- Usage in publication:
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- Belgium Member
- Modifications:
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- Named
- Dominant lithology:
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- Silt
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Illinois basin
Summary:
Belgium Member of Banner Formation. Consists of chiefly brown silt. Thickness 1 m at type section. Overlies Hegeler Till Member; underlies Harmattan Till Member. Age is Pleistocene.
Type section: Harmattan Strip Mine No. 2, in SE/4 SW/4 SW/4 sec. 34, T. 20 N., R. 12 W., Danville, Vermilion Co., east-central IL. Named from town of Belgium.
[Name preempted by Belgium Member of Lake Church Formation of Raasch (1935) in WI.]
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1520, p. 24).
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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