Unit Name: Aguathuna formation
Unit Type: Lithostratigraphic
Rank: Formation
Status: Informal
Usage: Currently in use
Age Interval: Early Ordovician (485.4 - 470 ma)
Province/Territory: Newfoundland & Labrador

Originator: James et al., 1980

Type Locality:
Newfoundland.

History:
Formerly termed the Aguathuna limestone (Weller et al., 1948).

References:
James, N.P., Klappa, C.F., Skevington, D., and Stevens, R.K., 1980. Trip 13: Cambro-Ordovician of west Newfoundland - sediments and faunas: Field Trip Guidebook, Annual Meeting, Geological and Mineralogical Associations of Canada, Halifax, 88 p.
Weller, James Marvin, Bell, Walter Andrew, Caster, Kenneth Edward, Cooper, Chalmer Lewis, Stockdale, Paris Buell, and Sutton, Arle Herbert, 1948. Correlation of the Mississippian formations of North America [Chart no. 5]; The Geological Society of America (GSA), GSA Bulletin, vol. 59, no. 2 (February), pp. 91-106.

Source: CSPG Lexicon of Canadian Stratigraphy, Volume 6, Atlantic Canada; G.L. Williams, L.R. Fyffe, R.J. Wardle, S.P. Colman-Sadd, Boehner, R.C. (editor)
Entry Reviewed: Yes
Name Set: Lithostratigraphic Lexicon
LastChange: 11 Feb 2009