Geology of New Brunswick

Geological map of area surrounding the Bay of Fundy (1868 vintage).

Paleozoic New Brunswick

Cambrian Era

• Forest Hills Formation
• Hanford Brook Formation
• St. John Group
• Wades Lane Formation

Ordovician Era

• Avalonia
• Northern Appalachians Seismic Zone

Volcanoes of New Brunswick

The Distribution of Ancient Volcanic Rocks along the Eastern Border of North America.

• Bathurst Mining Camp
• Mount Carleton Provincial Park
• Coastal Volcanic Belt
• Fundy Basin
• Chignecto Basin
• Mount Pleasant Caldera
• Sugarloaf Mountain

Silurian Era

• Back Bay Formation
• Limestone Point Formation
• Petit Rocher Formation

Devonian Era

• Campbellton Formation
• Dalhousie Group
• La Garde Formation

Carboniferous Era

• Leda Clay Formation
• Maritime Plain

Mesozoic New Brunswick

Triassic Era

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Jurassic Era

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Cretaceous Era

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Cenozoic New Brunswick

Paleogene Era

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Neogene Era

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References

Bibliography

• Abraham Gesner (1839). First report on the geological survey of the province of New-Brunswick. Saint John.
• Abraham Gesner (1840). Second report on the geological survey of the province of New-Brunswick. Saint John.
• Abraham Gesner (1841). Third report on the geological survey of the province of New-Brunswick. Saint John.
• Abraham Gesner (1842). Fourth report on the geological survey of the province of New-Brunswick. Saint John.
• Abraham Gesner (1842). Synopsis of the contents of Gesner's Museum of Natural History, at Saint John, N.B., opened on the fifth day of April, 1842. Saint John.
• Abraham Gesner (1843). Report on the geological survey of the province of New Brunswick : with a topographical account of the public lands and the districts explored in 1842. Saint John.
• Alfred R.C. Selwyn (1870–71). Annual Report - Geological Survey of Canada. Ottawa.
• Randall F. Miller; Diane N. Buhay; Michelle Hébert (July 2012). "Specimen Collections from Abraham Gesner's Geological Survey of New Brunswick (1838 to 1842)". Atlantic Geology. 48.
• Charles Richard van Hise (1892). "Eastern Canada and Newfoundland". Correlation Papers - Archean and Algonkian. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey. 86.
• Charles Richard Van Hise; Charles Kenneth Leith (1909). "New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Gaspe Peninsula". Pre-Cambrian Geology of North America. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey. 360. Washington DC.