Kwataboahegan Formation

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Kwataboahegan Formation
Stratigraphic range: Devonian
Type Formation
Underlies Moose River Formation
Overlies Stooping River Formation
Location
Region Moose River Basin Hudson Bay Basin
Country Canada
Type section
Named for Kwataboahegan River

The Kwataboahegan Formation is a geologic formation in the Moose River and Hudson Bay basins in northern Ontario, containing fossils from the Lower to Middle Devonian period. [1] It is characterized by brown bituminous stromatoporoid-coral floatstone to bindstone and stromatoporoid-coral-crinoid wackestone-packstone-rudstones, interbedded with light grey, bioclastic wackestone-packstone. [2]

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References

  1. ↑ Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". Archived from the original on 19 August 2022. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  2. ↑ Braun, M.; Armstrong, D.K.; Chow, N.; Gouwy, S.A. (2016). "Preliminary Lithostratigraphy, Chemostratigraphy and Lithofacies Analysis of the Devonian Succession, Moose River Basin, Northern Ontario". Ontario Geological Survey Summary of Field Work: 13.


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