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Robert’s Arm BADGER BAY BAY SEAL Wild Bight Sops Arm NORTH TWIN LAKE S O U T H T W I N L A K E C r e s c e n t L a k e Sops Lake Island Gull Kay I. K i ppe n s P o n d Side Harbour Pennys Brook Shoal Arm Brook Tommys Arm River 360 5470000m. N. 5470000m. N. 5470000m. N. 5470000m. N. 5460000m. N 5460000m .N 5480000m. N. 5480000m. N. 5480000m. N 5480000m .N 580000m. W. 580000m. W. 590000m. W. 590000m. W. 590000m. W. 590000m. W. 600000m. W. 600000m. W. 600000m. W. 600000m. W. 5456000m. N. 5456000m. N. 573000m. W 573000m. W 608000m. W. 608000m. W. 5483000m. N. 5483000m. N. 609000m. W. 609000m. W. 5475000m. N. 5475000m. N. 573000m. W. 573000m. 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BADGER GROUP (Unit 27) Gull Island Formation Shoal Arm Formation SOPS HEAD COMPLEX Sparry Limestone: Basalt Flows: Mottled Turbidite and Variegated Chert: Polymictic Conglomerate Black Argillite - Pebbly Mudstone: Massive Wacke: Early Late Ordovician: Late Middle Ordovician to Early Late Ordovician (?): TECTONIZED BLOCK-IN-MATRIX MELANGE UNIT Middle Ordovician to Late Silurian (?): Middle Ordovician: Early to Middle Ordovician (?): Early to Middle Ordovician (?): Early to Middle Ordovician (?): Early to Middle Ordovician (?): Early to Middle Ordovician (?): predominantly thin- and thick-bedded, light-grey sandstone turbidites; minor dark-grey siltstone interbeds (near base of unit); rare beds of cobble conglomerate(with fossiliferous limestone clasts) and pebbly wacke (along part of western flank of Badger Group synclinorium) red radiolarian chert, red laminated argillite and red siliceous siltstone with slump-folded nodules; red and green siltstone rhythmites (containing pyrolusite-bearing horizons) interbedded with turquoise chert; light-grey, thin-bedded to laminated, silicified wacke interbedded with green siliceous argillite; light-green, coticule-bearing, argillaceous laminites and irregularly mottled manganiferous sandstone; light-grey bioturbated chert with rare black shale partings; black graptolitic slate interstratified with very thin beds of pyritic carbonaceous siltstone and dark-grey siliceous argillite dark-grey melange dominated by small polylithic blocks with internal foliations or internal folds; platey, pyrite-rich, black phyllite or pelitic schist (locally forming the matrix of the melange belt or representing an original mudstone-bearing map unit); minor porphyroclastic schist derived from semi-psammite and metabasite; minor red-matrix melange derived from hematitic basalt and protomylonite; minor green-matrix melange derived from chloritic basalt and cataclastite conodont-bearing limestone in stratigraphic contact with various basalt types in discrete volcanic blocks; limestone beds forming solitary carbonate megablocks and smaller olistoliths in melange; limestone clasts resedimented along with monolithic basalt clasts in alternating muddy and calcareous debrites; banded marble interstratified or tectonically interlayered with pyritic black argillite. Similar lithodemes within large limestone clasts in Unit 8. Also in the basal Moores Cove Formation of the Cottrells Cove Group, the Hummock Island Limestone of the Exploits Group, and the Cutwell Group on Long Island. internally fractured, marginally shattered epidotized basalt (injected by green epiclastic wacke - itself impregnated with black mudstone); massive, light-green, fine-grained, silicified basalt (in depositional contact with siliciclastic and calcareous sedimentary strata within map-scale blocks); pillow breccia and hematized basalt (resedimented with jasper and chert in red siliceous debrite); minor olistoliths of basalt breccia (chilled against mudstone) in a matrix of fractured volcaniclastic wacke; the above rock types are seen in the dominantly sand-matrix debrite belts. The dominantly mud-matrix debrite belts display light-green and dark-grey aphanitic basalt (injected by black mudstone) and porphyritic vesicular basalt (augened by featureless black mudstone, or wrapped by partially broken interbeds of pyritic black argillite and dark- grey laminated siltstone, or partly enclosed by black pebbly mudstone). Similar lithodemes in Unit 17. Also in the Pennys Brook Formation of the Wild Bight Group and the Crescent Lake Formation of the Roberts Arm Group. green and grey, parallel- and crosslaminated, rhythmically interbedded, siliceous turbidites with mottled and nodular texture (forming mottled olistoliths within unmottled pebbly mudstone). Minor red, green and grey chert interbedded with laminated siliceous argillite. Similar lithodemes in Unit 15 and Unit 18. thickly stratified, poorly sorted, graded conglomerate beds with distinctive basalt, limestone and granite boulders (partly or completely enclosed by chaotically deformed sandy debrite); small, massive, buff-weathered