Cree: paskapiw, lit. 'He is blind', from Blindman River
Named by
J.B. Tyrrell, 1887
The Paskapoo Formation is a stratigraphic unit of Middle to Late Paleocene age in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin.[2] The Paskapoo underlies much of southwestern Alberta,[3] and takes the name from the Blindman River (paskapiw means 'He is blind' in Cree[4]). It was first described from outcrops along that river, near its confluence with the Red Deer River north of the city of Red Deer, by Joseph Tyrrell in 1887.[5] It is important for its freshwater aquifers, its coal resources, and its fossil record, as well as having been the source of sandstone for the construction of fire-resistant buildings in Calgary during the early 1900s.
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^Tyrrell, J.B., 1887. Report on a part of northern Alberta and portions of adjacent Districts of Assiniboia and Saskatchewan; Geological Survey of Canada, Annual Report 1886, v.11, Part E, p.1-176
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