Belly River Group
Stratigraphical unit of Late Cretaceous age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Belly River Group is a stratigraphical unit of Late Cretaceous age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.
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Belly River Formation | |
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Stratigraphic range: Santonian to Campanian | |
Type | Group |
Underlies | Bearpaw Formation |
Overlies | Wapiabi Formation |
Thickness | up to 1,300 metres (4,270 ft)[1] |
Lithology | |
Primary | Sandstone, Shale |
Other | Conglomerate, Coal, Bentonite |
Location | |
Coordinates | 49.63161°N 112.87537°W / 49.63161; -112.87537 (Belly River Formation) |
Region | Alberta |
Country | Canada |
Type section | |
Named for | Belly River |
Named by | George Mercer Dawson, 1883 |
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It takes the name from the Belly River, a tributary of the Oldman River in southern Alberta, and was first described in outcrop on the banks of the Oldman River (at the time considered part of the Belly River) and Bow River by George Mercer Dawson in 1883.[2]