Ordovician volcanism and mineralization in the Wild Bight group, central Newfoundland: a geological, petrological, geochemical and isotopic study

• Main Author: Swinden, H. S.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Memorial University of Newfoundland 1987
• Subjects: Clear Island; Notre Dame Bay; Wild Bight; Newfoundland
• Online Access: https://research.library.mun.ca/6780/; https://research.library.mun.ca/6780/1/HaroldScottSwinden_1.pdf; https://research.library.mun.ca/6780/3/HaroldScottSwinden_1.pdf

The Wild Bight Group, part of the Newfoundland Dunnage Zone or Central Mobile Belt, is a thick (probably more than 8 km.) sequence of dominantly epiclastic (~75%) and lesser volcanic (~25%) rocks which outcrops in and to the south of central Notre Dame Bay. The base of the group is not exposed. It p...