Table of Formations
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Table 1: Table of Formations in the Fernie-Elk Valley Area Table 1: Table of Formations in the Fernie-Elk Valley Area Table 1: Table of Formations in the Fernie-Elk Valley Area Part A: Triassic to Quaternary Part B: Devonian to Permian Part C: Precambrian to Cambrian System/ unconformity unconformity Formation and Thickness Lithology Series Ranger Canyon Formation chert, with sandstone, siltstone, Windsor Mountain Formation dolomite-mottled limestone and phosphatic conglomerate Quaternary till, sand and gravel 0-36m 0-70 m dolomite; calcareous silty dolomite phosphatic siltstone, chert, at base unconformity Ross Creek Formation 0-150 m limestone, basal conglomerate Elko Formation dolomite, dolomite-mottled St.Eugene Formation (Rocky Mountain Trench only) colluvium, fanglomerate, Miocene Telford Formation fossilliferous limestone and dolomite, 150-160 m limestone at base 50 m exposed, total thickness unknown sand, silt and gravel 0-500m Permian 0-240 m sandy and silty in part, and chert Gordon Shale greyish green shale,with sandstone varicoloured sandstone, mudstone, Ishbel Group Johnson Canyon Formation phosphatic siltstones, chert, basal 45-90 m and limestone Kishenehn Formation (Flathead Valley only) clay, oil shale, limestone, Middle Cambrian Oligocene 0-60 m chert-phosphate conglomerate Flathead Sandstone 2-45 m quartz sandstone 0-5000m conglomerate and megabreccia unconformity unconformity unconformity silty and sandy dolomite, siltstones green and grey, argillite, dolomitic Kananaskis Formation Roosville Formation Belly River Formation continental sandstones, shales, and 0-60m and chert breccia argillite, siltstone, and sandstone, 1370m minor amounts of coal 0-600 m Rocky Mountain Supergroup Rocky Mountain and dolomite Wapiabi Formation dark shale, siltstone, fine sandstone, Group Misty Formation sandstone with minor amounts of red quartz sandstone, siltstone and 60-625m 60-610 m siltstone and dolomite Phillips Formation 120-200 m Spray Lakes Lakes Spray argillite 600-700m calcareous shale and limestone Pennsylvania green and grey argillite and Cardium Formation unconformity marine sandstone, siltstone and shale upper member dolomitic argillite, dolomitic 100-150m brightly coloured Gateway Formation Todhunter Mbr sandstone and dolomite siltstone, dolomite and 375-715 m Blackstone Formation dark shale, fine sandstone, siltstone, 15-48m red to grey and green siltstone and Alberta Group Upper Cretaceous calc. sandstone lower member 30-250m limestone and calcareous shale argillite dolomite, crinoidal and oolitic Etherington Formation dolomite, yellow, grey, and red unconformity limestones, green and maroon shale, 100-469m sandstone and siltstone, light Crowsnest Formation alkaline tuff, volcanic breccia, volcanic anhydrite, sandstone, and siltstone Sheppard Formation green dolomitic sandstone and 0-400m conglomerate, and trachyte micritic and skeletal 50-275 m argillite, locally with chloritized quartz-chert sandstones, grey dark-grey Ma Butte Formation Carnarvon Mbr limestone with lesser andesite in the lower part siltstones and red mudstones, igneous weathering 120-1875m (latter is combined thickness with 23-90 m amounts of calcareous and quartzite-chert pebble Opal skeletal, shale Purcell Lava 60-150 m chloritized andesite Beaver Mines Formation in the Fernie Basin) argillaceous grey limestone and conglomerate Mbr oolitic, micritic Siyeh Formation 200-680 m 200-680 and arg. silty dolomite and dolomite, grey, green, and black grey to green feldspathic sandstone 200-240 350-800 m Beaver Mines Formation Marston Mbr limestones anhydrite, lesser argillite, dolomitic sandstone and arkose, siltstone, and grey to m 450-1875m (latter is combined thickness with Ma 18-68 m and calc. amounts