The Rockslide Formation is a
geologic formation in
Northwest Territories
The Northwest Territories (abbreviated ''NT'' or ''NWT''; french: Territoires du Nord-Ouest, formerly ''North-Western Territory'' and ''North-West Territories'' and namely shortened as ''Northwest Territory'') is a federal territory of Canada. ...
. It preserves
fossils
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dating back to the Drumian (Plagiura-Pogiella to Bolaspidella Zone).
It was deposited in deep water on a reasonably distal slope; it contains carbonates, debris flows and siliciclastic siltstones, the latter being the fossil bearing horizons.
[ It also contains deep-water microbial reefs.]
See also
* List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Northwest Territories
References
*
Cambrian Northwest Territories
Cambrian northern paleotropical deposits
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