The Miette Group is an assemblage of metamorphosed sedimentary rocks of latest Precambrian (Neoproterozoic) age. It is present in the Canadian Cordillera from the Lake Louise area of Alberta to the Yukon.Glass, D. J. (editor) 1997. Lexicon of Canadian Stratigraphy, vol. 4, Western Canada including eastern British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and southern Manitoba. Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, Calgary, 1423 p. on CD-ROM. . The Miette rocks include Ediacaran fossils, stromatolites, and trace fossils.Narbonne, G. M. and Hofmann, H. J. 1987. Ediacaran biota of the Wernecke Mountains, Yukon, Canada. Paleontology, vol. 30, pp. 647–676.Hofmann, H. J., Mountjoy, E. W. and Teitz, M. W. 1986. Ediacaran fossils from the Miette Group, Rocky Mountains, British Columbia, Canada. Geology, vol. 13, pp. 819–821.Ferguson, C. A. and Simony, P. S. 1991. Preliminary report on structural evolution an stratigraphic correlation, northern Cariboo Mountains, British Columbia. In: Current Research, Part A, Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 91-1A, pp. 103–110.

See also

List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in British Columbia

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