Smoky Group
The Smoky Group is a stratigraphical unit of Late Cretaceous age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.
| Smoky Group | |
|---|---|
| Stratigraphic range: | |
Kaskapau Shale exposed along the Pouce Coupe River | |
| Type | Geological group |
| Sub-units | Puskwaskau Formation Bad Heart Formation Kaskapau Formation |
| Underlies | Wapiti Group |
| Overlies | Dunvegan Formation |
| Thickness | up to 1,100 feet (340 m) |
| Lithology | |
| Primary | Shale, sandstone, siltstone |
| Location | |
| Region | Alberta, British Columbia |
| Country | Canada |
| Type section | |
| Named for | Smoky River |
| Named by | George Mercer Dawson, 1881. |
It takes the name from the Smoky River and was first described in outcrops along the banks of the Smoky River, Spirit River and Pouce Coupe Rivers by George Mercer Dawson in 1881.
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