of limestone Grinnell Formation red argillite and siltstone and white maroon mudstone, igneous pebble 635-2400m Butte Formation in the Fernie Basin) shale and shale 100-230m to grey sandstone conglomerate Rundle Group oolitic, crinoidal, and micritic green, grey and minor red argillite, Loomis Mbr Appekunny Formation fine quartz-chert sandstone, limestone, and fine to medium Precambrian siltstone, and green quartzitic Gladstone Formation siltstone,and green and red Mississippian 30 -100 m 230-500 m sandstone crystalline dolomite Purcell Supergroup 80-450m mudstone; limestone and calcareous silty and sandy dolomite, anhydrite sandy dolomite, dolomitic mudstone in upper part Salter Mbr Altyn Formation sandstone, dolomite, dolomitic Mount Head Formation Mount Head Formation with crinoidal grainstone and 145-375m Lower Cretaceous chert pebble conglomerate and 29-67 m argillite and argillite Blairmore Group Blairmore Group Cadomin Formation packstone increasing to west sandstone, grey, green, and red 15-75m mudstone Baril Mbr 11-39 m oolitic, micritic and crinoidal limestone Waterton Formation varicoloured to grey limestone and 250m dolomite, thin argillite Pocaterra Creek sandstone, siltstone, mudstone, Wileman Mbr 8-25m silty dolomite and anhydrite Member 0-90 m minor chert pebble conglomerate fine to coarse crinoidal grainstones Tombstone Mountain Formation dark grey argillaceous and silty Livingstone Formation limestone and dolomite, and silty unconformity and packstones, and fine crystalline 175m 200-450 m calcareous argillite dolomite. Elk Formation sandstone, conglomerate, siltstone, resistant light coloured to banded Banff Formation 250-850 m dark cherty limestones and shales Haig Brook Formation 0-475m thin coal 145m dolomite, limestone and minor argillite Exshaw Formation 6-150 m black organic shale, siltstone, chert Mist Mountain Formation siltstone, sandstone, mudstone, Unit 1 dark calcareous and dolomitic limestone, dolomite and anhydrite 75-665m shale, coal 107m argillite and black argillite Palliser Formation 175-500? m (solution breccia in outcrop) fine to medium sandstone with Unit 2 grey argillaceous dolomite and Morrissey Formation conglomeratic beds in the upper sandstone, Sassenach silty carbonate and 314m black argillite Kootenay Group 25-65 m part, and rare mudstone, siltstone Alexo Formation siltstone, Fm anhydrite (solution Unit 3 grey, green, red and white fine and coal. 5-30 m sandy and silty breccia in outcrop) dolomite and limestone Jurassic 0-200 m 219m Fernie Formation dark shales, sandstone, siltstone, carbonate limestone, basal coquina and Unit 4 170m dark argillaceous limestone 175-400m light grey coarse phosphate pebble conglomerate Arcs Mbr 0-45 m Nisku Formation dolomite N.B. The data on this table are derived from the references listed in the text. 20-65 m unconformity Grotto Mbr 0-60 dark grey dolomite calcareous and dolomitic sandstone "Ireton" "Ireton" 0-3m arg. carbonate Whitehorse Formation Mount Hawk Fm grey and siltstone, sandy dolomite and Leduc light grey coarse 0-10 m (basinal) Peechee argillaceous solution breccia Formation dolomite, dolomite 0-150 m Mbr limestone, Upper Devonian 200 m and anhydrite Group 0-250 m dark shale and siltstone, calcareous Southesk Formation part silty Triassic Sulphur Mountain Formation Spray River Spray and dolomitic siltstone, dolomite and dark calc. 0-496 m Borsato dark limestone, sandstone Perdrix Cooking Lake shale and Formation crystalline dolomite, Fairholme Group Formation Formation shaly unconformity 15-60 m dolomite anhydrite 50-60 m limestone limestone, dolomite, and anhydrite Hollebeke Formation Beaverhill Lake (solution breccia in outcrop) 120-240 m Group 100 m Middle sandy and silty dolomite, dolomitic Yahatinda Formation 0-30 m Devonian siltstone and sandstone unconformity.