Kwataboahegan Formation
Kwataboahegan Formation Stratigraphic range: Devonian | |
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Type | Formation |
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Overlies | Stooping River Formation |
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Country | Canada |
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The Kwataboahegan Formation is a geologic formation in the Moose River and Hudson Bay basins in northern Ontario, containing fossils from the Lower to Middle Devonian period.[1] It is characterized by brown bituminous stromatoporoid-coral floatstone to bindstone and stromatoporoid-coral-crinoid wackestone-packstone-rudstones, interbedded with light grey, bioclastic wackestone-packstone.[2]
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References[]
- ^ Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". Retrieved 17 December 2021.
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has generic name (help) - ^ Braun, M.; Armstrong, D.K.; Chow, N.; Gouwy, S.A. (2016). "Preliminary Lithostratigraphy, Chemostratigraphy and Lithofacies Analysis of the Devonian Succession, Moose River Basin, Northern Ontario". Ontario Geological Survey Summary of Field Work: 13.
Categories:
- Devonian Ontario
- Devonian southern paleotemperate deposits
- Canadian geologic formation stubs
- Devonian stubs
- Ontario geography stubs