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The Rotliegend in the Netherlands is placed in an Upper Rotliegend Subgroup, which consists of two formations: The Slochteren Formation (sandstone and minor conglomerate) in the southern and central part of the country, and the Silverpit Formation (shale, siltstone and evaporites) in the northern part of the country, with its main extension offshore in the North Sea.
In the transitional zone of these two formations four members can be distinguished from top to bottom: the Ten Boer Member (shale and siltstone), the Upper Slochteren Member (sandstone), the Ameland Member (shale and siltstone) and the Lower Slochteren (sandstone). A description of the type section of the Ameland Member is given in this paper. A locally present fifth member, consisting of thin, gray marine sandstone and conglomerate, is provisionally called the gray upper member.
The Rotliegend sediments were derived from the Variscan mountain chain and the London-Brabant Massif situated SE respectively SW of the depositional basin. Deposition took place under arid to semi-arid conditions. The Slochteren sandstones are of fluviatile (wadi), aeolian and sebkha facies; shale and evaporites were deposited in a desert lake in the central part of the basin.
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van Adrichem Boogaert, H.A. (1976). Outline of the Rotliegend (Lower Permian) in the Netherlands. In: Falke, H. (eds) The Continental Permain in Central, West, and South Europe. Nato Advanced Study Institutes Series, vol 22. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1461-8_4
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