Woodbend Group
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The Woodbend Group is a stratigraphical unit of Frasnian age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.
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Woodbend Group | |
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Stratigraphic range: Frasnian | |
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 | 53.34507°N 113.6949°W / 53.34507; -113.6949 (Woodbend Group) |
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Named by | Imperial Oil |
Year defined | 1950 |
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It was first described in the British American Pyrcz No. 1 well by Imperial Oil geological staff in 1950.[2]