Belloy Formation
Template:Short description Template:Infobox Rockunit The Belloy Formation is a stratigraphic unit of Permian age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.
It takes the name from the hamlet of Belloy, Alberta, and was first described in the Imperial Belloy 12-14-78-1W6M well by H.L. Halbertsma in 1959.[1]
Lithology and depositional setting
The Belloy Formation is composed of mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sequences of cherty dolomite and sandstone, glauconitic and quartz sandstones, phosphorite, siltstones and conglomerate with phosphatic chert pebbles. The Belloy was deposited along a northwest-trending, tidally-influenced, west-prograding shoreline. [2]
Distribution
The Belloy Formation reaches a maximum thickness of Script error: No such module "convert". in the Canadian Rockies foothills south of Fort St. John. It thins out towards the east and occurs in the sub-surface throughout the Peace River Country.
Relationship to other units
The Belloy Formation is disconformably overlain by Triassic or younger beds (Montney Formation, Fort St. John Group). It is unconformably overlies Mississippian sediments such as those of the Rundle Group.
The Belloy Formation is homotaxial with the Belcourt Formation and Kindle Formation of the Rocky Mountains.
References
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- ↑ Halbertsma, Henk Leendert, 1959. Nomenclature of Upper Carboniferous and Permian strata in the subsurface of the Peace River area; Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, Journal of the Alberta Society of Petroleum Geologists, vol. 7, no. 5 (May), pp.109-118.
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- Geologic formations of Alberta
- Geologic formations of British Columbia
- Permian northern paleotemperate deposits
- Permian Alberta
- Permian British Columbia
- Sandstone formations of Canada
- Siltstone formations of Canada
- Conglomerate formations of Canada
- Dolomite formations of Canada
- Chert formations