Minnes Group
The Minnes Group, originally named the Minnes Formation, is a geologic unit of latest Jurassic to earliest Cretaceous age in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin. It is present in the northern foothills of the Canadian Rockies and the adjacent plains in northeastern British Columbia and west-central Alberta. Its strata include natural gas reservoirs and minor coal deposits. Fossil dinosaur tracks have been described from one of its formations.
| Minnes Group | |
|---|---|
Stratigraphic range: | |
| Type | Group |
| Sub-units | Gorman Creek Formation Bickford Formation Monach Formation Beattie Peaks Formation Monteith Formation |
| Underlies | Cadomin Formation |
| Overlies | Fernie Formation |
| Thickness | maximum 2,100 m (6,890 ft) |
| Lithology | |
| Primary | Sandstone |
| Other | Siltstone, mudstone, coal |
| Location | |
| Coordinates | 54.1625°N 120.0667°W |
| Region | British Columbia Alberta |
| Country | Canada |
| Type section | |
| Named for | Mount Minnes, British Columbia |
| Named by | W.H. Ziegler and S.A.J. Pocock |
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