Earth:Musgravetown Group

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Musgravetown Group
Stratigraphic range: Ediacaran
TypeGroup
Sub-units
  • Crown Hill Formation

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  • Rocky Harbour Formation

(in Random Island map area[1]) |

  • Trinny Cove Fm

|

(on Cape St Mary's Peninsula[2])

  • Maturin Ponds Fm
  • Big Head Fm
  • Bull Arm Formation[3][4]
UnderliesBonavista Group (unconformably)
OverliesConnecting Point Group
Location
Region Newfoundland
Country Canada

Occurrence of the Musgravetown Group in southeastern Newfoundland

The Musgravetown Group is a terminal Ediacaran stratigraphic group of terrestrialish sandstones, lavas and tuffs[3] cropping out in Newfoundland.

It corresponds temporally to the Signal Hill Group further east.

References

  1. ↑ Myrow, P (1995). "Neoproterozoic rocks of the Newfoundland Avalon Zone". Precambrian Research 73 (1–4): 123–136. doi:10.1016/0301-9268(94)00074-2. Bibcode: 1995PreR...73..123M. 
  2. ↑ . http://www.nr.gov.nl.ca/nr/mines/geoscience/publications/report06_02.pdf. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 . http://www.nr.gov.nl.ca/nr/mines/geoscience/publications/currentresearch/2005/obrien.pdf. 
  4. ↑ Normore, L.S. (2012). Geology of the Random Island map area (NTS 2C/04), Newfoundland. Curr. Res. Newfoundl. Labrador Dep. Nat. Resour. Geol. Surv. Report 12-, 121–145.




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