Sedimentology of Upper Ordovician – Silurian sequences on New World Island, Newfoundland: separate fault-controlled basins?

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Main Author: Arnott, R. J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1983
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; New World Island; Byrne Cove; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e83-033; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e83-033

Remapping of northeast New World Island, Newfoundland demonstrates that two major faults separate three distinct sedimentary sequences, Paleontology and sedimentology indicate that these sequences are partly equivalent in age but were deposited in separate basins of deposition that were adjacent to...