Læså Formation Explained

Period:Lower Cambrian
Type:Geological formation
Subunits:Broens Odde Member, Rispebjerg Member
Overlies:Hardeberga Formation
Thickness:approx. 103m (338feet)
Region:Bornholm

The Læså Formation is a lower Cambrian unit exposed on the Baltic island Bornholm, comprising two members: the lower, the Broens Odde Member, colloquially and previously informally termed "green shales" (Grønne Skifre), a 100 m thick glauconitic silt-sandstone occasionally bearing extremely acritarch-rich phosphatic pebbles;[1] gradually transitioning upwards into the upper, the 3 m thick Rispebjerg Member, a sandstone.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Vidal G. 1981. Lower Cambrian acritarch stratigraphy in Scandinavia. GFF. 103:183–192.
  2. Clausen C.K., Vilhjálmsson M. 1986. Substrate control of lower Cambrian trace fossils from Bornholm, Denmark. Palaeogeogr. …Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecol. 56:51–68.