Crowfoot Formation

Crowfoot Formation
Crowfoot Formation
Stratigraphic range: Frasnian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Type	Geological formation
Underlies	Stettler Formation
Overlies	Southesk Formation
Thickness	up to 38 metres (120 ft)
Lithology
Primary	Anhydrite, dolomite
Other	Shale
Location
Coordinates	50°44′53″N 112°35′13″W / 50.748°N 112.587°W
Region	Alberta ; Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin
Country	Canada
Type section
Named for	Crowfoot Creek
Named by	H.R. Belyea and D.J. McLaren, 1957

The Crowfoot Formation is a stratigraphical unit of Frasnian age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.

It takes the name from Crowfoot Creek, a tributary of the Bow River and was first described in the Royalite Crowfoot No. 2 well, located near the creek by H.R. Belyea and D.J. McLaren in 1957. ^[2]

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^ Belyea, H.R. and McLaren, D.J., 1957. Upper Devonian nomenclature in southern Alberta. Journal of the Alberta Society of Petroleum Geologists, v. S. p.166-182.

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[2] Belyea, H.R. and McLaren, D.J., 1957. Upper Devonian nomenclature in southern Alberta. Journal of the Alberta Society of Petroleum Geologists, v. S. p.166-182.

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Crowfoot Formation
Stratigraphic range: Frasnian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Type	Geological formation
Underlies	Stettler Formation
Overlies	Southesk Formation
Thickness	up to 38 metres (120 ft)^[1]
Lithology
Primary	Anhydrite, dolomite
Other	Shale
Location
Coordinates	50°44′53″N 112°35′13″W / 50.748°N 112.587°W / 50.748; -112.587 (Crowfoot Formation)
Region	Alberta Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin
Country	Canada
Type section
Named for	Crowfoot Creek
Named by	H.R. Belyea and D.J. McLaren, 1957