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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 ...
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.
Map of Manitoba. The geography of Manitoba addresses the easternmost of the three prairie Canadian provinces, located in the longitudinal centre of Canada. Manitoba borders on Saskatchewan to the west, Ontario to the east, Nunavut to the north, and the American states of North Dakota and Minnesota to the south. Although the border with ...
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 U.S. Geological Survey Library has become one of the largest geoscience libraries in the world. Materials within the library system include books and maps dating back to the 16th and 17th centuries, as well as a nearly complete set of the various State Geological Survey publications.
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 ]
In 1856, at the age of 15 years old, Bell worked as a summer assistant to William Edmond Logan with the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC). Even as he started postsecondary education, he continued to work summers with the GSC, heading his own survey party in 1859. Bell attended McGill University, Montreal, and studied under John William Dawson ...