conglomerate blocks (within muddy debrites); conglomeratic turbidite lenticles (preserving erosive bases above black pyritic argillite and channels within interstratified sandstone turbidites). Similar unbroken lithodemes in Unit 8. sulphidic pebbly mudstone (showing in-situ fragmentation of slumped grey siltstone and black argillite beds); basalt block-in-argillite within conglomerate block-in-argillite within pebbly mudstone or sandy debrite; stratiform intervals of coherently-bedded black argillite (forming a substrate, devoid of chert, to basalt or conglomerate sequences). Similar unbroken lithodemes in Unit 7. buff-weathered, massive, granular wacke completely or partially surrounding polylithic blocks in debrites; minor, partially disaggregated interbeds of light-grey wacke and dark-grey argillite. Unbroken successions of similar wacke (interstratified with thin-bedded sandstone and siltstone) may occur in Unit 6. : BROKEN OLISTOSTROMAL UNITS 27 25 26 24 23 22 21 20 19 interbedded red and green chert; deep-red and bright-red, thin-bedded, laminated argillite; green and grey, medium-bedded, fine-grained, siliceous, sandstone turbidite. In places, Unit 18 is interlayered with Unit 17 or stratigraphically overlies Unit 17. Similar lithodemes occur in the lower Crescent Lake Formation of the Roberts Arm Group, the lower Moores Cove Formation of the Cottrells Cove Group, the lower Strong Island Chert of the Exploits Group, and the lower Shoal Arm Formation (as well as in Late Cambrian(?) to Middle Ordovician units such as the Omega Point Formation of the Wild Bight Group and the Saunders Cove Formation of the Exploits Group). light-green, variably porphyritic, basalt flows; massive, poorly stratified and well- graded basalt breccias ; minor flow-foliated vesicular basalt; rare pillow breccia with epiclastic or calcareous cement; rare, grey aphanitic, mafic to intermediate, volcanic flows thinly bedded, grey, banded, microcrystalline chert interstratified with sulphidic and siliceous, black argillite; minor, buff-weathered, light-grey, netveined and recrystallized chert; these rocks are interlayered with Unit 15 or stratigraphically overlie Unit 15 mottled, green and grey, parallel- and crosslaminated, siliceous turbidites; nodular, fine-grained, thin-bedded, graded sandstone with mud microflakes and sandstone dykelets; rhythmic interbeds of dark-green cherty siltstone and dark-grey banded argillite. Unit 15 underlies and but also overlies Unit 17 and is in depositional contact with Unit 7 and Unit 8; similar lithodemes are present in the upper Pennys Brook Formation of the Wild Bight Group, the lower Shoal Arm Formation, and the upper New Bay Formation of the Exploits Group interbedded bright-red and dark-red chert; maroon, thin-bedded siltstone and siliceous laminated argillite; light-green, medium-bedded, siliceous sandstone; grey-green, medium- to thick-bedded wacke with distinctive jasper, granite and basalt pebbles light-green, massive, aphanitic, vesicular basalt; dark-green, fine-grained, pyroxene-porphyritic basalt; minor, green and red, variably hematized, pillowed basalt with red chert veins (possible thrust slice of Unit 11); rare interstitial red chert and interflow red argillite gabbro sills; unseparated diorite sheets pillow lava and pillow breccia; dark-green, massive, vesicular, variably porphyritic, locally flow-foliated basalt; pillowed basalts with epidote-rich and hematite-rich zones in concentric bands and as veinlets; variably hematized basalt with minor interstitial and interflow red chert light-grey, massive, quartz-phyric felsite; buff to pink, felsic crystal tuff with eutaxitic quartz grains; variably chloritized, felsic lithic tuff (locally containing silicified rock fragments); felsic breccia with subordinate basalt blocks; minor quartz-feldspar porphyry UNBROKEN LITHOSTRATIGRAPHIC UNITS Middle Ordovician (?): Middle Ordovician (?): Middle Ordovician (?): Middle Ordovician (?): Early Middle Ordovician (?): Late Early Ordovician (?): Early or Middle Ordovician (?): Late Early Ordovician (?): Late Early Ordovician(?): [Wild Bight Group / Exploits Group / Roberts Arm Group / Cottrells Cove Group] EARLY TO MIDDLE ORDOVICIAN ROBERTS ARM GROUP Crescent Lake Formation Unseparated terranes/formations 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 LATE CAMBRIAN (?) TO MIDDLE ORDOVICIAN medium-grained equigranular gabbro sills; minor dark-grey diorite sheets; glomeracrystic gabbro and diabase (in places cutting epidotized and saussuritized gabbro) polymictic, cobble-to-boulder, clast-supported conglomerate with well-rounded siliciclastic, calcareous and magmatic clasts; massive, light-grey pebbly wacke; depositional contacts with Unit 6 and Unit 7. Similar lithodemes are also presently assigned to the upper Moores Cove Formation of the