Geology of Cambro-Ordovician carbonate shelf and coeval off-shelf rocks, southwest of Corner Brook, Western Newfoundland / I. Knight.

Geology of Cambro-Ordovician carbonate shelf and coeval off-shelf rocks, southwest of Corner Brook, Western Newfoundland / I. Knight.

By
Knight, Ian.

Publication Date
1996

Publication Information
St. John's, N.L. : Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Dept. of Natural Resources, Geological Survey,

Volume
2602

Physical Description
38 p. : maps.

Subject Term
Geology -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Corner Brook.
 
Geology, Stratigraphic -- Cambrian.

Series
OPEN FILE NEWFOUNDLAND ;

Summary
Low-grade metamorphosed sedimentary rocks south-west of Corner Brook, Newfoundland, form part of a complex foreland fold-and-thrust belt that deformed lower Palaeozoic rocks of the Laurentian margin. Cambro-Ordovician carbonate shelf rocks and coeval deeper-water rocks of the Pinchgut Lake group were carried together north-westward on a major thrust above terrigenous foreland-basin rocks. Mapping outlines a major, northeast-trending and plunging antiformal stack lying between the Humber Arm Allochthon to the west and higher grade metasedimentary and basement-cover domains to the east. This report describes the lithostratigraphy of the carbonate sequence and the Pinchgut Lake group, details the main structural elements of the area, compares the area to other map areas of western Newfoundland, and discusses both lithostratigraphic and structural implications. Finally, it documents the economic potential of the area, focusing on the area's significant variety of marbles.

Language
English

ISBN
[n/a]


LibraryCollectionCollectionCall Number
St. John's - A.C. HunterFolder NL - Prov CollFolder NL - Provincial Collection557.18 K74
St. John's - A.C. HunterFolder NL - VaultFolder NL - Vault557.18 K74