Aalter Woensdrecht-Kallo Fm
Period:
Paleogene
Age Interval:
Province:
N Central Belgium (Antwerp)
Type Locality and Naming
Column: Woensdrecht-Kallo
Lithology and Thickness
Aalter Fm:
LITHOLOGY=Marine grey-green glauconiferous clayey sand. Followed upard by grey, fine sand, very fossiliferous at the top; and covered by brown-green to dark-green glauconiferous silty sand with many fossil fragments. Present in Woesndrecht, not Kallo. Oedelem Mbr consists of sand.
CALIBRATION=50% of Aalter Fm
For more details, click Aalter Fm.
REFERENCE=Steurbaut, 2006
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LITHOLOGY=Marine grey-green glauconiferous clayey sand. Followed upard by grey, fine sand, very fossiliferous at the top; and covered by brown-green to dark-green glauconiferous silty sand with many fossil fragments. Present in Woesndrecht, not Kallo. Oedelem Mbr consists of sand.
CALIBRATION=50% of Aalter Fm
For more details, click Aalter Fm.
REFERENCE=Steurbaut, 2006
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Lithology Pattern:
Fine-grained sandstone
Relationships and Distribution
Lower contact
Upper contact
Regional extent
GeoJSON
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Fossils
Age
Age Span:
Beginning stage:
Ypresian
Fraction up in beginning stage:
0.98
Beginning date (Ma):
48.23
Ending stage:
Lutetian
Fraction up in the ending stage:
0.1
Ending date (Ma):
47.37
Depositional setting
Depositional pattern:
Additional Information
long: 4.3 lat: 51.33
Compiler: