Avalon 1997 The Cambrium Standard (New York State Museum Bulletin Series, No. 492)

Museum Bulletin 492 is a "must buy" for college, university, and natural history museum libraries. It presents the most up-to-date views on fossil- and geochronology-based correlation of the Cambrian period (543-C. 487 million years ago). Contents of this bulletin include all of the proceedings of the third international field conference of The Cambrian Subcomission, which was held August 1997. The bulletin provides a thorough guide to the locations and importance of fossiliferous Cambrian rocks in easternmost Newfoundland and Southern New Brunswick. These rocks belong to the ancient Avalon continent, which forms the coastal Appalacians from eastern Massachusettes to eastern Newfoundland.