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3.2.7.2. Oostakker Member - ElA

 

Author: De Moor, 1974.

Description: A complex of loam to sandloam layers alternating with sandy to clayey laminae. The top is often a loamy peat. The complex is intensively cryoturbated at several levels.

Stratotype: Gent - Sifferdok (De Moor 1963- floodplain deposits of braided rivers); Hombeek (Bogemans, 1993 - meandering river, Hombeek Member).

Area: Schelde basin.

Thickness: Up to 10m and more.

Age: Upper Pleistocene, Weichselian.