Cottrells Cove Group and the upper Crescent Lake Formation of the Roberts Arm Group dark-grey and black, laminated and siliceous, siltstone turbidites; black, pyritic argillite or pyritic slate; minor, light-green, slump-folded sandstone with interbedded or chaotically mixed mudstone thin interbeds of light green sandstone and dark grey siltstone; minor, light grey, medium-bedded granular wacke; rare, dark-grey and black sulphidic argillite; all the rocks are siliceous and highly indurated thin-bedded, green and grey, variably mottled, concretionary turbidites; thin- and thick-bedded, grey-green sandstone with imbricated rip-up clasts of slump-folded banded argillite grading to parallel-laminated sandstone; thickly-stratified, dark-green, tuffaceous wacke with predominant vesicular basalt and subordinate intermediate to felsic volcanic clasts; massive to thickly bedded epiclastic wacke with mixed sedimentary and volcanic clasts; minor pebbly wacke with distinctive jasper and red argillite clasts. 5a; laterally discontinuous lenticles of pillow lava, pillow breccia and massive vesicular basalt breccia; associated sand-matrix olistostromes and choatically slumped mixtites with various volcanic and sedimentary intraclasts dark-green, porphyritic pillow lava with some interstitial chert; minor, thin- bedded light-green, graded sandstone and light-grey, parallel-laminated argillite; rare gabbro sills; rare beds of mafic and possibly felsic tuff red, massive to thickly stratified, poorly sorted gravel beds with sub- rounded cobbles and boulders of hematized volcanic and intrusive rocks; chaotically slumped debrite and red conglomeratic wacke; red chert, red siliceous argillite and hematitic banded iron formation; interbedded, red and green, parallel- and crosslaminated siltstone turbidites; dark grey shale; light grey, thickly stratified, polymictic, conglomeratic turbidite Variably hematized vesicular basalt; red and green, pillow lava and pillow breccia; minor, mafic lithic tuff; rare, red, interpillow argillite; rare diorite sills buff-weathered, flow-banded rhyolite breccia; massive, pyritized and hematized rhyolite; dark-green pillow lava and basalt breccia; mixed mafic - felsic volcanic breccia; minor, chloritic lithic tuff; minor, light-green, quartz-phyric crystal tuff; rare, purplish-red rhyolite dykes; rare, light-grey, crosslaminated sandstone ORDOVICIAN INTRUSIVE ROCKS Gummy Brook Gabbro EXPLOITS GROUP New Bay Formation WILD BIGHT GROUP Pennys Brook Formation Sparrow Cove Formation Omega Point Formation Side Harbour Formation Seal Bay Brook Formation Middle Ordovician (?): Late Early Ordovician: Late Early Ordovician (?): Late Early Ordovician (?): Early Middle to Late Middle Ordovician: Early to Middle Ordovician (?): Early to Middle Ordovician (?): Late Cambrian (?) to Early Ordovician: Late Cambrian (?) to Early Ordovician: 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 5a MAP 2000-06 OPEN FILE 002E/05/1073 GEOLOGY OF THE BADGER BAY REGION (NTS 2E/5), WESTERN NOTRE DAME BAY LEGEND GOVERNMENT OF NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR Department of Mines and Energy Geological Survey 0 1 2 3 4 5 kilometres Scale 1:50 000 2L 12I 12B 12B 2D 1N 1N 60° 52° 51° 50° 49° 48° 47° 51° 50° 49° 48° 47° 7 58° 56° 54° 58° 56° 54° 12H 12A 1M 1M 2E 2E 2M 2C 2C 1K 11P 11O 2F St. Anthony Port aux Basques Deer Lake Stephenville Stephenville Grand Falls Gander St. John's J 12G Labrador 1L 11I NEWFOUNDLAND 0 150 km 50 100 INDEX MAP 12P 12P Corner Brook Corner Brook Exposure location ................................................................................ Strike and dip of bedding (tops known) ............................................... Strike and dip of bedding (tops unknown) ........................................... Strike and dip of bedding (overturned) ................................................ Stratigraphic boundary or intrusive contact (approximate) .................. Pseudoporphyroblast-bearing alteration zone ..................................... Anticline [locally neutral or synformal] with plunge direction indicated (upright, overturned) ............................................................ Syncline [locally neutral or antiformal] with plunge direction indicated (upright, overturned) ........................... Reverse faults [relative age unspecified] (barbs drawn on original hangingwall sequence) ........................................................... Strike-slip component of fault movement (sinistral, dextral) ................ Cross fault (post-thrusting and folding) ................................................ Note: Only selected bedding symbols shown on map; other measurements on minor structures are omitted. Bedding symbols are offset in position from exposure location. SYMBOLS T T ccc bbh ccc bbh Recommended Citation

