The stratigraphy and depositional environment of the Aphebian Snyder Group, Labrador

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Main Author: Speer, J. Alexander
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1978
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Snyder; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e78-005; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e78-005

The Snyder Group is an Aphebian sedimentary sequence unconformably overlying Archean rocks that has undergone deformation and a medium to high grade contact metamorphism as the result of the emplacement of the Elsonian Kiglapait intrusion. Five lithostratigraphic units totaling 239 m in thickness ha...