Spray Lakes Group
The Spray Lakes Group is a stratigraphic unit that is present on the western edge of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin in the southern Canadian Rockies, and it comprises the Pennsylvanian-age strata of that region. It was named after the Spray Lakes near Banff, Alberta, and fossils of marine invertebrates are found in some of its strata.
Spray Lakes Group | |
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Stratigraphic range: | |
Type | Group |
Sub-units | Kananaskis Formation Tunnel Mountain Formation |
Underlies | Ishbel Group |
Overlies | Rundle Group |
Thickness | More than 600 metres (2000 ft) |
Lithology | |
Primary | dolomite, limestone |
Other | Sandstone, quartzite, chert |
Location | |
Coordinates | 50°48′24.1″N 115°15′47.9″W |
Region | Alberta |
Country | Canada |
Type section | |
Named for | Spray Lakes, Alberta |
Named by | A. McGugan and J.E. Rapson, 1963 |
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