| Slave Point Formation | |
|---|---|
| Stratigraphic range: | |
| Type | Geological formation |
| Underlies | Beaverhill Lake Group, Waterways Formation, Horn River Formation |
| Overlies | Fort Vermilion Formation, Watt Mountain Formation, Sulphur Point Formation, Presqu'ile Formation |
| Thickness | up to 120 metres (390 ft)[1] |
| Lithology | |
| Primary | Limestone, dolomite |
| Other | Shale |
| Location | |
| Coordinates | 61°10′55″N 115°56′04″W / 61.18183°N 115.93443°W |
| Region | WCSB |
| Country |  Canada |
| Type section | |
| Named for | Slave Point, Great Slave Lake |
| Named by | Cameron, A.E., 1918 |
The Slave Point Formation is a stratigraphical unit of Middle Devonian age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.
It takes the name from Slave Point, a promontory on the north-west shore of the Great Slave Lake, and was first described in outcrop on the southern shore of the lake and along the Buffalo River by A.E. Cameron in 1918.[2] It was subsequently defined in the subsurface by J. Law in 1955,[3] based on lithology encountered in the California Standard Steen River 2-22-117-5W6M well in Alberta.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
lexiconwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Cameron, A.E., 1918. Explorations in the vicinity of Great Slave Lake; Geological Survey of Canada, Summary Report 1917, Part C, pp. 21-28.
- ^ Law, James, 1955. Geology of northwestern Alberta and adjacent areas; American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), Bulletin of the AAPG, vol. 39, no. 10 (October), pp. 1927-1975.