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3.1.7. Lanklaar Formation - Lk

 

Authors: Gullentops & Paulissen, herein.

Description: A series of low terrace gravels in the valley bottom, gravel base below the modern alluvial plain. Mostly fine gravel with sand lenses. Considerably impoverished Meuse by loss of its Vosges headwaters. A number of allostratigraphic Members are distinguished.

Stratotype: Lower Meuse valley, Lanklaar area.

Area: Lower Meuse Valley.

Age: From Middle Pleistocene, Upper Saalian to Upper Pleistocene, Late Weichselian