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This document provides a table of geological formations in Alberta organized by geographic area. It lists over 200 geological units from the Precambrian to Quaternary periods. The formations are grouped into areas including Northern Mountains and Foothills, Central and South Mountains and Foothills, Southern Plains, Central Plains, and Northwestern Plains. Comments note some overlapping nomenclature between areas and that formations are not always clearly defined within each area.
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- 1. TABLE OF FORMATIONS, ALBERTA UNNAMED SECOND WHITE SPECKLED SHALE HALFWAY CHARLIE LAKE GRANITE WASH MONTNEY DOIG LEA PARK CARDIUM FIRST WHITE SPECKLED SHALE SWAN HILLS GRAVELS HAND HILLS LAURENTIDE DRIFT BLACKSTONE VIKING WAPIABI NIKANASSIN NORDEGG SCOLLARD PASKAPOO WATERFOWL LYNX SULLIVAN UPPER ARCTOMYS BASAL SANDSTONE UNIT MT. WHYTE CATHEDRAL CALMAR GRAMINIA CROSSFIELD POKER CHIP ROCK CREEK GREY BEDS BASAL COL WESTGATE FISH SCALE BASAL BELLY RIVER HORSESHOE CANYON WHITEMUD BATTLE PEKISKO SHUNDA ELKTON WATT MTN. GILWOOD PRAIRIE EVAPORITE WINNIPEGOSIS BASAL RED BEDS LOTSBERG ERNESTINA LAKE COLD LAKE CONTACT RAPIDS BELLOY BEL PERMIAN ISH- ISHBEL LOWER PRECAMBRIAN SOUTHESK RONDE UPPER LYNX LOWER LYNX PRECAMBRIAN MONKMAN ORDOVICIAN MIDDLE LOWER UPPER SNAKE INDIAN TITKANA GOG PIKA KECHIKA ARCTOMYS LYNX SILURIAN MIDDLE SKOKI DEVONIAN FLUME CAIRN UPPER FAIRHOLME PENNSYLVANIAN MISSISSIPPIAN PALLISER ALEXO EXSHAW BANFF PEKISKO RUNDLE SHUNDA DEBOLT ELKPOINT ELKPOINT SURVEY PEAK OUTRAM TIPPERARY SKOKI OWEN CREEK MT. WILSON BEAVERFOOT GOG LYNX ARCTOMYS PIKA ELDON STEPHEN CATHEDRAL MT. WHYTE SURVEY PEAK CATHEDRAL MT. WHYTE WATERFOWL SULLIVAN BISON CREEK ELDON STEPHEN LYELL MISTAYA PRECAMBRIAN MISTAYA BISON CREEK LYELL SULLIVAN WATERFOWL PRECAMBRIAN RED RIVER STONY MOUNTAIN STONEWALL BASAL SANDSTONE UNIT FINNEGAN DEADWOOD MT. WHYTE STEPHEN ARCTOMYS ELDON CATHEDRAL PIKA LYNX EARLIE ELDON STEPHEN PIKA LYNXLOWER (WHITE REEF) LOWER POROUS MIDDLE DENSE UPPER POROUS YAHATINDA FAIRHOLME MALIGNE MOUNT HAWK PERDRIX CAIRN (BLACK REEF) ? ? FLUME (WHITE REEF) SOUTHESK PEECHEE RONDE ARCS GROTTO RUNDLE BANFF EXSHAW PALLISER ALEXO COSTIGAN SASSENACH MORRO SPRAY PEKISKO MORRO COSTIGAN TURNER VALLEY TUNNEL MTN. JOHNSTON CANYON MOUNT HEAD SHUNDA ETHERINGTON KANANASKIS LAKES WILEMAN SALTER BARIL LOOMIS MARSTON CARNARVON WINTERBURN WINTERBURN SLAVE POINT (?) WATERWAYS BEAVERHILL LAKE ? UNDIVIDED COOKING LAKE HILLS SWAN WOODBEND LEDUC NISKU (ARCS) IRETON CALMAR LAKE BEAVERHILL UPPER WOODBEND LEDUCNISKU EXSHAW BANFF WABAMUN CROWFOOT STETTLER BIG VALLEY CROSSFIELD PEKISKO RUNDLE MOUNT ELKTON MIDDLE UPPER SHUNDA T.V. HEAD RUNDLE STONE BAKKEN WABAMUN BANFF EXSHAW LIVING- LAURENTIDE DRIFT HIGHWOOD KASKAPAU MOOSEBAR GLADSTONE CHARLIE LAKE BALDONNEL reddish-brown bands SHALE with dark