| Chapel Island Formation | |
|---|---|
| Stratigraphic range: | |
 Ediacaran–Cambrian boundary section at Fortune Head, Newfoundland, in the Chapel Island Formation. The darker units constituting the bottom 2–3 m of the outcrop correspond to Unit 1; the GSSP lies a couple of meters into Unit 2. | |
| Type | Formation |
| Unit of | Young's Cove Group[2] |
| Underlies | Random Fm[3] |
| Overlies | Rencontre Fm[3] |
| Thickness | Hundreds of metres[3] |
| Location | |
| Region | Newfoundland |
| Country | Canada |
 Outcrop distribution in southeast Newfoundland | |
The Chapel Island Formation is a sedimentary formation from the Burin Peninsula, Newfoundland, Canada. It is a succession of siliciclastic deposits, over 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) thick, that were deposited during the latest Ediacaran and earliest Cambrian.
- ^ Gehling, James G.; Jensen, Sören; Droser, Mary L.; Myrow, Paul M.; Narbonne, Guy M. (2001). "Burrowing below the basal Cambrian GSSP, Fortune Head, Newfoundland" (PDF). Geological Magazine. 138 (2): 213–218. Bibcode:2001GeoM..138..213G. doi:10.1017/S001675680100509X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 October 2014. Retrieved 3 November 2012.
- ^ "Newfoundland and Labrador Geoscience Atlas".
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