THE STRATIGRAPHICAL POSITION OF THE EDEGEM-SANDS MEMBER (BERCHEM FORMATION, MIOCENE) IN ITS TYPE AREA AT WILRIJK (N BELGIUM), BASED ON PLANKTONIC-FORAMINIFERA

Authors
HOOYBERGHS HJF
Citation
Hjf. Hooyberghs, THE STRATIGRAPHICAL POSITION OF THE EDEGEM-SANDS MEMBER (BERCHEM FORMATION, MIOCENE) IN ITS TYPE AREA AT WILRIJK (N BELGIUM), BASED ON PLANKTONIC-FORAMINIFERA, Geologie en mijnbouw, 75(1), 1996, pp. 33-42
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Geology,"Mining & Mineral Processing
Journal title
Geologie en mijnbouw → ACNP
ISSN journal
00167746
Volume
75
Issue
1
Year of publication
1996
Pages
33 - 42
Database
ISI
SICI code
0016-7746(1996)75:1<33:TSPOTE>2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
The glauconitic and fossiliferous Edegem Sands Member of the Berchem F ormation (Miocene) in northern Belgium contains 25 different taxa of p lanktonic foraminifera. The presence of Globorotalia kugleri and Globi gerinoides primordius allows to assign an Aquitanian age (Early Miocen e) to the member. More accurately, this presence allows a correlation with Biozone N4, defined in tropical regions by Blow (1969, 1979).