Geological setting and depositional environment of the Stirling Group of southeastern Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia

The Stirling Group consists of ca. 680 Ma volcanic and volcaniclastic rocks, interpreted to have been deposited in and around a trough flanked by felsic volcanic centres. The volcaniclastic rocks are dominated by lapilli tuff and tuffaceous litharenite sequences. The lapilli tuffs show some evidence...

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Published in:Atlantic Geology
Main Authors: MacDonald, Alan S., Barr, Sandra M.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Atlantic Geoscience Society 1993
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Online Access:https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/ag/article/view/1996