Smith Point Formation

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| type = Formation

| age = {{Geological range|Tommotian|refs={{cite journal |author=Hiscott, R. N. |date=1982|title= Tidal deposits of the Lower Cambrian Random Formation, eastern Newfoundland; facies and paleoenvironments |journal= Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences |volume=19|pages=2028–2042 |doi=10.1139/e82-180}}}}

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| region = Newfoundland

| country = Canada

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| unitof = Adeyton Group{{cite web |url= http://www.nr.gov.nl.ca/nr/mines/geoscience/publications/report06_02.pdf |title=Bedrock geology of the Cape St. Mary's Peninsula, southwest Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland (includes parts of NTS map sheets 1M/1, 1N/4, 1L/16 and 1K/13)|author=Terence Patrick Fletcher |date=2006}}

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| underlies = Brigus Formation (conformably)

| overlies = Bonavista Fm (conformably)

| thickness = 7 m (at type locality){{cite journal |author=Normore, L. S. |date=2012|title= Geology of the Random Island Map Area (Nts 2C/04), Newfoundland |journal=Current Research 2012: Newfoundland and Labrador Department of Natural Resources Geological Survey Report |volume=12|pages=121–145}}

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The Smith Point Formation is an Early Cambrian (c. Tommotian), fossil-rich, pink to brick red limestone formation cropping out in Newfoundland.

Palaeontology

Its fossil assemblage includes trilobites, hyoliths, and microbialites (stromatolites/ oncolites).

References