Lower Detfurth Sandstone Member

RBMDL

Formal (Van Adrichem Boogaert & Kouwe 1994).

Intercalated layer of reddish-brown siltstone or silty claystone. Developed as a massive, light-coloured, arkosic sandstone in the western Netherlands offshore and the southern onshore. The high quartz content and quartz cementation of the sandstones is typical there. In the northern offshore, halite cementation occurs in the vicinity of Zechstein salt domes.

Fluvial to eolian in the southern areas (Ames & Farfan 1996) and the Ems Low, and mainly eolian in the Dutch Central Graben (Fontaine et al. 1993).

Not yet defined.

Not yet defined.

Up to 60 m.

UK: Bunter Sandstone Formation; GER: Detfurth Formation; BEL: Detfurth Formation.

Olenekian.

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Johan ten Veen (2017).

Ames, R. & Farfan, P.F. 1996. The environment of deposition of the Triassic Main Buntsandstein Formation in the P and Q quadrants, offshore the Netherlands. In: Rondeel, H.E., Batjes, D.A.J. & Nieuwenhuijs, W.H. (eds): Geology of gas and oil under the Netherlands. Kluwer (Dordrecht). 167–178.

Fontaine, J.M., Guastella, G., Jouault, P. & De la Vega, P. 1993. F15-A: a Triassic gas field on the eastern limit of the Dutch Central Graben. In: Parker J.R. (ed.): Petroleum Geology of Northwest Europe. Proceedings of the 4th Conference, Geological Society (London). 583–593.

Van Adrichem Boogaert, H.A. & Kouwe, W.F.P. 1994. Stratigraphic nomenclature of The Netherlands; revision and update by RGD and NOGEPA, Section E, Triassic. Mededelingen Rijks Geologische Dienst, 50, 1-28.