Manuels River Formation

Manuels River Formation
Stratigraphic range: Middle Cambrian
Type Formation
Unit of Harcourt Group[1]
Underlies Elliott's Cove Formation
Overlies Chamberlains Brook Formation
Thickness 27.5 m (Random Island)[1]
Location
Country  Canada

Manuels River Formation is a Cambrian geological formation cropping out in the Random Island area of Newfoundland[1] (and elsewhere?). Its black/dark brown, finely laminated mudstones and thicker-bedded siltstones are occasionally interrupted by thin yellowish silty limestone horizons.

Palaeontology

Recorded fossils include Clarella venusta (Billings, 1872) and Hydrocephalus hicksii (Salter, 1864).[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 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.
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