Rencontre Formation

Rencontre Formation Stratigraphic range: 552–541 Ma(approx) PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
Outcrops of the Rencontre Formation in Rencountre, NL.
Type	Formation
Unit of	(Long Harbour Group, in some schemes - e.g. NL GeoAtlas)
Underlies	Chapel Island Fm
Overlies	Long Harbour Group - volcanics - in Rencontre, Mooring Cove Formation
Thickness	Hundreds of metres
Location
Region	Newfoundland
Country	Canada
Outcrop distribution

The Rencontre Formation (locally pronounced Rown-Counter) is a geological formation just below the Cambrian-Ediacaran boundary in Newfoundland, deposited in a fault-bounded enclosed basin. U-Pb dates obtained just below its base give a maximum age of 552 ± 3 million years ago

It is subdivided into five depositional phases, with two subsequent phases in a seven-phase series corresponding to the overlying Chapel Island Formation (900 m thick in this basin) and Random Formation (250 m thick in this basin).