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词条 Rocky Harbour Formation
释义

  1. Facies from top to bottom

  2. Type section

  3. References

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| country = {{Flag|Canada}}
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| map_caption = Occurrence of the Rocky Harbour Formation in southeastern Newfoundland[1]
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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. ^{{Cite web|url=http://geoatlas.gov.nl.ca/Default.htm|title=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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1 : Ediacaran Newfoundland and Labrador

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