Gottignies Campine Basin-Maasmelchen Fm
Period:
Carboniferous
Age Interval:
Province:
NW Belgium (Maastricht)
Type Locality and Naming
Column: Campine Basin-Maasmelchen
Lithology and Thickness
Gottignies Fm:
LITHOLOGY=Represents transition from Visean to Serpukhovian. Finely bedded chert. Boundary is not specified, but presence of C. membranacea suggests that this formation formed during the earliest Serpukhovian.
CALIBRATION=Drawn at base of Serpukhovian
For more details, click Gottignies Fm.
REFERENCE=Delmer et al., 2001
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LITHOLOGY=Represents transition from Visean to Serpukhovian. Finely bedded chert. Boundary is not specified, but presence of C. membranacea suggests that this formation formed during the earliest Serpukhovian.
CALIBRATION=Drawn at base of Serpukhovian
For more details, click Gottignies Fm.
REFERENCE=Delmer et al., 2001
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Lithology Pattern:
Chert
Relationships and Distribution
Lower contact
Upper contact
Regional extent
GeoJSON
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Fossils
Age
Age Span:
Beginning stage:
Serpukhovian
Fraction up in beginning stage:
0
Beginning date (Ma):
330.34
Ending stage:
Serpukhovian
Fraction up in the ending stage:
0.16
Ending date (Ma):
329.24
Depositional setting
Depositional pattern:
Additional Information
long: 5.73 lat: 51
Compiler: