismite. The uppermost unit ZB2 (also labelled D, belonging to NP14a2), composed of alternating thin fine sa... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2000 |
Schlagwörter: | Eocene / Chondrichthyes / Echinodermata [Echinoderms] / Haptophyta / Belgium / Zaventem |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27383612 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/242034.pdf |