| Beaver Mines Formation | |
|---|---|
| Stratigraphic range: Early Cretaceous (Albian) | |
| Type | Formation |
| Unit of | Blairmore Group |
| Underlies | Ma Butte Formation |
| Overlies | Gladstone Formation |
| Thickness | up to 455 m (1,490 ft) |
| Location | |
| Region |  Alberta British Columbia |
| Country |  Canada |
| Type section | |
| Named for | Beaver Mines, Alberta |
| Named by | G.B. Mellon, 1967[1] |
The Beaver Mines Formation is a stratigraphic unit of Early Cretaceous (Albian) age in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin[2] that is present in southwestern Alberta and southeastern British Columbia, Canada. It was established by G.B. Mellon in 1967 who named it for the hamlet of Beaver Mines, Alberta.[1] It contains a variety of plant fossils.[3]
- ^ a b Mellon, G.B. 1967. Stratigraphy and petrography of the Lower Cretaceous Blairmore and Mannville Groups, Alberta foothills and plains. Alberta Research Council, Bulletin 21.
- ^ Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists and Alberta Geological Survey (1994). "The Geological Atlas of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin, Chapter 19: Cretaceous Mannville Group of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin". Compiled by Mossop, G.D. and Shetsen, I. Archived from the original on 2016-07-01. Retrieved 2016-06-20.
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