Mount Hope Formation

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Mount Hope Formation
Stratigraphic range: Early Pleistocene
Type Formation
Lithology
Primary Limestone
Other Siltstone, mudstone
Location
Coordinates 9°18′N79°54′W / 9.3°N 79.9°W / 9.3; -79.9
Approximate paleocoordinates 9°18′N79°36′W / 9.3°N 79.6°W / 9.3; -79.6
Region Colón Province
CountryFlag of Panama.svg  Panama
Extent Panama Basin
Type section
Named for Mount Hope Cemetery
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Mount Hope Formation (Panama)

The Mount Hope Formation is a geologic formation of the Caribbean mouth of the Panama Canal Zone in Panama. The limestones, mudstones and siltstones preserve bivalve, gastropod ( Monoplex comptus ) [1] and crustacean fossils dating to the Early Pleistocene. [2] The formation is named after Mount Hope Cemetery, the burial ground for black West Indian immigrants who died working on the intercontinental Panama Railroad at the Panama Canal for the American Panamanian Railroad Corporation between 1850 and 1855. [3]

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