Des traces de lithalses sur des replats de la retombée nord de la crête de la Vecquée ; Lithalses traces on slopes of the northern fall of the "Vecquée" ridge

Pissart (2009, 2014) produced a map showing the distribution of "fish tanks", traces of lithalses, in Eastern Belgium (Hautes Fagnes) and he insisted on a close relationships with the systematic presence in the subsoil of the Upper Cambrian rocks (former Revinian), namely: quartzites, quartzophyllades and phyllades. He made of this lithological aspect a fundamental factor, as well as the periglacial climatic conditions, to justify the formation of lithalses in Eastern Belgium. He points out one exception in the Elsenborn military camp, where the Lower Devonian sandstones and silty shales are e... Mehr ...