Beekmantown Group

Beekmantown Group
Stratigraphic range: Lower Ordovician–Middle Ordovician[1]
Type Group
Overlies Potsdam Sandstone
Lithology
Primary dolomitic sandstones and carbonates
Location
Region Eastern North America
Country  United States  Canada

The Beekmantown Group is a lower–middle Ordovician geologic group that occurs in the eastern United States,[2] datable from its conodont fauna. It contains dolomitic sandstones and carbonates from just off land from the palaeocoastline.[3]

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References

  1. ↑ http://archives.datapages.com/data/specpubs/memoir98/CHAPTER22/CHAPTER22.HTM. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. ↑ Hersi, O. S.; Lavoie, D.; Nowlan, G. S. (2003). "Reappraisal of the Beekmantown Group sedimentology and stratigraphy, Montréal area, southwestern Quebec: Implications for understanding the depositional evolution of the Lower-Middle Ordovician Laurentian passive margin of eastern Canada". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 40 (2): 149. doi:10.1139/e02-077.
  3. ↑ http://archives.datapages.com/data/specpubs/memoir98/CHAPTER22/CHAPTER22.HTM. Missing or empty |title= (help)