Mount Hope Formation
| Mount Hope Formation Stratigraphic range: Early Pleistocene | |
|---|---|
| Type | Formation |
| Lithology | |
| Primary | Limestone |
| Other | Siltstone, mudstone |
| Location | |
| Coordinates | 9°18′N 79°54′W / 9.3°N 79.9°WCoordinates: 9°18′N 79°54′W / 9.3°N 79.9°W |
| Approximate paleocoordinates | 9°18′N 79°36′W / 9.3°N 79.6°W |
| Region | Colón Province |
| Country |  Panama |
| Extent | |
| Type section | |
| Named for | |
  Mount Hope Formation (Panama) | |
The Mount Hope Formation is a geologic formation of the Caribbean mouth of the Panama Canal Zone in Panama. The limestones, mudstones and siltstones preserve bivalve, gastropod (Monoplex comptus)[1] and crustacean fossils dating to the Early Pleistocene.[2] The formation is named after , the burial ground for black West Indian immigrants who died working on the intercontinental Panama Railroad at the Panama Canal for the American Panamanian Railroad Corporation between 1850 and 1855.[3]
See also[]
- List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Panama
References[]
- ^ Beu, 2010, p.151
- ^ Mount Hope Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Mount Hope Cemetery
Bibliography[]
- . 2010. Neogene Tonnoidean Gastropods of Tropical and South America; contributions to the Dominican Republic and Panama Paleontology Projects and Uplift of the Central American Isthmus. Bulletins of American Paleontology 377–378. 1–550. Accessed 2019-02-09.
Further reading[]
- A. P. Brown and H. A. Pilsbry. 1913. Two collections of Pleistocene fossils from the Isthmus of Panama. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences 493–500
- T. W. Vaughan. 1919. Fossil corals from Central America, Cuba, and Porto Rico, with an account of the American Tertiary, Pleistocene, and Recent coral reefs. Smithsonian Institution Bulletin 103:189–524
Categories:
- Geologic formations of Panama
- Pleistocene Panama
- Limestone formations
- Mudstone formations
- Siltstone formations
- Lagoonal deposits
- Reef deposits
- Colón Province
- Panama Canal Zone