POKER CHIP ROCK CREEK GREY BEDS PASSAGE BEDS COALSPUR PASKAPOO TRIASSICJURASSIC CREEK SCHOOLER GRAYLING TOAD UPPER HALFWAY NORDEGG FERNIE NIKANASSIN CADOMIN CRETACEOUS LOWER LUSCAR GATES ? ? UPPER SMOKY SHAFTESBURY DUNVEGAN CARDIUM WAPIABI QUATERNARY PERIOD TERTIARY BRAZEAU SAUNDERS RIVER BELLY RIVER BELLY OLDMAN GREY BEDS UNDIFFERENTIATED JUMPING POUND CALCAREOUS BADHEART FERNIESPRAYRIVER GETHING KOOT- RANGER CANYON SULPHUR MTN. WHITEHORSE NORDEGG WHISTLER LLAMA PHROSO VEGA WINNIFRED BREWSTER STARLIGHT MIST MOUNTAIN PIGEON CREEK PASSAGE BEDS HIGHWOOD POKER CHIP ROCK CREEK GREEN BEDS MORRISSEY CADOMIN GLADSTONE ENAY ELK BLAIRMORE CROWSNEST VOLCANICS ALBERTA MOUNTAIN CACHE GRANDE TORRENS ? ? PARK ? ? ? ? NOMAD CHUNGO HANSON THISTLE DOWLING BADHEART MUSKIKI BEAVER MINES HOME MA BUTTE ? ? ? CARDIUM BLACKSTONE WAPIABI MUSKIKI BELLY RIVER DOWLING THISTLE HANSON CHUNGO NOMAD MANNVILLE MANNVILLE CUTBANK (TABER) ELLIS SAWTOOTH RIERDON SWIFT OSTRACOD SUNBURST DETRITAL LOWER CREEK SCHOOLER DIABERBANTRY SHALE OSTRACOD LS. SHAUNAVON FERNIE LOWER UPPER MANNVILLE COLORADO SHALE SECOND WHITE SPECKLED SHALE FIRST WHITE SPECKLED SHALE COLORADO FISH SCALE ? GLAUCONITIC UPPER BOW ISLAND WESTGATE MILK RIVER PAKOWKI CARDIUM BLACKSTONE FOREMOST COLORADO BASAL COLORADO BARONS JOLI FOU UPPER JUDITH RIVER PAKOWKI MED. HAT WILLOW CREEK PORCUPINE HILLS ST. MARY RIVER BLOOD RESERVE BRAZEAU LAURENTIDE DRIFT COALSPUR PASKAPOO UPPER LOWER OBED BEARPAW SCOLLARD HORSE- CANYON PASKAPOO LAURENTIDE DRIFT CREEK RIVER PORCUPINE ST. MARY WILLOW BEARPAW BLOOD RESERVE LOWER UPPER HILLS SHOE SWIFT CURRENT FRENCHMAN RAVENSCRAG CYPRESS HILLS BEARPAW EASTEND WHITEMUD BATTLE EDMONTON BELLOY Some overlapping of the nomenclature throughout entire areas and the usage of Range 7, west of the 5th Meridian. north of Townships 65 to 126 and east of Range 7, west of the 5th Meridian. between Townships 65 to 126 and west Northwestern Plains are approximately east of the Foothills Disturbed Belt. between Townships 31 to 64 and Central Plains are approximately the Disturbed Belt. south of Township 30 and east of Southern Plains are approximately River and west of the Disturbed Belt. Disturbed Belt. Deer River and west of the are approximately south of the Red South-Central Mountains & Foothills names are shown in brackets. possible, older or alternative local some areas necessary. Wherever of the areas is possible and in defined rigidly within each area. of formational names cannot be and zones are not known to occur It is obvious that selective members Northeastern Plains are approximately 640-5 Avenue SW Copies may be obtained from ELKPOINT ELKPOINT MUSKEG RAINBOW PINEPOINT RIVER UPPER PRECAMBRIANPRECAMBRIAN FINNEGAN DEADWOOD EARLIE STONEWALL STONY MOUNTAIN RED RIVER BASAL SANDSTONE UNIT STEPHEN CATHEDRAL MT. WHYTE ELDON PIKA LYNX ARCTOMYS CHINCHAGA LOWER KEG RIVER COLD LAKE