Code
NUDB
Status
Formal.
Lithological description
Glacilacustrine clay, glacifluvial sand, glacial valley fills, tills.
Depositional setting
Glacial (Rijsdijk et al. 2005).
Definition of lower boundary
Not yet determined.
Definition of upper boundary
Not yet determined.
Thickness indication
Not yet determined.
Geographical distribution
North Sea.
Regional correlation
UK: -; GER: ?; BEL: ?
Age
Late Pleistocene (Weichselian).
Type section
Well:
Not yet determined.
Depth (thickness) AH:
Not yet determined.
Origin of name
Probably named after a synonym for the German Bight, the southeastern bight of the North Sea bounded by the Netherlands and Germany to the south, and Denmark and Germany to the east.
Previous name(s)
None.
Reviewed by (date)
Geert-Jan Vis (2019).
References
Rijsdijk, K.F., Passchier, S., Weerts, H.J.T., Laban, C., Van Leeuwen, R.J.W., Ebbing, J.H.J. 2005. Revised Upper Cenozoic stratigraphy of the Dutch sector of the North Sea Basin: towards an integrated lithostratigraphic, seismostratigraphic and allostratigraphic approach. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 84, 129-146. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016774600023015
Cite as
TNO-GDN ([YEAR]). Dogger Bight Formation. In: Stratigraphic Nomenclature of the Netherlands, TNO – Geological Survey of the Netherlands. Accessed on [DATE] from https://www.dinoloket.nl/en/stratigraphic-nomenclature/dogger-bight-formation.