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3.1.5. Zutendaal Formation - Zd

 

Authors: Gullentops & Paulissen, herein.

Description: Sediments from the Meuse when diverted to the northwest, depositing large fans covering the Kempen Plateau. Coarse aggrading gravel, considered fluvio-glacial with ice-rafted blocks, heavily weathered into reddish brown As Soil.

Stratotype: As quarry.

Area: Lower Meuse Valley.

Age: Basal Middle Pleistocene, "Cromerian", probably Glacial B.