Bullhead Group
Template:Short description Template:Infobox Rockunit Bullhead Group is a stratigraphic unit of Lower Cretaceous age in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin of northeastern British Columbia and western Alberta.[1] It was first defined by F.H. McLearn in 1918 as the Bullhead Mountain Formation,[2] but later was upgraded to group status. It consists of the Cadomin and Gething Formations, although some early workers included the Bluesky Formation and others in the group.[3]
Lithology
Bullhead Group includes the conglomerate and quartzose sandstones of the Cadomin Formation at the base, and grades to sandstone, siltstone, mudstone, shale and coal seams of the overlying Gething Formation. Those sediments were deposited in alluvial fan, braided river, deltaic and coastal plain environments.[3]
Distribution
The Bullhead Group is present in the foothills of the Northern Rocky Mountains and the adjacent plains, extending from the Tuchodi River of British Columbia in the north to the Smoky River of Alberta in the south. It thins eastward from about Script error: No such module "convert". in the western foothills of northeastern British Columbia to about Script error: No such module "convert". in the Peace River plains, reaching zero near Fort St. John. The most complete section is found in the type locality of the Gething Formation in the Peace River Canyon immediately downstream from the W. A. C. Bennett Dam.[4]
Relationship to other units
The Bullhead Group overlies a major regional unconformity caused by pre-Bullhead erosion.[3] It rests unconformably on the Fernie Formation, the Nikanassin Formation, the Minnes Group or the Kootenay Group, depending on the location and the extent of the erosion. It is overlain conformably by the glauconitic sandstones and marine shales at the base of the Fort St. John Group.[4]
References
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- ↑ a b c Stott, D.F. 1965. Lower Cretaceous Bullhead and Fort St John Groups, between Smoky and Peace Rivers, Rocky Mountain foothills, Alberta and British Columbia. Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin 152, 279 p. Template:ISBN.
- ↑ a b Glass, D.J. (editor) 1997. Lexicon of Canadian Stratigraphy, vol. 4, Western Canada including eastern British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and southern Manitoba. Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, Calgary, 1423 p. on CD-ROM. Template:ISBN.
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- Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin
- Cretaceous British Columbia
- Geologic groups of British Columbia
- Barremian Stage
- Aptian Stage
- Albian Stage
- Geologic groups of Alberta
- Cretaceous Alberta
- Coal groups
- Conglomerate groups
- Sandstone groups of Canada
- Siltstone groups