Abstract
Lower Cambrian rocks are present in a number of scattered outcrops in southeastern Newfoundland. Those considered here are exposed on the southwest side of Conception Bay (north side of the Avalon Peninsula), coastally at Bacon Cove and inland west of the southern end of Colliers Bay, and they belong to the Bonavista Formation, the lowermost of the three Lower Cambrian formations recognized in the region. The type section for this formation is on the northwest side of Smith Sound in the Bonavista maparea, where it has an estimated thickness of 195 m (Hutchinson, 1962). At the Conception Bay localities, however, the Bonavista Formation is represented by a much smaller thickness of sediments, about 15 m (difficult to estimate as partly concealed), which is probably stratigraphically equivalent to the upper part of the sequence at the type locality.
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Edhorn, AS., Anderson, M.M. (1977). Algal Remains in the Lower Cambrian Bonavista Formation, Conception Bay, Southeastern Newfoundland. In: Flügel, E. (eds) Fossil Algae. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-66516-5_12
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