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The Ravenscrag Formation is a stratigraphic unit of early Paleocene age in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin. [2] It was named for the settlement of Ravenscrag, Saskatchewan, and was first described from outcrops at Ravenscrag Butte near the Frenchman River by N.B. Davis in 1918.
Pages in category "Stratigraphy of Saskatchewan" The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The Athabasca basin, a historical fluvial siliciclastic basin with sediments from the Hudsonian mountains with the occasional rare marine sequence. [16] [dead link ] The Athabasca basin was formed during the Statherian or Paleohelikian 1.7 to 1.6 billion years ago when coarse fluvial and marine clastic sediments were laid down containing gold, copper, lead, zinc, and uranium oxides.
This is a list of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Saskatchewan, Canada. Group or formation Period Notes Ashville Formation: Cretaceous: Bearpaw Formation:
The Saskatchewan Group is a stratigraphical unit of Frasnian age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. It takes the name from the province of Saskatchewan , and was first described in the Mobil Oil Woodley Sinclair Cantuar X-2-21 well by A.D Baillie in 1953.
The Frenchman Formation is stratigraphic unit of Late Cretaceous (late Maastrichtian) age in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin. It is present in southern Saskatchewan and the Cypress Hills of southeastern Alberta.
The Earlie Formation is a stratigraphic unit of Middle Cambrian age in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin that is present beneath the plains of Alberta and eastern Saskatchewan. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was named for Earlie Lake in the County of Vermilion River , Alberta, by D.C. Pugh in 1971, who described the type section based on data from an oil ...
In Saskatchewan, underground mining of potash is conducted to depths of about 1,100 metres (3,610 ft), and solution mining is used at greater depths. Reserves suitable for underground and solution mining have been estimated at 14 billion tonnes (15 billion short tons) and more than 42 billion tonnes (46 billion short tons), respectively.