Post-Ophiolite Unconformity, Tilt Cove – Betts Cove Area, Newfoundland

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Main Authors: Neale, E. R. W., Kean, B. F., Upadhyay, H. D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1975
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Fleur de Lys; Betts Cove; Cape St. John; Tilt Cove; Snooks Arm; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e75-077; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e75-077

Subaerial sediments and silicic and mafic lavas of the Cape St. John Group in northern Newfoundland, were originally interpreted as younger than the Betts Cove ophiolite suite and the Lower Ordovician (Arenig) Snooks Arm pillow lavas and oceanic sediments, but recently have been considered as part o...