Tilligte Member

NUBXTI

Formal (Schokker et al. 2005; Schokker et al. 2007).

Grey loam, humic and sandy, with intercalated sand laminae and plant remains. Brown amorphous peat, clayey, silty or sandy. Locally, yellowish grey gyttja layers, calcareous.

Periglacial lacustrine, small-scale fluvial (flood basin).

Gradual transition into the other facies of the Boxtel Formation.

Erosive contact with fluvioperiglacial sand (Singraven Member, Boxtel Formation).

Up to 10 m.

Former glacial basins in the eastern Netherlands and locally in the western Netherlands.

North Sea: not present; UK: not present; GER: not present; BEL: not present.

late Middle Pleistocene (Middle Weichselian).

Named after the village of Tilligte, close to the German border in the eastern Netherlands.

Tilligte Beds (Van Huissteden 1990).

Wim Dubelaar (2018), Sytze van Heteren (2019).

Schokker, J, De Lang, F.D., Weerts, H.J.T., Den Otter, C., Passchier, S. 2005. Beschrijving lithostratigrafische eenheid. Nederlands Instituut voor Toegepaste Geowetenschappen TNO. Utrecht.

Schokker, J., Weerts, H.J.T., Westerhoff, W.E., Berendsen, H.J.A., Den Otter, C. 2007. Introduction of the Boxtel Formation and implications for the Quaternary lithostratigraphy of the Netherlands. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences / Geologie en Mijnbouw, 86, 197-210.

Van Huissteden, J. 1990. Tundra rivers of the Last Glacial: sedimentation and geomorphological processes during the Middle Pleniglacial in Twente, eastern Netherlands. Mededelingen Rijks Geologische Dienst, 44 (3), 3-138.