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<\/a><\/p>\nPhoto: Shoreline outcrop of the Neoproterozoic-Lower Cambrian Chapel Island Formation outside of the town of Grand Bank, Burin Peninsula, Newfoundland. The type section of the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary is placed within these rocks.<\/address>\n\u00a0<\/address>\nMy PhD dissertation was a study of the Chapel Island Formation, a shallow marine succession of siliciclastic and carbonate strata that straddles the Precambrian\u2013Cambrian boundary. In collaboration with Ed Landing (N.Y. State Museum) and Guy Narbonne (Queen\u2019s University) a main measured section of my thesis (Fortune Head) became the type section of this boundary. I have worked on numerous aspects of these rocks including details of the sedimentary structures and lithofacies, biogenic features, and biostratigraphy. A later study looked at a thin, Neoproterozoic cap carbonate bed at the top the glaciogenic Gaskiers Formation. Finally, in collaboration with Sam Bowring (MIT) and others, we have dated a number of ash beds found stratigraphically below, within, and above the Gaskiers.<\/p>\n
Refereed Publications\/Guidebooks:<\/h3>\n
Darroch, S.A.F., Sperling, E.A., Boag, T., Racicot, R.A., Mason, S., Morgan, A.S., Tweedt, S., Myrow, P.M., Johnston, D.T., Erwin, D.H., and Laflamme, M., 2015, Low diversity of terminal Ediacaran assemblages supports a \u2018biotic replacement\u2019 model for the end of the Ediacara biota: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 20151003.<\/p>\n
Buatois, L.A., Narbonne, G.M., Mangano, M.G., Carmona, N.B., and Myrow, P.M., 2014, Ediacaran matground ecology persisted into the earliest Cambrian: Nature Communications, DOI: 10.1038\/ncomms4544.<\/p>\n
McKenzie, N.R., Hughes, N., Gill, B.C., and Myrow, P.M., 2014, Plate tectonic influences on Neoproterozoic\u2013Early Paleozoic climate and animal evolution: Geology, v. 42, p. 127-130.<\/p>\n
Myrow, P.M., and Narbonne, G., 2012, The dawn of the Paleozoic on the Burin Peninsula: Field Trip Guidebook A2, Geological Association of Canada National Meeting Field Trip, 42 p.<\/p>\n
Droser, M.L., Jensen, S., Gehling, J.G., Myrow, P.M., and Narbonne, G.M., 2002. Lowermost Cambrian ichnofabrics from the Chapel Island Formation, Newfoundland: implications for Cambrian substrates: Palaios, v. 17, p. 3-15.<\/p>\n
Gehling, J.G., Jensen, S., Droser, M.L., Myrow, P.M., and Narbonne, G.M., 2001, Burrowing below the basal Cambrian GSSP, Fortune Head, Newfoundland: Geological Magazine, v. 138, p. 213-218.<\/p>\n
Myrow, P.M., and Kaufman, A.J., 1999, A cap carbonate above Varanger age glacials in Newfoundland: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 69, p. 784-793.<\/p>\n
Myrow, P.M., 1995, Neoproterozoic rocks of the Newfoundland Avalon Zone: in<\/i> Knoll, A.H. and Walter, M., eds., Neoproterozoic Stratigraphy and Earth History: Special Issue of Precambrian Research, v. 73, p. 123-136.<\/p>\n
Myrow, P.M., 1994, Pot and gutter casts from the Chapel Island Formation, southeast Newfoundland \u2014 reply: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. A64, p. 706-709.<\/p>\n
Myrow, P.M., and Hiscott, R.N., 1993, Depositional history and sequence stratigraphy of the potential boundary stratotype section for the Precambrian\u2013Cambrian boundary, Chapel Island Formation, southeast Newfoundland, in<\/i> Geldzetser, H. and Nowlan, G., eds., Event Markers in Earth History: Special Issue of Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 104, p. 13-35.<\/p>\n
Myrow, P.M., 1992, Bypass-zone tempestite facies model and proximality trends for an ancient muddy shoreline and shelf: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 62, p. 99-115.<\/p>\n
Myrow, P.M., 1992, Pot and gutter casts from the Chapel Island Formation, southeast Newfoundland: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 62, no. 4, p. 992-1007.<\/p>\n
Myrow, P.M., and Landing, E., 1992, Mixed siliciclastic\u2013carbonate deposition in a lower Cambrian oxygen-stratified basin, Chapel Island Formation southeastern Newfoundland: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 62, p. 455-473.<\/p>\n
Strauss, H., Bengtson, S., Myrow, P.M., Vidal, G., 1992, Stable isotope geochemistry and palynology of the late Precambrian to early Cambrian sequence in Newfoundland: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 29, p. 1662-1673.<\/p>\n
Myrow, P.M., and Hiscott, R. N., 1991, Shallow-water gravity-flow deposits, Chapel Island Formation, southeast Newfoundland, Canada: Sedimentology, v. 38, p. 935-959.<\/p>\n
Narbonne, G.N., Myrow, P.M., Landing, E. and Anderson, M.M., 1991, A chondrophorine (medusoid hydrozoan) from the basal Cambrian (Placential) of Newfoundland: Journal of Paleontology, v. 65, p. 186-191.<\/p>\n
Landing, E., Myrow, P.M., Benus, A., and Narbonne, G.M., 1989, The Placentian Series: appearance of the oldest skeletalized faunas in Southeastern Newfoundland: Journal of Paleontology, v. 63, p. 739-769. [Best Paper Award].<\/p>\n
Landing, E., Narbonne, G., and Myrow, P.M., (eds.), 1988, Trace fossils, small shelly fossils, and the Precambrian\u2013Cambrian boundary: New York State Museum Bulletin 463, The University of the State of New York, The State Education Department, Albany, N.Y., 98 p.<\/p>\n
Landing, E., Narbonne, G.M., Myrow, P.M., Benus, A., and Anderson, M M., 1988, Faunas and depositional environments of the upper Precambrian through Lower Cambrian, Southeastern Newfoundland: New York State Museum Bulletin 463, The University of the State of New York, The State Education Department, Albany, N.Y., p. 18-52.<\/p>\n
Myrow, P.M., Narbonne, G.M., and Hiscott, R.N., 1988, Storm-shelf and tidal deposits of the Chapel Island and Random formations, Burin Peninsula: facies and trace fossils: Geological Association of Canada Annual Meeting, Field Trip Guidebook B6, 108 p.<\/p>\n
Narbonne, G.M. and Myrow, P.M., 1988, Trace fossil biostratigraphy in the Precambrian\u2013Cambrian boundary interval, in<\/i> Landing, E., Narbonne, G., and Myrow, P., eds., Trace Fossils, Small Shelly Fossils and the Precambrian\u2013Cambrian Boundary: New York State Museum Bulletin 463, The University of the State of New York, State Education Department, Albany, N.Y., p. 72-76.<\/p>\n
Narbonne, G., Myrow, P.M., Landing, E. and Anderson, M.M., 1987, A candidate stratotype for the Precambrian\u2014Cambrian southeastern Newfoundland: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 24, p. 1277-1293.<\/p>\n
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Neoproterozoic to Cambrian stratigraphy and depositional history of Newfoundland. Photo: Shoreline outcrop of the Neoproterozoic-Lower Cambrian Chapel Island Formation outside of the town of Grand Bank, Burin Peninsula, Newfoundland. The type section of the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary is placed within these … Continue reading