Chamberlain's Brook Formation

Chamberlain's Brook Formation
Stratigraphic range: 509–506 Ma (Middle Cambrian)

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Type	Formation
Unit of	Adeyton Group[1]
Sub-units	Fossil Brook Member (and others)
Underlies	Manuels River Formation (unconformably?)[2]
Thickness	up to 14 m[2]
Lithology
Primary	Green, purple and red siliciclastic marine mudstones[2]
Location
Region	Atlantic coast
Country	United States Canada
	; Occurrence of the Chamberlain's Brook Formation in southeastern Newfoundland

The Chamberlain's Brook Formation is a thin but distinctive geologic formation of dark red calcareous mudstones^[3] that crops out from Rhode Island to Massachusetts and, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Newfoundland.^[2] It preserves fossils, including trilobites, dating back to the lower mid-Cambrian period.^[2] Its lowermost member is the Braintree Member (lowest Middle Cambrian) and the uppermost member is the Fossil Brook Member.^[2]

References

↑ Terrence Patrick Fletcher (2006). Bedrock Geology of the Cap St. Mary's Peninsula. Southwest Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland (PDF). St. John's Newfoundland: Department of Natural Resources Geological Survey Newfoundland Labrador. ISBN 1-55146-031-9.
1 2 3 4 5 6 Kim, Dong HEE; Westrop, Stephen R.; Landing, ED (2002). "Middle Cambrian (Acadian Series) Conocoryphid and Paradoxidid Trilobites from the Upper Chamberlain's Brook Formation, Newfoundland and New Brunswick". Journal of Paleontology. 76 (5): 822. doi:10.1666/0022-3360(2002)076<0822:MCASCA>2.0.CO;2.
↑ Normore, L. S. 2012: GEOLOGY OF THE RANDOM ISLAND MAP AREA (Nts 2C/04), Newfoundland. Current Research (2012) Newfoundland and Labrador Department of Natural Resources Geological Survey Report 12-:121–145.

Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". Archived from the original on 31 July 2014. Retrieved 30 June 2014.

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