The stratigraphy of the Lower Ordovician St. George Group, western Newfoundland: the interaction between eustasy and tectonics

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Main Authors: Knight, Ian, James, Noel P.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1987
• Subjects: Barbace Cove; Boat Harbour; Watts Bight; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e87-185; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e87-185

The St. George Group is a ~500 m thick sequence of carbonate rock that accumulated during Early and early Middle Ordovician time in a series of shallow subtidal and peritidal environments near the outer edge of a low-latitude continental margin. Lithological variations, in the form of two megacycles...