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LATE ORDOVICIAN

MIDDLE AND LATE ORDOVICIAN

MIDDLE ORDOVICIAN (?)

BADGER GROUP (Unit 27)Gull Island Formation

Shoal Arm Formation

SOPS HEAD COMPLEX

Sparry Limestone:

Basalt Flows:

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Polymictic Conglomerate

Black Argillite - Pebbly Mudstone:

Massive Wacke:

Early Late Ordovician:

Late Middle Ordovician to Early Late Ordovician (?):

TECTONIZED BLOCK-IN-MATRIX MELANGE UNITMiddle Ordovician to Late Silurian (?):

Middle Ordovician:

Early to Middle Ordovician (?):

Early to Middle Ordovician (?):

Early to Middle Ordovician (?):

Early to Middle Ordovician (?):

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predominantly thin- and thick-bedded, light-grey sandstone turbidites; minordark-grey siltstone interbeds (near base of unit); rare beds of cobble conglomerate(with fossiliferouslimestone clasts) and pebbly wacke (along part of western flank of Badger Group synclinorium)

red radiolarian chert, red laminated argilliteand red siliceous siltstone with slump-folded nodules; red and green siltstone rhythmites (containingpyrolusite-bearing horizons) interbedded with turquoise chert; light-grey, thin-bedded to laminated,silicified wacke interbedded with green siliceous argillite; light-green, coticule-bearing, argillaceouslaminites and irregularly mottled manganiferous sandstone; light-grey bioturbated chert with rare blackshale partings; black graptolitic slate interstratified with very thin beds of pyritic carbonaceous siltstoneand dark-grey siliceous argillite

dark-grey melange dominated by small polylithic blockswith internal foliations or internal folds; platey, pyrite-rich, black phyllite or pelitic schist (locally formingthe matrix of the melange belt or representing an original mudstone-bearing map unit); minorporphyroclastic schist derived from semi-psammite and metabasite; minor red-matrix melange derivedfrom hematitic basalt and protomylonite; minor green-matrix melange derived from chloritic basalt andcataclastite

conodont-bearing limestone in stratigraphic contact with

various basalt types in discrete volcanic blocks; limestone beds forming solitary carbonate megablocksand smaller olistoliths in melange; limestone clasts resedimented along with monolithic basalt clasts inalternating muddy and calcareous debrites; banded marble interstratified or tectonically interlayered withpyritic black argillite. Similar lithodemes within large limestone clasts in Unit 8. Also in the basal MooresCove Formation of the Cottrells Cove Group, the Hummock Island Limestone of the Exploits Group, andthe Cutwell Group on Long Island.

internally fractured, marginally shattered

epidotized basalt (injected by green epiclastic wacke - itself impregnated with black mudstone);massive, light-green, fine-grained, silicified basalt (in depositional contact with siliciclastic andcalcareous sedimentary strata within map-scale blocks); pillow breccia and hematized basalt(resedimented with jasper and chert in red siliceous debrite); minor olistoliths of basalt breccia (chilledagainst mudstone) in a matrix of fractured volcaniclastic wacke; the above rock types are seen in thedominantly sand-matrix debrite belts. The dominantly mud-matrix debrite belts display light-green anddark-grey aphanitic basalt (injected by black mudstone) and porphyritic vesicular basalt (augened byfeatureless black mudstone, or wrapped by partially broken interbeds of pyritic black argillite and dark-grey laminated siltstone, or partly enclosed by black pebbly mudstone). Similar lithodemes in Unit 17.Also in the Pennys Brook Formation of the Wild Bight Group and the Crescent Lake Formation of theRoberts Arm Group.

