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Bonavista Formation

geologic formation in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2025
Entity authorityQ29829163 ↗
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The Bonavista Formation is an Early Cambrian formation which is exposed in outcrop in Newfoundland. The unit is dominated by red mudstone, with some purple-green mudstones, and the occasional interbedded nodular limestone. A gritty conglomerate is exposed at the base of the unit.

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The public source identifies “Bonavista Formation” as geologic formation in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Bonavista, Formation and geologic.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bonavista Formation” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.