St. John's Group
| St John's Group | |
|---|---|
| Stratigraphic range: | |
| Type | Group |
| Sub-units | [2]
|
| Underlies | Signal Hill Group[3] |
| Overlies | Conception Group[3] |
| Lithology | |
| Primary | Shale[4] |
| Location | |
| Region | Newfoundland and Labrador |
| Country | Canada |
 Occurrence of St. John's Group in the bedrock of Newfoundland | |
The St John's Group is a fossiliferous shale-dominated Ediacaran geologic group in Newfoundland and Labrador, younger than 565 ± 3 million years ago.[1]
It corresponds to the upper portion of the Connecting Point Group[5]
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ a b Myrow, P (1995). "Neoproterozoic rocks of the Newfoundland Avalon Zone". Precambrian Research. 73 (1–4): 123–136. Bibcode:1995PreR...73..123M. doi:10.1016/0301-9268(94)00074-2.
- ^ O'Brien, S. J.; King, A. F. (2005). "Late neoproterozoic (ediacaran) stratigraphy of avalon zone sedimentary rocks, Bonavista Peninsula, Newfoundland" (PDF). Geological Report.
- ^ a b A.G. Liu; D. McIlroy (September 2014). "Horizontal Surface Traces from the Fermeuse Formation, Ferryland (Newfoundland, Canada), and their Place within the Late Ediacaran Ichnological Revolution" (PDF). Geological Association of Canada - Special Paper (9).[dead link]
- ^ Management plan. Fortune head ecological reserve Archived 14 July 2017 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ A. F. King, S. P. Colman-Sadd; J. P. Hayes (eds.), GEOLOGY OF THE AVALON PENINSULA, NEWFOUNDLAND (parts of 1K, 1L, 1M, 1N and 2C) Map 88-01 (Digital reproduction) (PDF)
- "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
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