TYPE  SECTION  OF  THE

DESCHAMBAULT LIMESTONE

(MIDDLE ORDOVICIAN)

 

 

 

Above: Canadian & American geologists walking the Deschambault Limestone type section (Middle Ordovician), looking for fossils.  The Deschambault Limestone is the basal unit of the Trenton Group in the Quebec City area.

 

 

Above: current-aligned orthoconic nautiloid cephalopods in the Deschambault Limestone.

 


 

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