ABSOLUTE AGE OF THE FISSET BROOK FORMATION AND THE DEVONIAN-MISSISSIPPIAN BOUNDARY, CAPE BRETON ISLAND, NOVA SCOTIA

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Main Authors: Cormier, R. F., Kelly, A. M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1964
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Breton Island
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e64-009; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e64-009

The Fisset Brook formation of sedimentary and volcanic rocks crops out in the Cheticamp area of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Its stratigraphic age has been determined as earliest Mississippian using spores contained in the sedimentary members. A rubidium–strontium age determination using whole-r...