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Neogene stratigraphy of the Langenboom locality (Noord-Brabant, the Netherlands)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2016

E. Wijnker ,
T.J. Bor ,
F.P. Wesselingh ,
D.K. Munsterman ,
H. Brinkhuis ,
A.W. Burger ,
H.B. Vonhof ,
K. Post ,
K. Hoedemakers  and
A.C. Janse
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E. Wijnker*
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Genetics, Wageningen University, Arboretumlaan 4, 6703 BD Wageningen, the Netherlands.
T.J. Bor
Affiliation:
Prinsenweer 54, 3363 JK Sliedrecht, the Netherlands.
F.P. Wesselingh
Affiliation:
Naturalis P.O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, the Netherlands.
D.K. Munsterman
Affiliation:
TNO B&O - National Geological Survey, P.O. Box 80015, 3508 TA Utrecht, the Netherlands.
H. Brinkhuis
Affiliation:
Palaeocecology, Inst. Environmental Biology, Laboratory of Pataeobotany and Palynology, Utrecht University, Budapestlaan 4, 3584 CD Utrecht, the Netherlands.
A.W. Burger
Affiliation:
P. Soutmanlaan 18, 1701 MC Heerhugowaard, the Nethertands.
H.B. Vonhof
Affiliation:
Faculty Earth and Life Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, de Boelelaan 1085, 1081 EH Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
K. Post
Affiliation:
Natuurmuseum Rotterdam P.O. Box 23452, 3001 KL Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
K. Hoedemakers
Affiliation:
Minervastraat 23, B 2640 Mortsel, Belgium.
A.C. Janse
Affiliation:
Gerard van Voornestraat 165, 3232 BE Brielle, the Netherlands.
N. Taverne
Affiliation:
Snipweg 14, 5451 VP Mill, the Netherlands.
*
*corresponding author. Email:erik.wijnker@wur.nl

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The locality of Langenboom (eastern Noord-Brabant, the Netherlands), also known as Mill, is famous for its Neogene molluscs, shark teeth, teleost remains, birds and marine mammals. The stratigraphic context of the fossils, which have been collected from sand suppletions, was hitherto poorly understood. Here we report on a section which has been sampled by divers in the adjacent flooded sandpit ‘De Kuilen’ from which the Langenboom sands have been extracted. The studied section covers part of the marine Miocene Breda Formation and Pliocene Oosterhout Formation, and is topped by fluvial Quaternary deposits of presumably the Beegden Formation. The Breda Formation (15 – 18 m below lake surface) in this section is, based on organic walled dinoflagellate cysts, of an early-middle Tortonian age. The Oosterhout Formation (7 – 15 m below lake surface) comprises two depositional sequences, the lower of which (12 – 15 m below lake surface) presumably is the source of most Langenboom fossils. Combined dinoflagellate cyst and benthic mollusc indicators point to an early Zanclean - early Piacenzian age for this lower cycle. Its basal transgressive lag and (to lesser extent) top comprise reworked Tortonian taxa as well, Dinoflagellate cysts and a single benthic mollusc point to a Piacenzian age for the upper Oosterhout Formation sequence (7 – 12 m below lake surface).

Keywords

Breda FormationMillMioceneNorth Sea BasinOosterhout FormationPliocene
Type
Research Article
Information
Netherlands Journal of Geosciences , Volume 87 , Issue 2 , August 2008 , pp. 165 - 180
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Copyright © Stichting Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 2008

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