green and grey,

parallel- and crosslaminated, rhythmically interbedded, siliceous turbidites with mottled and nodulartexture (forming mottled olistoliths within unmottled pebbly mudstone). Minor red, green and grey chertinterbedded with laminated siliceous argillite. Similar lithodemes in Unit 15 and Unit 18.

thickly stratified, poorly sorted,

graded conglomerate beds with distinctive basalt, limestone and granite boulders (partly or completelyenclosed by chaotically deformed sandy debrite); small, massive, buff-weathered conglomerate blocks(within muddy debrites); conglomeratic turbidite lenticles (preserving erosive bases above black pyriticargillite and channels within interstratified sandstone turbidites). Similar unbroken lithodemes in Unit 8.

sulphidic pebbly mudstone

(showing in-situ fragmentation of slumped grey siltstone and black argillite beds); basalt block-in-argillitewithin conglomerate block-in-argillite within pebbly mudstone or sandy debrite; stratiform intervals ofcoherently-bedded black argillite (forming a substrate, devoid of chert, to basalt or conglomeratesequences). Similar unbroken lithodemes in Unit 7.

buff-weathered, massive, granular wacke

completely or partially surrounding polylithic blocks in debrites; minor, partially disaggregated interbedsof light-grey wacke and dark-grey argillite. Unbroken successions of similar wacke (interstratified withthin-bedded sandstone and siltstone) may occur in Unit 6.

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BROKEN OLISTOSTROMAL UNITS

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25

26

24

23

22

21

20

19

interbedded red and green chert; deep-red and bright-red, thin-bedded,laminated argillite; green and grey, medium-bedded, fine-grained, siliceous, sandstone turbidite. Inplaces, Unit 18 is interlayered with Unit 17 or stratigraphically overlies Unit 17. Similar lithodemes occurin the lower Crescent Lake Formation of the Roberts Arm Group, the lower Moores Cove Formation ofthe Cottrells Cove Group, the lower Strong Island Chert of the Exploits Group, and the lower Shoal ArmFormation (as well as in Late Cambrian(?) to Middle Ordovician units such as the Omega PointFormation of the Wild Bight Group and the Saunders Cove Formation of the Exploits Group).

light-green, variably porphyritic, basalt flows; massive, poorly stratified and well-graded basalt breccias ; minor flow-foliated vesicular basalt; rare pillow breccia with epiclastic orcalcareous cement; rare, grey aphanitic, mafic to intermediate, volcanic flows

thinly bedded, grey, banded, microcrystalline chert interstratified with sulphidicand siliceous, black argillite; minor, buff-weathered, light-grey, netveined and recrystallized chert; theserocks are interlayered with Unit 15 or stratigraphically overlie Unit 15

mottled, green and grey, parallel- and crosslaminated, siliceous turbidites;nodular, fine-grained, thin-bedded, graded sandstone with mud microflakes and sandstone dykelets;rhythmic interbeds of dark-green cherty siltstone and dark-grey banded argillite. Unit 15 underlies andbut also overlies Unit 17 and is in depositional contact with Unit 7 and Unit 8; similar lithodemes arepresent in the upper Pennys Brook Formation of the Wild Bight Group, the lower Shoal Arm Formation,and the upper New Bay Formation of the Exploits Group

interbedded bright-red and dark-red chert; maroon, thin-bedded siltstoneand siliceous laminated argillite; light-green, medium-bedded, siliceous sandstone; grey-green, medium-to thick-bedded wacke with distinctive jasper, granite and basalt pebbles

light-green, massive, aphanitic, vesicular basalt; dark-green, fine-grained,pyroxene-porphyritic basalt; minor, green and red, variably hematized, pillowed basalt with red chertveins (possible thrust slice of Unit 11); rare interstitial red chert and interflow red argillite

gabbro sills; unseparated diorite sheets

pillow lava and pillow breccia; dark-green, massive, vesicular, variablyporphyritic, locally flow-foliated basalt; pillowed basalts with epidote-rich and hematite-rich zones inconcentric bands and as veinlets; variably hematized basalt with minor interstitial and interflow red chert

light-grey, massive, quartz-phyric felsite; buff to pink, felsic crystal tuff witheutaxitic quartz grains; variably chloritized, felsic lithic tuff (locally containing silicified rock fragments);felsic breccia with subordinate basalt blocks; minor quartz-feldspar porphyry

