Towards an integrated land-sea stratigraphy of the Netherlands
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The classification of rocks and sediments may be based on many types of stratigraphy; e.g. litho-, bio-, seismo-, chrono-, chemostratigraphy, and others. The boundaries of the various types of stratigraphy need not at all or seldom coincide. It is especially this last consideration that may cause problems, since this discrepancy in boundaries is very difficult to understand for those not professionally trained as geologists. Since TNO-NITG, as the Dutch Geological Survey, is an organisation for applied geosciences it is necessary that full notice is taken of this problem. A complete revision of the existing late Tertiary and Quaternary lithostratigraphy of the onshore part of the Netherlands, which was a mixture of various types of stratigraphies, was undertaken starting in 1997. At the same time the opportunity was taken to integrate this new scheme with the two other operational stratigraphies used by TNO-NITG. Important solutions in resolving some of the integration problems are outlined. An example of the relation between some of the newly established lithostratigraphic units with some of the seismostratigraphic ones used in the offshore part of the Netherlands is given. Finally an example of the implications of the new approach for the existing geological model is presented. © 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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TNO Identifier
953696
ISSN
02773791
Source
Quaternary Science Reviews, 22(15-17), pp. 1579-1587.
Pages
1579-1587
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