Mount Hope Formation

{{Short description|Geologic formation in Panama}}

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| type = Formation

| age = Early Pleistocene

| period = Pleistocene

| prilithology = Limestone

| otherlithology = Siltstone, mudstone

| namedfor = Mount Hope Cemetery

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| region = Colón Province

| country = Panama

| coordinates = {{coord|9.3|N|79.9|W|display=inline,title}}

| paleocoordinates = {{coord|9.3|N|79.6|W|display=inline}}

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| extent = Panama Basin

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| lat_deg = 9.3

| lon_deg = -79.9

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The Mount Hope Formation is a geologic formation of the Caribbean mouth of the Panama Canal Zone in Panama. The limestones, mudstones and siltstones preserve bivalve, gastropod (Monoplex comptus)Beu, 2010, p.151 and crustacean fossils dating to the Early Pleistocene.[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayStrata?geological_group=&formation=Mount%20Hope&group_formation_member=Mount%20Hope Mount Hope Formation] at Fossilworks.org The formation is named after Mount Hope Cemetery, the burial ground for black West Indian immigrants who died working on the intercontinental Panama Railroad at the Panama Canal for the American Panamanian Railroad Corporation between 1850 and 1855.[https://www.wmf.org/project/mount-hope-cemetery Mount Hope Cemetery]