UNBROKEN LITHOSTRATIGRAPHIC UNITS

Middle Ordovician (?):

Middle Ordovician (?):

Middle Ordovician (?):

Middle Ordovician (?):

Early Middle Ordovician (?):

Late Early Ordovician (?):

Early or Middle Ordovician (?):

Late Early Ordovician (?):

Late Early Ordovician(?):

[Wild Bight Group / Exploits Group / Roberts Arm Group / Cottrells Cove Group]

EARLY TO MIDDLE ORDOVICIANROBERTS ARM GROUP

Crescent Lake Formation

Unseparated terranes/formations

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LATE CAMBRIAN (?) TO MIDDLE ORDOVICIAN

medium-grained equigranular gabbro sills; minor dark-grey diorite sheets;glomeracrystic gabbro and diabase (in places cutting epidotized and saussuritized gabbro)

polymictic, cobble-to-boulder, clast-supported conglomerate with well-roundedsiliciclastic, calcareous and magmatic clasts; massive, light-grey pebbly wacke; depositional contactswith Unit 6 and Unit 7. Similar lithodemes are also presently assigned to the upper Moores CoveFormation of the Cottrells Cove Group and the upper Crescent Lake Formation of the Roberts Arm Group

dark-grey and black, laminated and siliceous, siltstone turbidites; black,pyritic argillite or pyritic slate; minor, light-green, slump-folded sandstone with interbedded or chaoticallymixed mudstone

thin interbeds of light green sandstone and dark grey siltstone; minor, lightgrey, medium-bedded granular wacke; rare, dark-grey and black sulphidic argillite; all the rocks aresiliceous and highly indurated

thin-bedded, green and grey, variably mottled, concretionaryturbidites; thin- and thick-bedded, grey-green sandstone with imbricated rip-up clasts of slump-foldedbanded argillite grading to parallel-laminated sandstone; thickly-stratified, dark-green, tuffaceous wackewith predominant vesicular basalt and subordinate intermediate to felsic volcanic clasts; massive tothickly bedded epiclastic wacke with mixed sedimentary and volcanic clasts; minor pebbly wacke withdistinctive jasper and red argillite clasts. 5a; laterally discontinuous lenticles of pillow lava, pillowbreccia and massive vesicular basalt breccia; associated sand-matrix olistostromes and choaticallyslumped mixtites with various volcanic and sedimentary intraclasts

dark-green, porphyritic pillow lava with some interstitial chert; minor, thin-bedded light-green, graded sandstone and light-grey, parallel-laminated argillite; rare gabbro sills; rarebeds of mafic and possibly felsic tuff

red, massive to thickly stratified, poorly sorted gravel beds with sub-rounded cobbles and boulders of hematized volcanic and intrusive rocks; chaotically slumped debriteand red conglomeratic wacke; red chert, red siliceous argillite and hematitic banded iron formation;interbedded, red and green, parallel- and crosslaminated siltstone turbidites; dark grey shale; light grey,thickly stratified, polymictic, conglomeratic turbidite

Variably hematized vesicular basalt; red and green, pillow lavaand pillow breccia; minor, mafic lithic tuff; rare, red, interpillow argillite; rare diorite sills

buff-weathered, flow-banded rhyolite breccia; massive, pyritizedand hematized rhyolite; dark-green pillow lava and basalt breccia; mixed mafic - felsic volcanic breccia;minor, chloritic lithic tuff; minor, light-green, quartz-phyric crystal tuff; rare, purplish-red rhyolite dykes;rare, light-grey, crosslaminated sandstone

ORDOVICIAN INTRUSIVE ROCKSGummy Brook Gabbro

EXPLOITS GROUPNew Bay Formation

WILD BIGHT GROUPPennys Brook Formation

Sparrow Cove Formation

Omega Point Formation

Side Harbour Formation

Seal Bay Brook Formation

Middle Ordovician (?):

Late Early Ordovician:

Late Early Ordovician (?):

Late Early Ordovician (?):

Early Middle to Late Middle Ordovician:

Early to Middle Ordovician (?):

Early to Middle Ordovician (?):

Late Cambrian (?) to Early Ordovician:

Late Cambrian (?) to Early Ordovician:

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GEOLOGY OF THE BADGER BAY REGION (NTS 2E/5),

WESTERN NOTRE DAME BAY

LEGEND

GOVERNMENT OFNEWFOUNDLANDAND LABRADOR

Department ofMines and Energy

Geological Survey

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