Dodo Creek Formation

Unit Name: Dodo Creek Formation
Unit Type: Lithostratigraphic
Rank: Formation
Status: Formal
Usage: Currently in use
Age Interval: Early Neoproterozoic - Middle Neoproterozoic (1000 - 635 ma)
Province/Territory: Northwest Territories

Originator: Turner and Long, 2012

Relationship:

Parent Unit: Little Dal Group

History:

Formerly informal "Mudcracked formation" of Little Dal Group (Mackenzie Mountains Supergroup)(Aitken, 1981); formalised as Dodo Creek Formation by Turner and Long (2012).

References:

Aitken, J.D., 1981. Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the upper Proterozoic Little Dal Group, mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories; in Proterozoic Basins of Canada, (ed.) F.H.A. Campbell; Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 81-10, p. 47-71.

Turner, E.C. and Long, D.G.F., 2012. Formal definition of the Neoproterozoic Mackenzie Mountains Supergroup (NWT), and formal stratigraphic nomenclature for its carbonate and evaporite formations. Geological Survey of Canada Open File 7112.

Source: GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA
Contributor: Elizabeth Turner; Alison Weatherston
Entry Reviewed: No
Name Set: Lithostratigraphic Lexicon
LastChange: 17 Apr 2013