Age and depositional environment of the Kuhfeld Beds (Lower Cretaceous) in the Alstatte Embayment (W Germany, E Netherlands)

  • G.F.W. Herngreen Geological Survey of the Netherlands, PO. Box 157, 2000 AD Haarlem, the Netherlands
  • C. Hartkopf-Froder Geological Survey of North Rhine-Westphalia, PO. Box 1080, 4150 Krefeld, Germany
  • G.H.J. Ruegg Geological Survey of the Netherlands, PO. Box 157, 2000 AD Haarlem, the Netherlands
Keywords: boreholes, Munsterland, palynology, sedimentology, stratigraph

Abstract

Major parts of the Lower Cretaceous Kuhfeld Beds as present in the Alstätte Embayment, Dutch-German border area, have a marine origin and were not exclusively deposited in a limnic-terrestrial setting as previously thought. For the first time, direct fossil evidence is available. This dates the base of the formation as transitional Ryazanian- Valanginian and indicates a late Early-Late Hauterivian age higher in the formation.

Published
1994-01-01
How to Cite
G.F.W. Herngreen, C. Hartkopf-Froder, & G.H.J. Ruegg. (1994). Age and depositional environment of the Kuhfeld Beds (Lower Cretaceous) in the Alstatte Embayment (W Germany, E Netherlands). Netherlands Journal of Geosciences, 72, 375-391. Retrieved from https://njgjournal.nl/index.php/njg/article/view/12522
Issue
Volume 72 - 1993
Section
Regular paper

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