Musgravetown Group Explained

Map:Musgravetown Group map.svg
Type:Group
Period:Ediacaran
Subunits:
Underlies:Bonavista Group (unconformably)
Overlies:Connecting Point Group

The Musgravetown Group is a terminal Ediacaran stratigraphic group of terrestrialish sandstones, lavas and tuffs[1] cropping out in Newfoundland.

It corresponds temporally to the Signal Hill Group further east.

Notes and References

  1. http://www.nr.gov.nl.ca/nr/mines/geoscience/publications/currentresearch/2005/obrien.pdf.
  2. Normore, L.S. (2012). Geology of the Random Island map area (NTS 2C/04), Newfoundland. Curr. Res. Newfoundl. Labrador Dep. Nat. Resour. Geol. Surv. Report 12-, 121–145.