ERNESTINA LAKE BASAL RED BEDS GRANITE WASH LOWER KEG PRECAMBRIAN WINNIPEGOSIS BASAL RED BEDS ERNESTINA LAKE COLD LAKE CONTACT RAPIDS BLACK CK. GRANITE WASH LOTSBERG LOWER TETCHO KOTCHO MUSKWA REDKNIFE KAKISA TROUT RIVER FORT VERMILION WINTERBURN WATERWAYS BSL. COOKING LAKE FORT VERMILION SLAVE PT. MAJEAU LAKE HILLS SWAN COOKING LAKE LEDUC CAMROSE DUVERNAY IRETON BIGORAY CYNTHIA LOBSTICK WOLF LAKE ZETA DUVERNAY NISKU SULPHUR POINT GILWOOD BEAVERHILL LAKE ? UPPER ? HILLS SWAN WATT MTN. SLAVE PT. ZAMA WATERWAYS WOODBEND LEDUC IRETON STETTLER BIG VALLEY BLUERIDGE WABAMUN BANFF EXSHAW PEKISKO DEBOLT SHUNDA TAYLOR FLAT GOLATA KISKATINAW RUNDLE DART STOD- LOWER UPPER WINTERBURN COOKING LAKE FIREBAG CALUMET CHRISTINA MOBERLY MILDRED HONDO FORT VERMILION WATT MTN. PRAIRIE EVAPORITE LEDUC BEAVERHILL LAKE SLAVE PT. UPPER WATERWAYS FORT SIMPSON MARIE JEAN WOODBEND GROSMONT CALMAR NISKU IRETON D IRETON A B C RIVER HAY FALLS TWIN TATHLINA WABAMUN EXSHAW BANFF July 2009 approximately north of the Red Deer Northern Mountains & Foothills are as follows: shown. The areas are described according to the geographic areas stratigraphic columns are grouped The geological names used in the COMMENTS RESOURCES OCCURRENCE GEOLOGICAL CONTACTS LITHOLOGIC COLOUR CODE FISH SCALE DETRITAL ELLERSLIE OSTRACOD CADOMIN DINA CHARLIE LAKE NORDEGG MONTNEY HALFWAY BOUNDARY BALDONNEL SCHOOLER CREEK DIABER DOIG UNNAMED POKER CHIP CADOMIN GETHING ROCK CREEK GREY BEDS FERNIE HEAD NIKANASSIN BULL- JOLI FOU MANNVILLE GLAUCONITIC UPPER MCLAREN LLOYDMINSTER CUMMINGS GP. REX SPARKY WASECA COLONY BROSSEAU VICTORIA BURY WESTGATE BLUESKY FORTST.JOHN RIVER SPIRIT RIVER PEACE FALHER WILRICH HARMON CADOTTE NOTIKEWIN PADDY CHINOOK CARDIUM KASKAPAU PUSKWASKAU SHAFTES- MUSKIKI BADHEART SMOKY DUNVEGAN DOE CK. McMURRAY SECOND WHITE VIKING (PELICAN) GRAND RAPIDS FISH SCALE COLORADO A E F D C B MANNVILLE JOLI FOU COUPE POUCE COLORADO SHALE SPECKLED LEA PARK FIRST W.S. WAPITI CLEARWATER WABISKAW LA BICHE LOWER UPPER BEARPAW RIBSTONE LAURENTIDE DRIFT WAPITI LAURENTIDE DRIFT Member, zone, unit boundary Evaporites (anhydrite, halite) Carbonates (limestone, dolomite) Clastics (sandstones, siltstones, Coal occurrences Coal mining Bitumen Gas Oil conglomerates) Precambrian Terminology transition Correlation uncertain Formation, group boundary ? Shales Glacial deposits (drift, soils) LEGEND ERACENOZOICMESOZOICPALEOZOIC CAMBRIAN NORTHERN MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS AND CENTRAL SOUTH- MOUNTAINS FOOTHILLS SOUTHERN PLAINS PLAINS CENTRAL PLAINS NORTHWEST PLAINS NORTHEAST ERCB INFORMATION SERVICES Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2P 3G4 AGEIN MILLIONS OFYEARS 1.6 66.4 97.5 144 208 245 286 320 360 374 408 505 523 570 WESTGATE IRETON 387 LOWER 438 540 Shale gas potential BELLE FOURCHE BELLE FOURCHE BELLE FOURCHE BELLE FOURCHE ENERGY RESOURCES CONSERVATION BOARD