Best Member

NUBXBE

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

Stiff brownish grey to brownish green loam, sandy, with intercalated light brown very fine to medium sand, silty, non-calcareous, rooted. Local peat layers.

Fluvial floodplain (Meuse), aeolian and small-scale fluvial.

Usually a sharp contact with underlying fine to moderately coarse-grained sand of the Boxtel Formation.

Usually, sharp contact with fine to medium sand of the Boxtel Formation (undifferentiated) or with coarser fluvial and fluvioglacial deposits (e.g. Koewacht Formation, Kreftenheye Formation, Sterksel Formation, Waalre Formation and Drente Formation).

Generally 4-6 m, up to 10 m.

Northern part of the Roer Valley Graben in the southeastern Netherlands.

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

Presumably late Middle Pleistocene (Saalian) or older.

Named after the village of Best, in the southern Netherlands.

None.

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.