Skoki Formation
The Skoki Formation is a stratigraphic unit of Early to Middle Ordovician age that is present on the western edge of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin in the Canadian Rockies of Alberta and British Columbia. It was named for Skoki Mountain near Lake Louise in Banff National Park by Charles Doolittle Walcott in 1928. The Skoki Formation is fossiliferous and includes remains of brachiopods and other marine invertebrates, as well as conodonts and oncolites.
| Skoki Formation | |
|---|---|
| Stratigraphic range: Middle Ordovician ~ | |
| Type | Formation |
| Underlies | Owen Creek Formation |
| Overlies | Outram Formation or Tipperary Quartzite |
| Thickness | Up to 186 metres (610 ft) |
| Lithology | |
| Primary | dolomite |
| Other | Limestone |
| Location | |
| Coordinates | 51°32′00″N 116°03′39″W |
| Region | Canadian Rockies |
| Country | Canada |
| Type section | |
| Named for | Skoki Mountain |
| Named by | Charles Doolittle Walcott |
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