Allochthonous slope sequence at Lobster Cove Head: evidence for a complex Middle Ordovician platform margin in western Newfoundland

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Main Authors: James, Noel P., Botsford, Jack W., Williams, S. Henry
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1987
• Subjects: Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e87-115; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e87-115

The upper part of an intact sequence of Lower to Middle Ordovician deep-water sediments, which now form a large, disrupted raft within the Rocky Harbour Mélange at Lobster Cove Head, is interpreted as having been deposited downslope from a drowned carbonate platform margin. The entire 50 m thick sec...