Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve Field Trip Guide (original) (raw)

This fieldtrip will introduce you to the late Ediacaran paleobiology and ichnology of Newfoundland, and will touch upon some of the most interesting current debates and research areas in this field. Newfoundland contains some of the world’s best exposures of latest Neoproterozoic sedimentary successions. Although Cryogenian and early Ediacaran sedimentary units are not exposed in Newfoundland, deposits relating to the Gaskiers glaciation (considered by some to represent the final ‘Snowball Earth’ event), and extensive late Ediacaran fossil-bearing units, are well displayed and have been the subject of extensive study sciences in Canada and the world.