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Chaudière Falls and inclined Lower to Middle Cambrian strata of St. Nicholas Fm. of the Taconic Chaudière Nappe
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Hopewell Rocks - eroded conglomerate and sandstone of Lower Carboniferous Hopewell Cape Formation
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Confluence of Bonne Bay South and East arms, Long Range Mts. - the northern most part of the Canadian Appalachians
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Bonne Bay - South Arm, Long Range Mts.
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Lookout Trail and Tablelands (right) - last are a piece of upper mantle thrusted on top of the the Laurentian continental margin during the Taconian orogeny
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Gros Morne Mt. - Cambrian quartzite cap of the Labrador Group
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Surprised to find a Short-tailed Swallowtail sitting on the Cambrian quartzite (Papilio brevicauda) on the top of the mountain
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10 Mile Pond from Gros Morne Mt. - cut in the Precambrian / Grenville gneiss and granite of the Canadian shield ~1250- 1000 Ma old
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Glacial lake (tarn) on the Rocky Harbour Hills, Precambrian gneiss & granite
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Long Range Swarm diabase dykes (~605 Ma) emplaced into the Precambrian basement during the opening of the Iapetus Ocean
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Diabase dykes (~605 Ma)
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High waterfall on tilted basement rocks of the Long Range Mts.
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Boat tour on Western Brook Pond - remnant of a fjord cut into the Precambrian Long Range Complex
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A ~500 Ma gap- unconformity between Precambrian crystalline basement to the right ( ~1150 Ma old) and the overlying Iapetus Ocean sediments of the Lower Cambrian Labrador Group (~530 Ma old)
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Clast supported conglomerate in the Upper Cambrian of Green Point Fm.
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Ribbon lime-mudstone on Upper Cambrian of the Green Point Fm.
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Clast supported conglomerate in the Upper Cambrian of Green Point Fm.
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Plate conglomerate in the Green Point Fm.
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Nodular lime-mudstone in Green Point Fm.
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Nodular lime-mudstone in shales of Green Point Fm.
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Nodular and ribbon lime-mudstone in the Upper Cambrian shales of the Green Point Fm.
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Global Stratotype Section for the base of the Ordovician (left to the redish boulder in the background) - Cow Head Group
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Tilted strata of the Green Point Fm. going into the gulf waters
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The Upper Cambrian strata of the Green Point Fm.
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Overturned Upper Cambrian strata of Cow Head Group at Green Point
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Lobster Cove Head Lighthouse- sitting on the Middle Ordovician graywacke of the Lower Head Formation
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Folded strata of the mélange at Lobster Cove Head
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The mélange strata at Lobster Cove Head
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Mélange of shale and ribbon and parted limestone - Middle Ordovician Lobster Cove Member of the Shallow Bay Formation
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Mélange - conglomerate