59°10′21″N118°44′54″W / 59.1725°N 118.7482°W / 59.1725; -118.7482 (Steen River 2-22-117-5W6M)
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Alberta British Columbia
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Canada
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Named by
J. Law[2]
The Muskeg Formation is a geologic formation of Middle Devonian (Givetian) age in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin. It extends from the plains of northwestern Alberta to northeastern British Columbia,[3] and includes important petroleum and natural gas reservoirs in the Zama lake and Rainbow Lake areas of northwestern Alberta.[4]
^Lexicon of Canadian Geological Units. "Muskeg Formation". Retrieved 2009-02-10.
^Cite error: The named reference Law was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Mossop, G.D. and Shetsen, I., (compilers), Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists and Alberta Geological Survey (1994). "The Geological Atlas of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin, Chapter 10: Devonian Elk Point Group of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin". Retrieved 2014-10-17.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^McCamis, J.G. and Griffith L.S. 1967. Middle Devonian facies relationships, Zama area, Alberta. Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology, v. 15, no. 4, p. 434-467.
The MuskegFormation is a geologic formation of Middle Devonian (Givetian) age in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin. It extends from the plains of northwestern...
been subdivided into numerous formations, number of which host major petroleum and natural gas reservoirs. The formations of the Elk Point Group are composed...
limit of the formation occurs at about 58° north latitude in Alberta, where the Prairie Evaporite grades into the anyhdritic MuskegFormation through a decrease...
Group is equivalent to the MuskegFormation in northern Alberta, while the upper part correlates with the Beaverhill Lake Formation. Lexicon of Canadian Geologic...
floor which trapped the hydrocarbons of the McMurray Formation. The oil sands resources of the Muskeg River Mine are a legacy of the Albian Sea. At full...
(980 ft). The Keg River Formation is conformably overlain by the MuskegFormation and unconformably overlays the Chinchaga Formation. It is equivalent to...
extends throughout the plains of the Peace River Country. The Pardonet Formation has its type locality at Pardonet Hill, on the south shore of the Williston...
and siltstone. Pinnacle reefs develop in the Nisku Formation. Oil is produced from the Nisku Formation in the Pembina oil field. The Winterburn Group reaches...
Fitzgerald Formation. It is equivalent to MuskegFormation in northern Alberta, the Dunedin Formation in British Columbia and the upper Nahanni Formation in western...
Oil geological staff in 1950. The Formation is composed of crystalline and dolomitized limestone (Cooking Lake Formation) in off-reef areas, bituminous shale...
estuarine areas such as oxbow lakes, peat bogs, limnic and coastal swamps, and muskegs. When plants die in such an anaerobic aquatic environment, low oxygen levels...
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Mount Head Formation and Livingstone Formation in the Rocky Mountains; by the Turner Valley Formation, Shunda Formation and Pekisko Formation in the foothills...
Slave Point Formation and Waterways Formation in northeastern Alberta, with the Slave Point Formation and the lower Hay River Formation in the District...
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scenery, in particular for its Cambrian sandstone rock formations and tributary canyons. The formations are divided into the "Upper Dells" and the "Lower Dells"...
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