Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction of an Upper Ordovician Rocky Shoreline: The Lindsay Formation of Heywood and Partridge Islands, Ontario

• Main Author: Maheen, Hiba-tul Naseer
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Scholarship@Western 2015
• Subjects: Lindsay Formation; Heywood Island; Middle-to-Late Ordovician; Partridge Island; Rocky Shorelines; Depositional Model; Geology; Heywood
• Online Access: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/2865; https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/context/etd/article/4389/viewcontent/auto_convert.pdf

The islands of Heywood and Partridge, located northeast of Manitoulin Island in Georgian Bay, Ontario, preserve a major unconformity between the Paleoproterozoic Bar River and Lorrain Formation quartz arenite and Upper Ordovician Lindsay Formation carbonate and mudrock. The Lindsay Formation strata...