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Raymond Alexander Price, OC FRSC (March 25, 1933 – October 16, 2024) [1] was a Canadian geologist.He has used his research on the structure and tectonics of North America’s lithosphere to produce extensive geological maps.
The Ashville Formation is a geological formation in Saskatchewan and Manitoba whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation. [2] It is geochronologically equivalent to the Lower Colorado Group and the Viking Formation in central Alberta.
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It is present in southern Manitoba and southeastern Saskatchewan, and consists primarily of calcareous shale. It was named for the Favel River near Minitonas, Manitoba, by R.T.D. Wickenden in 1945. [1] [2] The Favel Formation is richly fossiliferous and had yielded remains of a wide variety of marine animals, including the marine crocodile ...
The Inwood Formation is a geologic formation in Manitoba. ... of the Interlake Group and Stonewall Formation of Southern Manitoba", Geological Survey of Canada ...
It is present beneath the plains of northern and eastern Alberta, southern Saskatchewan and southwestern Manitoba in Canada, [3] and it extends into northwestern North Dakota and northeastern Montana in the United States. [4] The formation is a major source of potash, most of which is used for fertilizer production.
The Winnipegosis komatiite belt is a 150 km (93 mi) long and 30 km (19 mi) wide greenstone belt located in the Lake Winnipegosis area of central Manitoba, Canada. It has no surface exposure and was identified based on geophysical signatures and drilling during mineral exploration by Cominco during the 1990s. [ 3 ]
The Manitoba Group is a stratigraphical unit of middle to late Devonian age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. The group takes its name from the province of Manitoba , and was first defined by A.D. Baillie in 1953.