Chapel Island Formation
| 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 |
| Underlies | Random Fm |
| Overlies | Rencontre Fm |
| Thickness | Hundreds of metres |
| 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.