Synoptical and Chronological Table of the Pliocene and Quaternary Beds 

 OF the Antwerp Basin. 









Coast 



Deep-Water 



Geological Periods 



Dunks & Raised 



Littoral and 



AND Shallow 



Deposits 



AND Phases, 



Beaches, 



Beach Deposits. 



Water 

 Deposits, 



distant from 

 THE Coast. 





r 



Stratified Clays and 









Blown Sands. 



Sands of the Lower 







f Campinien. 



Upper 



Campinien of Kiel, 







QuATEa- 1 



I Campinien. 



etc. 







NAaY. ^ 



r 



Beds with casts and 

 fragments of Plio- 







^ Diluvium., 





cene shells and bones 











I 



of the Mammoth and 

 Rhinoceros, 

 Drift with Flints. 







Pliocene. < 



Total emergence of the Pliocene Basin of Antwerp. 



Upper 

 Sands of ■< 

 Antwerp. 



Last phase of the Pliocene period 

 represented by deposits not known 

 in the Antwerp basin. 







Shell-beds of Ranst 

 and of the district 

 to the East. 



• 



Sands of Calloo with 

 TrophoTi antiquum. 



Argillaceous 



sands of Wyne- 



ghem with 



Trophon 



antiquum. 





Bed with debris an 

 first deposit of sand 

 antiquum. 



i casts of shells ; 

 s with Trophon 



Emergence succeeding the denudation of the Middle Sands 

 of Antwerp. 



Middle 

 Sands of 

 Antwerp. 



Lower 

 Sands of 

 Antwerp. 



Littoral zone of the 

 Port of Borsbeek; 

 Bryozoan rock. 



Sands of 

 Deurne, etc., 

 with Isocardia 

 cor. 



Sands of Wyne- 

 ghem, etc., with 

 Bryozoa. 



Partial emergence of the Lower Sands of Antwerp. 



Sands of Diest, 



or Diestien, 



Ferruginous 



sands. 



Gravelly sands 

 Antwerp, 



of 



Shell-banks of 

 Bolderbeg. 



Sands with Pec- 

 tuncuhis pilosus, 

 of the environs 

 of Antwerp. 



Sands of Ede- 

 ghemwithPowo- 

 pcsa Menardi. 



Miocenb 



and 



Uppkr 



Middle 

 Oligocene. 



Emergence succeeding the denudation of the Oligocene deposits. 



Upper 

 Rupelien, 



' Bolderian ' 

 sands of Bolder- 

 berg, 



Sandy clay of 

 Bergh,etc.,with 

 Nuculm. 



Rupflien clay 

 of Boom, etc. 



