Stony Mountain Formation

Stony Mountain Formation
Stratigraphic range: Ashgill
Type Geological formation
Underlies Stonewall Formation
Overlies Red River Formation
Thickness up to 45 metres (150 ft)[1]
Lithology
Primary Dolomite, shale
Other Anhydrite, limestone
Location
Named for Stony Mountain, Manitoba
Named by D.B. Dowling, 1900
Region WCSB
Williston Basin
Country  Canada
 United States

The Stony Mountain Formation is a stratigraphical unit of Ashgill age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.

It takes the name from the community Stony Mountain, Manitoba, and was first described in the town quarry by D.B. Dowling in 1900.[2]

Contents

Lithology

Subdivisions

The Stony Mountain Formation is divided in the following sub-units: [1]

South (Williston Basin)
North

Distribution

The Stony Mountain Formation occurs throughout the Williston Basin.[1] It reaches a maximum thickness of 45 metres (150 ft) in the sub-surface at the Canada/United States border, and thins out towards the east, north and west. In Manitoba, where it is exposed at the surface in the erosion belt, it has a thickness of 30 metres (100 ft).

Relationship to other units

The Stony Mountain Formation is slightly unconformably overlain by the Stonewall Formation and sharply overlays the Red River Formation or the Herald Formation.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Lexicon of Canadian Geologic Units. "Stony Mountain Formation". http://cgkn1.cgkn.net/weblex/weblex_litho_detail_e.pl?00053:014604. Retrieved 2010-02-04. 
  2. ^ Dowling, D.B., 1900. Report on the Geology of the West Shore and Islands of Lake Winnipeg; Geological Survey of Canada, Annual Report 1898, Volume XI, Part F, with Map 664.