Appendix A
Hydrogeological Maps
Bedrock Topography – Bow Valley Bedrock Topography – Kananaskis Valley Bedrock Topography – Spray Lakes Valley Drift Thickness – Bow Valley Drift Thickness – Kananaskis Valley Drift Thickness – Spray Lakes Valley Yield Zones – Upper Drift Aquifer – Bow Valley Yield Zones – Kananaskis Valley Yield Zones – Spray Lakes Valley Hydraulic Head – Bow Valley Hydraulic Head – Kananaskis Valley Bedrock Geology
Insufficient data were available to construct a hydraulic head map of the Spray Lakes Valley. 2900 2800 2700 2600 2500 2400 2300 2200 2100 2000 1900 1800 1700 1600 1500 1400 1300 1200 1100 1000
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Kananaskis
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Seebe
10
Barrier 1
Lake
1X er
Hwy
635000
Barrier Mountain
Kilometres o Riv Bow
Hwy 1 w 1A Hwy
5
632500 1500
Mount
Yamnuska 1500
Kananaskis
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Lac des Arcs
Exshaw
alley
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1500 Arcs
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Lac des
627500
625000 1500
Gap Lake
Mount Fable
Easting (m)
opography - Bow V
Wind Valley
5
’s Flats
622500
1500
Hwy 1A
Dead Man
620000
Bedrock T
Hwy 1
617500
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Bow Riv Three Sisters
615000
Canmore
A Project
Harvie Heights
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Data Point New Well - WEP Study Area Boundary
610000
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Study Area Boundary
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Harvie Heights
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Kananaskis
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Hwy
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Hwy 1 w 1A Hwy
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Wind Valley
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Dead Man
Bow Riv
620000
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Hwy 1
617500
615000
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Canmore
A Project
Harvie Heights
612500
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New Well - WEP
Study Area Boundary
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Cenozoic Quaternary and Recent Drift
KBZ -l Brazeau - Lower Part
Upper Cretaceous KWp Wapiabi
Alberta Group KCa Cardium Formation
KBk Blackstone
Mesozoic Blairmore Group KBL Beaver Mines, Mill Creek, Cadomin and Gladstone
Lower Cretaceous / Jurassic
Kootenay Group JKK
Jurassic JF Fernie
Triassic Spray River Group SR Whitehorse and Sulphur Mountain
Upper Carboniferous and Permian Rocky Mountain Group CPRM Rocky Mountain Group
CEt Etherington
MPPu Mount Head and Etherington Rundle Group CMH Mount Head
Lower Carboniferous CLv Livingstone
CSh Shunda
CPk Pekisko
Paleozoic Lower Carboniferous and Upper Devonian DCEB Exshaw and Banff
DPa Palliser
DAx Alexo
Upper Devonian
DSx Southesk
Fairholme Group DCn Cairn
Fairholme Group (not differentiated)
Celx Waterfowl, Sullivan, Lyell, Bison Creek, Mistaya and Eldon
Upper and Middle Cambrian CPE Pika and Eldon
CCS Cathedral and Stephen
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Geology compiled by Kevin Nipp Sources of Geological Information: Hamilton, W.N., M.C. Price and D.K Chao, 1997.Geology of the Bow Corridor , Scale, Alberta Geological Survey Map 232A, Scale 1:50,000 McMechan, M.E. 1995. Geology, Rocky Mountain Foothills and Front Ranges in Kananaskis Country, Alberta: Geological Suvey of Canada, Map 1865A, Scale !:100,000 Walter, D.J. 1978.Geology: Calgary, Alberta-British Columbia, NTS 82-O , Geological Survey of Canada Map 1457A, Scale 1:250,000 A-14