| Woodbend Group | |
|---|---|
| Stratigraphic range: | |
| Type | Geological group |
| Sub-units | Cooking Lake Formation Duvernay Formation Leduc Formation Ireton Formation |
| Underlies | Winterburn Group |
| Overlies | Beaverhill Lake Group |
| Thickness | up to 700 metres (2,300 ft)[1] |
| Lithology | |
| Primary | Limestone, dolomite |
| Other | Shale |
| Location | |
| Coordinates | 53°20′42″N 113°41′42″W / 53.34507°N 113.6949°W |
| Region |  Alberta British Columbia Saskatchewan Manitoba Northwest Territories Yukon |
| Country |  Canada |
| Type section | |
| Named by | Imperial Oil |
| Year defined | 1950 |
The Woodbend Group is a stratigraphical unit of Frasnian age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.
It was first described in the British American Pyrcz No. 1 well by Imperial Oil geological staff in 1950.[2]
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
lexiconwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Imperial Oil Limited, Geological Staff, Western Division, 1950. Devonian nomenclature in Edmonton area, Alberta, Canada. Bull. American Association of Petroleum Geologists, v. 34, p. 1807-1825