Prevalkenburg Campine Basin-Maasmelchen Fm
Period:
Cretaceous
Age Interval:
Province:
NW Belgium (Maastricht)
Type Locality and Naming
Column: Campine Basin-Maasmelchen
Lithology and Thickness
Pre-Valkenburg" Fm:
LITHOLOGY=To the SW, the "Pre-Valkenburg" FM becomes the Gulpen Fm in the Liege-Limburg area. The Viljen Mbr consists of glauconitic fine grained chalks.
CALIBRATION=Drawn 31% up in E. Maastrichtian
REFERENCE=Robaszynski, 2006
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LITHOLOGY=To the SW, the "Pre-Valkenburg" FM becomes the Gulpen Fm in the Liege-Limburg area. The Viljen Mbr consists of glauconitic fine grained chalks.
CALIBRATION=Drawn 31% up in E. Maastrichtian
REFERENCE=Robaszynski, 2006
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Lithology Pattern:
Chalk
Relationships and Distribution
Lower contact
Upper contact
Regional extent
GeoJSON
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Fossils
Age
Age Span:
Beginning stage:
Campanian
Fraction up in beginning stage:
0.82
Beginning date (Ma):
74.28
Ending stage:
Maastrichtian
Fraction up in the ending stage:
0.43
Ending date (Ma):
69.56
Depositional setting
Depositional pattern:
Additional Information
long: 5.73 lat: 51
Compiler: