Young's Cove Group

Young's Cove Group
Young's Cove Group
Stratigraphic range: 550–Early Cambrian Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Occurrence of Young's Cove Group in southeastern Newfoundland
Type	Group
Sub-units	Random Formation; Chapel Island Formation; Rencontre Formation (sometimes placed in Long Harbour Group);
Location
Region	Newfoundland and Labrador
Country	Canada

Young's Cove Group is a stratigraphic group covering the Ediacaran-Cambrian boundary (in the Chapel Island Formation, cropping out on the Burin Peninsula and elsewhere in Newfoundland.

The Rencontre Formation is sometime included in this group^{[verification needed]}, sometimes in the Long Harbour Group. That formation overlies volcanic rocks dated to 552 ± 2 million years ago.^[1]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b Myrow, P (1995). "Neoproterozoic rocks of the Newfoundland Avalon Zone". Precambrian Research. 73 (1–4): 123–136. Bibcode:1995PreR...73..123M. doi:10.1016/0301-9268(94)00074-2.

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