Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Late Proterozoic Rock Harbour Group, Flat Islands, Placentia Bay, Newfoundland Avalon Zone

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Main Author: Hiscott, Richard N.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1981
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Flat Islands; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e81-043; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e81-043

The Late Proterozoic Rock Harbour Group, as exposed on the Flat Islands, Placentia Bay, consists of a 700 m thick fining-upward sequence of deep-water conglomerates, pebbly sandstones, and thinly-bedded siltstones, capped by a chaotic olistostrome. This sequence rests unconformably on sediments and...