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The role of a proto-Schelde River in the genesis of the southwestern Netherlands, inferred from the Quaternary successions and fossils in Moriaanshoofd Borehole (Zeeland, the Netherlands)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 March 2014

A.A. Slupik ,
F.P. Wesselingh ,
D.F. Mayhew ,
A.C. Janse ,
F.E. Dieleman ,
M. van Strydonck ,
P. Kiden ,
A.W. Burger  and
J.W.F. Reumer
A.A. Slupik*
Affiliation:
Natuurhistorisch Museum Rotterdam, Westzeedijk 345, 3015 AA Rotterdam, the Netherlands
F.P. Wesselingh
Affiliation:
Naturalis Biodiversity Center, P.O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, the Netherlands
D.F. Mayhew
Affiliation:
Natuurhistorisch Museum Rotterdam, Westzeedijk 345, 3015 AA Rotterdam, the Netherlands Naturalis Biodiversity Center, P.O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, the Netherlands
A.C. Janse
Affiliation:
Naturalis Biodiversity Center, P.O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, the Netherlands
F.E. Dieleman
Affiliation:
Naturalis Biodiversity Center, P.O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, the Netherlands
M. van Strydonck
Affiliation:
Koninklijk Instituut voor het Kunstpatrimonium, Jubelpark 1, 1000 Brussel, Belgium
P. Kiden
Affiliation:
TNO – Geological Survey of the Netherlands, P.O. Box 80015, 3508 AL Utrecht, the Netherlands
A.W. Burger
Affiliation:
P. Soutmanlaan 18, 1701 MC Heerhugowaard, the Netherlands
J.W.F. Reumer
Affiliation:
Natuurhistorisch Museum Rotterdam, Westzeedijk 345, 3015 AA Rotterdam, the Netherlands Department of Geosciences, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80021, 3508 TA Utrecht, the Netherlands
*
Email: [email protected]

Abstract

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We investigated the Quaternary lithological succession and faunas in a borehole near Moriaanshoofd (Province of Zeeland, SW Netherlands), in order to improve our understanding of the depositional context of classical Gelasian mammal faunas from the region. The fossils mostly derive from the base of a fossil-rich interval between 31 m and 36.5 m below the surface, that was initially interpreted as a Middle or Late Pleistocene interglacial marine unit, but turned out to be a Late Quaternary fluvial unit with large amounts of reworked fossils and sediments. Eocene mollusc taxa pinpoint Flanders (Belgium) as the source region for this river. Within the base of this paleo-Schelde River fossil material of various stratigraphic provenance became incorporated.

Keywords

PleistoceneEocenestratigraphyreworkingScheldemammalsmolluscs
Type
Research Article
Information
Netherlands Journal of Geosciences , Volume 92 , Issue 1 , April 2013 , pp. 69 - 86
Copyright
Copyright © Stichting Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 2013

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