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Alberta Group
Stratigraphic range: Albian to Campanian
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TypeGeological formation
Sub-unitsWapiabi Formation, Chungo Member, Cardium Formation, Blackstone Formation, Jumping Pound Member
UnderliesBelly River Formation
OverliesBlairmore Group, Luscar Group, Crowsnest Formation
Thicknessup to 1,219 feet (370 m)[1]
Lithology
PrimaryShale, sandstone
OtherSiltstone, siderite, limestone
Location
RegionAlberta Group Alberta
CountryAlberta Group Canada
Type section
Named forAlberta
Named byG.S. Hume, 1930

The Alberta Group is a stratigraphical unit of Cenomanian to early Campanian age in the Lewis overthrust in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.[2]

It takes the name from the province of Alberta, and was first described in outcrops along the Highwood River in southern Alberta by G.S. Hume in 1930.[3]

  1. ^ Lexicon of Canadian Geologic Units. "Alberta Group". Archived from the original on 2013-02-21. Retrieved 2009-03-01.
  2. ^ Sears, James W.; Harms, Tekla A.; Evenchick, Carol A., eds. (2007). Whence the Mountains?: Inquiries Into the Evolution of Orogenic Systems: a Volume in Honor of Raymond A. Price. United States: Geological Society of America. p. 171. ISBN 978-0-8137-2433-1 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ Hume, G.S., 1930. The Highwood-Jumpingpound Anticline, with Notes on Turner Valley, New Black Diamond and Priddis Valley Structures, Alberta; Geological Survey of Canada, Summary Report 1929, Part B, pp. 1-24.

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