Musgravetown Group

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| map= Musgravetown Group map.svg

| map_caption = Occurrence of the Musgravetown Group in southeastern Newfoundland

| type = Group

| period = Ediacaran

| age = {{Fossil range|Ediacaran}}

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| country = {{Flag|Canada}}

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(in Random Island map area{{cite journal|doi=10.1016/0301-9268(94)00074-2|title=Neoproterozoic rocks of the Newfoundland Avalon Zone|journal=Precambrian Research|volume=73|issue=1–4|pages=123–136|year=1995|last1=Myrow|first1=P|bibcode=1995PreR...73..123M}})

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(elsewhere?){{Avalon peninsula map ref}}

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(on Cape St Mary's Peninsula{{Cite journal|url=http://www.nr.gov.nl.ca/nr/mines/geoscience/publications/report06_02.pdf}})

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  • Maturin Ponds Fm
  • Big Head Fm
  • Bull Arm Formation{{Cite journal|url=http://www.nr.gov.nl.ca/nr/mines/geoscience/publications/currentresearch/2005/obrien.pdf}}Normore, L.S. (2012). Geology of the Random Island map area (NTS 2C/04), Newfoundland. Curr. Res. Newfoundl. Labrador Dep. Nat. Resour. Geol. Surv. Report 12-, 121–145.

| underlies = Bonavista Group (unconformably)

| overlies = Connecting Point Group

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The Musgravetown Group is a terminal Ediacaran stratigraphic group of terrestrialish sandstones, lavas and tuffs cropping out in Newfoundland.

It corresponds temporally to the Signal Hill Group further east.

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