Cryogenic Structures in the Weichselian Deposits of Northern Belgium and their Significance

1983/01/01 by Guy De Moor, De Moor, G.
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Social Sciences · #Geology and Paleoclimatology Research #Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology #Geological formations and processes

paper · pdf · doi:10.2312/polarforschung.53.2.79

Abstract

The paper presents an inventory of periglacial structures in the Weichsellau deposits 01' Northern Belgium, especially those of the Flemish Valley infilling.It recommends a morc completc stratigraphie and sequential inventor y in ordcr to better reconstruct thc Weichselian paleoenvironment and its evolution.The paper discusscs cryogenic structures found in the Early-Weichselian deposits and argucs for a more important impact 01' periglacial conditions during that period.Information is derived from the exposures in rhc Weichsclian infill 01' the thalwegx 01'the Flemish Valley.Thc Early-Weichselian phenomena are placed in the framewerk of thcir rnotphological, climatological, sedimentological and custaucal dynamism, and a partition of the Early-Weichselian is suggested .Zusammenfassung: Der Aufsatz behandelt das typische Inventar der fossilen periglazjren Strukturen in den weichselzeitlichen Ablagerun-0 gen Nord-Belgiens, besonders in den Ablagerungen des Flmischen Tals.Es wird die Erfassung eines vollstndigen stratigraphischen und sequenziellen Inventars empfohlen,

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