Gog Group
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| Gog Group Stratigraphic range: Cambrian |
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Trace fossils in a slab from the Gog Group.
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| Region | Alberta |
| Country | Canada |
The Gog Group is a geologic group in Alberta. It consists of distinctive shallow marine quartzites and quartzitc conglomerates that contain extremely rare Lower Cambrian trilobite fossils and an abundance of trace fossils.[1]
See also
- List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Alberta
- Big Rock (glacial erratic)
- Foothills Erratics Train
References
- ↑ Hein, H. J., and M. E. McMechan (1994). Chapter 6 Proterozoic and Lower Cambrian Strata of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin; in Geological Atlas of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin, G.D. Mossop and I. Shetsen (comp.). Alberta, Canada: Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists and Alberta Research Council. [last accessed July 19, 2015].
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