Rocky Harbour Formation

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Rocky Harbour Formation
Stratigraphic range: Ediacaran
TypeFormation
Unit ofMusgravetown Group
Lithology
PrimaryMarine Sediments
Location
Region Newfoundland
Country Canada
Type section
Named byJenness 1963
Rocky Harbour Formation map.svg
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[]

  1. ^ "Newfoundland & Labrador Geoscience Atlas".
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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.
  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 12-1, 121–145.
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