Mannville Group
Stratigraphic Group in Western Canada / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Mannville Group is a stratigraphical unit of Cretaceous age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.
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Mannville Group | |
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Stratigraphic range: Early Cretaceous | |
Type | Geological group |
Sub-units | Glauconitic Sandstone, Ostracod Beds, Ellerslie Member, Grand Rapids Formation, Clearwater Formation, McMurray Formation, Waseca Sand, Sparky Sand, General Petroleum Sand, Rex Sand, Lloydminster Sand, Cummings Member, Dina Member, Pense Formation, Cantuar Formation, Success Formation |
Underlies | Colorado Group |
Overlies | Rundle Group, Banff Formation, Wabamun Formation |
Thickness | up to 145 metres (480 ft)[1] |
Lithology | |
Primary | Sandstone |
Other | Shale |
Location | |
Coordinates | 53.3087°N 111.1541°W / 53.3087; -111.1541 (Northwest Mannville 1 well) |
Region | Alberta, Saskatchewan |
Country | Canada |
Type section | |
Named for | Mannville, Alberta |
Named by | Nauss, 1945 |
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It takes the name from the town of Mannville, Alberta, and was first described in the Northwest Mannville 1 well by A.W. Nauss in 1945.[2]