Rocky Harbour Formation

The Rocky Harbour Formation is a formation cropping out in Newfoundland. Its depositional setting was deltaic, with sediments showing the influence of tides and waves.[2]

Rocky Harbour Formation
Stratigraphic range: Ediacaran
TypeFormation
Unit ofMusgravetown Group
Lithology
PrimaryMarine Sediments
Location
Region Newfoundland
Country Canada
Type section
Named byJenness 1963

Occurrence of the Rocky Harbour Formation in southeastern Newfoundland[1]

Facies from top to bottom

As reported in [3]

  • Herring Cove
Peperite
  • Kings Cove Lighthouse
Purple to pink medium/coarse sandstones with rip-up clasts
  • Kings Cove North
Wave-influenced, light grey/green/yellow fissile siltstone (weathering white); laminated; interbedding with fine ssts.
  • Monk Bay
Dark grey trough-crossbedded and rippled sandstones; poor sorting, coarse to fine grains.
  • Cape Bonavista
Crossbedded coarse pink arkosic sandstones

Type section

Ford's Harbour (previously known (or mapped) as Rocky Harbour).[4]

References
  1. "Newfoundland & Labrador Geoscience Atlas".
  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 12-1, 121–145.
  3. 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 12-1, 121–145.
  4. 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 12-1, 121–145.
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