| Mount Wilson Formation | |
|---|---|
| Stratigraphic range: Late Ordovician ~ | |
| Type | Formation |
| Underlies | Beaverfoot Formation |
| Overlies | Owen Creek Formation or Glenogle Formation |
| Thickness | Up to about 450 m (1476 feet)[1] |
| Lithology | |
| Primary | Quartz sandstone |
| Location | |
| Coordinates | 52°00′00″N 116°45′00″W / 52.00000°N 116.75000°W |
| Region |  Alberta British Columbia |
| Country |  Canada |
| Type section | |
| Named for | Mount Wilson |
| Named by | C.D. Walcott, 1923[2] |
The Mount Wilson Formation is a stratigraphic unit of Late Ordovician age. It is present on the western edge of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin in the Rocky Mountains of Alberta and British Columbia. It consists of quartz sandstone, and was named for the Mount Wilson in Banff National Park by C.D. Walcott in 1923.[1][2][3]
- ^ a b Glass, D.J. (editor) 1997. Lexicon of Canadian Stratigraphy, vol. 4, Western Canada including eastern British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and southern Manitoba, p. 830. Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, Calgary, 1423 p. on CD-ROM. ISBN 0-920230-23-7.
- ^ a b Walcott, C.D. 1923. Nomenclature of some post-Cambrian and Cambrian Cordillrean formations: Cambrian geology and paleontology, Part 4. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, vol. 67, no. 8, p. 457-476.
- ^ Norford, B.S. 1969. Ordovician and Silurian stratigraphy of the southern Rocky Mountains. Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin 176.