| Belloy Formation | |
|---|---|
| Stratigraphic range: | |
| Type | Geological formation |
| Underlies | Montney Formation, Fort St. John Group |
| Overlies | Rundle Group, Stoddart Group |
| Thickness | up to 274 metres (900 ft)[1] |
| Lithology | |
| Primary | Chert |
| Other | Sandstone, siltstone, conglomerate, dolomite |
| Location | |
| Coordinates | 55°45′37″N 118°02′55″W / 55.7604°N 118.0487°W |
| Region |  Alberta,  British Columbia |
| Country |  Canada |
| Type section | |
| Named for | Belloy, Alberta |
| Named by | H.L. Halbertsma, 1959 |
The Belloy Formation is a stratigraphical unit of Permian age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.
It takes the name from the hamlet of Belloy, Alberta, and was first described in the Imperial Belloy 12-14-78-1W6M well by H.L. Halbertsma in 1959.[2]
- ^ Lexicon of Canadian Geologic Units. "Belloy Formation". Archived from the original on 2012-07-08. Retrieved 2009-02-12.
- ^ Halbertsma, Henk Leendert, 1959. Nomenclature of Upper Carboniferous and Permian strata in the subsurface of the Peace River area; Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, Journal of the Alberta Society of Petroleum Geologists, vol. 7, no. 5 (May), pp.109-118.