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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.
Manitoba has an extreme climate, but southern latitudes allow agriculture. The northern area of the region ranges from coniferous forests to muskeg to tundra in the far north. Before settlement had occurred, a vast portion of southern Manitoba was either flood plain or swamp. An extensive system for drainage ditches was required throughout ...
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The Inwood Formation is a geologic formation in Manitoba. ... of the Interlake Group and Stonewall Formation of Southern Manitoba", Geological Survey of Canada ...
Outline of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin. The Western Canada Sedimentary Basin (WCSB) [1] [2] underlies 1.4 million square kilometres (540,000 sq mi) of Western Canada including southwestern Manitoba, southern Saskatchewan, Alberta, northeastern British Columbia and the southwest corner of the Northwest Territories.
The Manitoba Escarpment, or the Western Manitoba Uplands, are a range of hills along the Saskatchewan–Manitoba border. [1] The eastern slopes of the range are considered to be a scarp . They were created by glacial scouring and formed the western shore of prehistoric Lake Agassiz .
The Williston Basin is a large intracratonic sedimentary basin in eastern Montana, western North Dakota, South Dakota, southern Saskatchewan, and south-western Manitoba that is known for its rich deposits of petroleum and potash. The basin is a geologic structural basin but not a topographic depression; it is transected by the Missouri River ...
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 ...