Rocky Harbour Formation

The Rocky Harbour Formation is a formation cropping out in Newfoundland. Its depositional setting was deltaic, with sediments showing the influence of tides and waves.

Facies from top to bottom
As reported in


 * Herring Cove
 * Peperite


 * Kings Cove Lighthouse
 * Purple to pink medium/coarse sandstones with rip-up clasts


 * Kings Cove North
 * Wave-influenced, light grey/green/yellow fissile siltstone (weathering white); laminated; interbedding with fine ssts.


 * Monk Bay
 * Dark grey trough-crossbedded and rippled sandstones; poor sorting, coarse to fine grains.


 * Cape Bonavista
 * Crossbedded coarse pink arkosic sandstones

Type section
Ford's Harbour (previously known (or mapped) as Rocky Harbour).