Kwataboahegan Formation

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Kwataboahegan Formation
Stratigraphic range: Devonian
TypeFormation
Underlies
OverliesStooping River Formation
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Region
Country Canada
Type section
Named for

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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  1. ^ Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". Retrieved 17 December 2021. {{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  2. ^ 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.


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