Geology in the border triangle Germany - Belgium - Netherlands: An overview of the field trips

The excursion program provides a comprehensive overview on the geology around Aachen by field trips covering Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. The thick Devonian beds of the Eifel basin, the Lower Paleozoic sedimentary rocks of the Stavelot-Venn anticlinorium and the Upper Paleozoic siliciclastics and carbonate rocks of the Eifelvorland are presented along traverses from southeast to northwest. Together with the overlying Aachen-Maastricht Chalk Platform and Cenozoic sediments, the Aachen region provides a diversity of sediments and sedimentary rocks, which were used from the Stone Ages until today.