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