135E1098.txt

Feuille : 135E - VERVIERS - 428
N°SGB : 135E1098
Secteur :


X : 253538
Y : 145140

Commune : Rechain

Description lithologique :
Date : 2002

Nature : sondage
roche :
Formation :
localisation :


Références :




Description :

Adresse propriétaire : M. Archambaut, 087/31.03.33


S3, from top to bottom :

o 0-0.5 m: agricultural soil
o 0.5-2.5 m: grey and salmon pink gravelly sand with thin clay layers; the sand grains are angular
o 2.5-10 m: variegated clayey and gravelly sand; the number and size of the gravels increase
downwards, with white quartz
and sandstone pebbles up to 5 cm long at the base
o 10-11.7 m: dark brown to black manganiferous clay. The borehole had to be stopped before reaching the
bedrock.


Référence : publication à paraître :
Geologica Belgica:
'Cenomanian sands and clays north of the Vesdre valley: the oldest known Cretaceous deposits in eastern Belgium'
par: A. Demoulin, F. Quesnel, C. Dupuis, P. Gerrienne & J. Yans