Rabbitkettle Formation Explained

Rabbitkettle Formation
Type:	Formation
Period:	Ordovician
Region:	Yukon
Country:	Canada
Underlies:	Road River Formation Whiterock Formation Sunblood Formation Broken Skull Formation (also laterally equivalent)
Overlies:	Sekwi Formation (unconformably)
Thickness:	750 m

The Rabbitkettle Formation is a geologic formation in the Yukon, comprising thin bedded silty and occasionally siliciclastic limestones deposited in deep (below storm wave base) waters.^{[1] [2]} It preserves fossils dating back to the Ordovician period.

According to ^[2] it:

• Starts in the Late Cambrian; ends in late Tremadoc
• reaches 750m in thickness
• transitional slope facies
• Alternation of black calcareous mudstones and grey, burrowed wackestones

See also

• List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Yukon

References

• Web site: Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database. ((Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database)). 17 December 2021.

Notes and References

1. Pratt . Brian R. . An Ibexian (Early Ordovician) trilobite faunule from the type section of the Rabbitkettle Formation (southern Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories) . Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences . October 1988 . 25 . 10 . 1595–1607 . 10.1139/e88-152.
2. Web site: Early Ordavieian eustatic events in Canada . paleoarchive.com. 21 May 2023.