RECENT RESEARCH ON THE BRABANT MASSIF

The Brabant Massif is the southeastern part of the Caledonian fold bel t known as the Anglo-Brabant Massif; which extends fi om East Anglia t o central Belgium and is a major constituting parr of the Eastern Aval onia microcontinent. Recent research in Lower Palaeozoic stratigraphy and in geophysical interpretation led to a new subcrop map of the Brab ant Massif: Palaeogeographical analysis supports the rapid movement of this Massif to lower latitudes and towards Baltica in Ordovician time s. Structurally, the Brabant Massif appears as a faulted antiform, fla nked longitudinally to the southwest by a magmatic are of[ate Ordovici an to early Silurian age. An elongated gravity low points to concealed granitic intrusions below a part of the magmatic arc.