Rocky Harbour Formation
Rocky Harbour Formation | |
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Stratigraphic range: Ediacaran PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
Type | Formation |
Unit of | Musgravetown Group |
Lithology | |
Primary | Marine Sediments |
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Type section | |
Named by | Jenness 1963 |
![]() Occurrence of the Rocky Harbour Formation in southeastern Newfoundland[1] |
The Rocky Harbour Formation is a formation cropping out in Newfoundland. Its depositional setting was deltaic, with sediments showing the influence of tides and waves.[2]
Facies from top to bottom
As reported in [3]
- Herring Cove
- Peperite
- Kings Cove Lighthouse
- Purple to pink medium/coarse sandstones with rip-up clasts
- Kings Cove North
- Wave-influenced, light grey/green/yellow fissile siltstone (weathering white); laminated; interbedding with fine ssts.
- Monk Bay
- Dark grey trough-crossbedded and rippled sandstones; poor sorting, coarse to fine grains.
- Cape Bonavista
- Crossbedded coarse pink arkosic sandstones
Type section
Ford's Harbour (previously known (or mapped) as Rocky Harbour).[4]
References
- ^ "Newfoundland & Labrador Geoscience Atlas".
- ^ 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 12-1, 121–145.
- ^ 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 12-1, 121–145.
- ^ 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 12-1, 121–145.
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