Kwataboahegan Formation Explained

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]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database. ((Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database)). 17 December 2021. dmy-all.
  2. Braun. M.. Armstrong. D.K.. Chow. N.. Gouwy. S.A.. 2016. Preliminary Lithostratigraphy, Chemostratigraphy and Lithofacies Analysis of the Devonian Succession, Moose River Basin, Northern Ontario. Ontario Geological Survey Summary of Field Work. 13.