Table of Formations Peel Plateau Beaufort - 1 5 6 Western Liard Basin Great Slave Plain 4 Colville Hills 7 Era Period +/- Epoch, Age Ma 2 3 & Plain MackenzieMa Plain Mackenzie Basin 8 Pleistocene, Holocene Trout Lake Area Cameron Hills W E W NE Sverdrup Basin 2.6 Pliocene 5.3 Iperk Shallow Bay Beaufort Quaternary Miocene Akpak Neogene 23.0 Mackenzie Bay Oligocene Kugmallit 33.9 Richards Eocene Taglu Taglu

56.0 Reindeer Paleogene Aklak Aklak

Tertiary Paleocene CENOZOIC 66.0 Fish River Supersequence Maastrichtian Summit Creek 72.1 Wapiti Mason River Campanian East Fork Smoking Hills 83.6 Little Bear Kanguk Santonian Kotaneelee Boundary 86.3 ? ? Late Coniacian Creek 89.8 ? Turonian Trevor Little Bear 93.9 Many formal sequence stratigraphic Cenomanian Dunvegan Dunvegan Slater River Slater River units above the Albian unconformity 100 Sully Fish Scales Bed Sikanni oil seeps Hassel Lepine Scatter Marker Albian Sans Sault Mbr Tussock Mbr Fort Albian Flysch Fort Fort Scatter Wildhorn Mbr Lepine & Garbutt Arctic Red Group Group St. John Arctic Red Arctic Red Red St. John 113 St. John Bulwell Mbr Christopher Garbutt Group Rapid Creek Aptian Martin House Martin House Martin House

Cretaceous Chinkeh Chinkeh 126 Barremian Rat River Atkinson Isachsen Early Mount Goodenough Point 131 Hauterivian 134 Kamik Valanginian 139 McGuire MESOZOIC Berriasian Deer Bay Parsons Group 145 Martin Creek Late Husky Awingak 164 Ringnes Hiccles Cove Middle Bug McConnell Island Sandy Point Kingak Creek 174 Jameson Bay Group King Christian Early Lougheed Island Jurassic Maclean Strait 201 Grosvenor Island Barrow Late Shublik Pat Bay Hoyle Bay 237 Roche Point Cache Creek Uplift Group

Middle Schei Point Toad-Grayling and Tununuk High Murray Harbour

Triassic 247 Early (Southeast Blind Fiord Lopingian 252 260 Ft. Liard field) Longstick Bjorne Guadalupian Fantasque Jungle Creek 272 Trold Fiord Degerböls ? Assistance Van Hauen Cisuralian Kindle (Tika) upper ? Great Bear Cape Trappers Cove

Permian Belcher Channel Hare Gzhelian 299 Kasimovian 304 Canyon Fiord 307 Moscovian Kindle (Tika) lower ? Fiord 315 Otto Fiord

Pennsylvanian Bashkirian Aklavik 323 Arch Borup Fiord Serpukhovian (Southeast Lisburne Ft. Liard field) Mattson 331 Group Golata Emma Visean Golata Prophet Fiord Flett Flett Kayak 347 Clausen Pekisko Prophet Shunda Kayak

Mississippian Clausen Kekiktuk

Carboniferous Tournaisian Yohin Pekisko “First Black Shale” Banff 359 Exshaw Tuttle Besa River Kotcho Kotcho Tuttle Ford Lake Famennian Tetcho Tetcho Imperial Parry Islands Trout River Imperial 372 Imperial Kakisa Jungle Ridge Mbr Late Ft. Simpson Jean Marie Mbr Redknife Frasnian Tathlina Canol Twin Falls Alexandra Mbr Canol Canol Beverley Inlet Ft. Simpson Hay River Escarpment Mbr Waterways Mbr allochthonous Muskwa reef debris 383 “Otter Park” Slave Point Kee Scarp Mbr Ft. Vermilion (Norman Wells Hecla Bay Horn Horn Watt Mountain Field)

Hare Indian Ramparts Melville Island Group Horn River Arch Keele Weatherall Givetian River Plateau Presqu’ile Reefs Dolomite (Cameron Muskeg Grey shale Mbr Hills fields) Hare Indian Hare Sulphur Point Horn River Group Bluefish Mbr Bluefish Mbr Indian Cape de Bray “Klua” 388 Keg River Keele Nahanni Nahanni Arch Blackley

Middle (Ft. Liard (Lonely Bay) Hume fields) Upper Chinchaga Hume Hume Manetoe

Devonian Headless Eifelian dolomite PALEOZOIC Headless Ebbutt Mbr Hume Hume

393 Manetoe dolomite Lower Landry Bear Rock Landry Chinchaga Landry Road Fort Norman (surface (Ft. Liard ? (subsurface) River fields) Fort Norman Road Bear Rock breccia) Road Landry Emsian (subsurface) River Arnica (surface Blue River breccia) Kitson Fiord Group Cold Lake Mbr Early

Ernestina Lake Mbr (subsurface) Mirage Norman Fort Johnny Hoe Mbr Arnica Point ? Arnica (Bent Horn Field) 408 Arnica Basal Clastics Pragian Tatsieta Camsell Tatsieta Sombre (La Loche) (subsurface) 411 Camsell? Tsetso Lochkovian Root Tsetso Delorme

Road Group Group Group Peel Delorme River River? Peel Delorme 419 Tathlina Cape Read Bay Silurian Arch Keele Phillips Mount Mount Allen Bay Esbataottine- Mount Mount Kindle Mount Arch 444 Kindle Mount Mount Kindle Late Whittaker Kindle Kindle Kindle Kindle Irene Bay 458 Thumb Ordovician Middle Sunblood Keele Mountain Bay Fiord 470 Franklin Arch Eleanor River Baumann Fiord Early Broken Skull/ Franklin Bulley’s Lump unnamed Franklin Mountain Franklin Mountain Franklin Mountain Rabbitkettle Mountain Franklin Mountain Franklin Mountain 485 Mountain Rabbitkettle Furongian Cass Fiord Cape Clay 497 Saline River Saline River Saline River Saline River Saline River Saline River Epoch 3 Bulmer Cass Fiord Mount Cap Mount Cap 509 Mount Cap Mount Cap Slats Mount Cap Mount Cap Scoresby Bay Epoch 2 Creek Cambrian Lake 521 Mount Clark Mount Clark Illtyd Mount Clark Mount Clark Mount Clark Terre- Mackenzie Arch Ellesmere Group Neuvian Arch 541 unnamed Helikian Mackenzie Mountains Mackenzie Mountains Hornby Bay Group - Katherine Group mixed Supergroup Supergroup Mackenzie Mountains SG & older Mackenzie Proterozoic Mountains SG lithologies

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