Upper Cambrian and Lower Ordovician Trilobite Biostratigraphy of the Rabbitkettle Formation, Western District of Mackenzie

Download or read book Upper Cambrian and Lower Ordovician Trilobite Biostratigraphy of the Rabbitkettle Formation, Western District of Mackenzie written by Rolf Ludvigsen and published by ROM. This book was released on 1982 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two measured sections of the upper Rabbitkettle Formation in the western District of Mackenzie are separated by a thrust fault. These sections provide a record of silicified tribobite faunas across the Cambrian-Ordovician boundary in open marine carbonate rocks along the deeper portion of the shelf - a North American palaeogeographic setting not previously extensively sampled for macrofossils.