Schimmert Member

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

Dark brown to yellowish brown loam (Kuyl 1980), sandy (loess). In the southeast, usually subdivided into a lower (low carbonate content) and upper (higher carbonate content) part. Palaeosols.

Periglacial aeolian (loess).

Sharp, unconformable contact with river sand and gravel (Beegden Formation) and, locally, with Neogene and Cretaceous marine deposits.

Commonly exposed at the surface.

Up to about 10 m.

Southeasternmost Netherlands and central-eastern Netherlands bordering a major ice-pushed complex.

North Sea: ?; UK: informal Pegwell Formation (McMillan et al. 2011); GER: ?; BEL: Romont Group (former Gembloux Formation).

late Middle Pleistocene (Saalian) - Late Pleistocene (Weichselian).

Named after the village of Schimmert, in the southeasternmost Netherlands.

Loess deposits in the former Eindhoven and Twente Formations (Doppert et al. 1975).

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

Doppert, J.W.Chr., Ruegg, G.H.J., Van Staalduinen, C.J., Zagwijn, W.H., Zandstra, J.G. 1975. Formaties van het Kwartair en Boven-Tertiair in Nederland. In: Zagwijn, W.H., Van Staalduinen, C.J. (eds.): Toelichting bij geologische overzichtskaarten van Nederland. Rijks Geologische Dienst, Haarlem, 11-56.

McMillan, A.A., Hamblin, R.J.O., Merritt, J.W. 2011. A lithostratigraphical framework for onshore Quaternary and Neogene (Tertiary) superficial deposits of Great Britain and the Isle of Man. British Geological Survey Research Report, RR/10/03, 343 p.

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.