Slave Point Formation
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The Slave Point Formation is a stratigraphical unit of Middle Devonian age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.
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Slave Point Formation | |
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Stratigraphic range: Middle Devonian | |
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 | 61.18183°N 115.93443°W / 61.18183; -115.93443 (Slave Point Formation) |
Region | WCSB |
Country | ![]() |
Type section | |
Named for | Slave Point, Great Slave Lake |
Named by | Cameron, A.E., 1918 |
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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.