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The Providence Island Formation In The Northern Appalachian Region - A Lower-Lower Middle Ordovician Analogue To Recent Arid-Semiarid Tidal-Flat Carbonates Of The Persian Gulf Trucial Coast, Mauricio Roma Hernandez

Geology Theses and Dissertations

The Providence Island Formation of Early-early Middle Ordovician age occurs in the Champlain Valley and adjacent areas in eastern New York, western Vermont, and southern Quebec. The unit forms part of a carbonate shelf sequence which occupied the eastern margin of the North American continent from Newfoundland to Alabama, and its lithology is representative of the dolostone lithofacies that characterizes the uppermost Beekmantown Group in this region.
This is the first study documenting depositional environments, diagenesis, and stratigraphic correlations of the Providence Island Formation. This formation consists, in decreasing abundance, of dolostones, limestones, shales, and dedolostones. The dominantly fine grain …