Woodbend Group | |
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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]
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