Bloemendaal Member

SLDBB

Formal (Van Adrichem Boogaert & Kouwe 1993).

Sequence of white to grey, fine- to medium-grained sandstones interbedded with siltstones and claystones, dispersed coal particles are common.

The member reflects a lower-coastal-plain setting. The sandstones were deposited by fluvial channels. Marine influence was minor.

Conformably overlies the flood-plain fines of the Driehuis Mottled Claystone Member or the Fourteens Claystone Member.

Overlain by the Neomiodon Claystone Member, or it is unconformably overlain by the Helm Member or Vlieland Sandstone Formation.

Up to 271 m.

Restricted to those parts of the Broad Fourteens Basin where Late Kimmerian truncation is limited (P03-Q01-K18-K15).

Locally, this member may be a lateral equivalent of part of the Neomiodon Claystone Member.

latest Tithonian - earliest Berriasian (middle-late Volgian (Late Portlandian) to Ryazanian).

Named after the town of Bloemendaal in the south of the Dutch province of Noord-Holland. It lies approximately on strike projection from the offshore type locality.

None.

Sander Houben (2017).

Van Adrichem Boogaert, H.A. & Kouwe, W.F.P. 1993. Stratigraphic nomenclature of The Netherlands; revision and update by RGD and NOGEPA, Section G, Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous. Mededelingen Rijks Geologische Dienst, 50, 1-80..