Kwataboahegan Formation | |
Type: | Formation |
Age: | Devonian |
Period: | Devonian |
Namedfor: | Kwataboahegan River |
Region: | Moose River Basin Hudson Bay Basin |
Underlies: | Moose River Formation |
Overlies: | Stooping River Formation |
The Kwataboahegan Formation is a geologic formation in the Moose River and Hudson Bay basins in northern Ontario, containing fossils from the Lower to Middle Devonian period.[1] It is characterized by brown bituminous stromatoporoid-coral floatstone to bindstone and stromatoporoid-coral-crinoid wackestone-packstone-rudstones, interbedded with light grey, bioclastic wackestone-packstone.[2]