Upper Silverpit Claystone Member

Code
ROCLU
Status
Formal (NAM & RGD 1980).
Lithologische beschrijving

Thick, red-rown, sandy clay- and siltstone interval with some intercalated sand-/siltstone stringers and beds. Anhydritic nodules are common in the claystones of some intervals. Some thin carbonate, anhydrite, and halite beds occur locally.

Afzettingsmilieu

Playa lake.

Definitie ondergrens

Conformably on the Silverpit Evaporite Member, from which it can be discerned by the absence of thick beds of evaporites (halite and/or anhydrite).

Definitie bovengrens

Overlain paraconformably by the black bituminous shales of the Coppershale Member of the Zechstein 1 (Werra) Formation.

Dikte indicatie
Up to 360 m.
Geografische verbreiding
Regionale correlatie
UK: Silverpit Formation; GER: Elbe Sub-Group; BEL: -.
Ouderdom
Capitanian - Wuchiapingian.
Holostratotype
Depth (thickness) AH:
3119 - 3258 m (139 m)
Parastratotype
Depth (thickness) AH:
3319 - 3384 m (65 m)
Parastratotype
Depth (thickness) AH:
3283 - 3405 m (122 m)
Oorsprong naam
Name derived from the main lithology and the stratigraphic position in the upper part of the Silverpit Formation in the centre of the basin.
Vorige benaming(en)
None.
Gereviewed door (datum)
Harmen Mijnlieff (2017).
Referenties
NAM & RGD 1980. Stratigraphic nomenclature of The Netherlands. Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Nederlands Geologisch Mijnbouwkundig Genootschap 32, 77 p.
Van Adrichem Boogaert, H.A. & Kouwe, W.F.P. 1994. Stratigraphic nomenclature of The Netherlands; revision and update by RGD and NOGEPA, Section D, Permian. Mededelingen Rijks Geologische Dienst, 50, 1-42.
Cite as
TNO-GDN ([YEAR]). Upper Silverpit Claystone Member. In: Stratigraphic Nomenclature of the Netherlands, TNO – Geological Survey of the Netherlands. Accessed on [DATE] from https://www.dinoloket.nl/en/stratigraphic-nomenclature/upper-silverpit-claystone-member.