ⓘ Sully Formation
The Fort St. John Group is a stratigraphic unit of Lower Cretaceous age in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin. It takes the name from the city of Fort St. John, British Columbia and was first defined by George Mercer Dawson in 1881.
1. Lithology
The Fort St. John Group is mostly composed of dark shale deposited in a marine environment. Bentonite is present in the shale, and it is interbedded with sandstone, siltstone and conglomerates.
2. Distribution
The Fort St. John Group occurs in the subsurface in the Peace River Country of northeastern British Columbia and north-western Alberta, in southern Yukon and southern Northwest Territories. It has a thickness of 700 metres 2.300 ft to 2.000 metres 6.560 ft.
3. Relationship to other units
The Fort St. John Group is conformably overlain by the Dunvegan Formation and conformably underlain by the Bullhead Group or may rest disconformably on older units.
Subdivisions
The Fort St. John Group is subdivided into the following formations:
Liard River and Fort Liard Area
*Buckinghorse Formation is equivalent to the sum of Lepine Formation, Scatter Formation and Garbutt Formation. It occurs north-east of the Canadian Rockies foothills in British Columbia, between the Halfway River and Muskwa River. It is composed of silty marine mudstone with fine grained marine sandstone interbeds.
Bad Heart Formation |
Belcourt Formation |
Birch Lake Member |
Birdbear Formation |
Bison Creek Formation |
Blackstone Formation |
Blairmore Group |
Blue Ridge Member |
Bocock Formation |
Bowdoin Sandstone |
Brosseau Member |
Cadotte Member |
Calmar Formation |
Charlie Lake Formation |
Chungo Member |
Colony Sand |
Commotion Formation |
Cruiser Formation |
Cummings Member |
Cutbank Formation |
Cutbank Sandstone |
Detrital Beds |
Dina Member |
Doe Creek Member |
Duperow Formation |
Eastend Formation |
Elkton Member |
Ellerslie Member |
Falher Member |
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Rock Creek Member |
Flume Formation |
Fort Simpson Formation |
Garbutt Formation |
Gates Formation |
General Petroleum Sand |
Ghost River Formation |
Gilwood Member |
Gladstone Formation |
Goodrich Formation |
Graminia Formation |
Grand Rapids Formation |
Grosmont Formation |
Halfway Formation |
Harmon Member |
Hasler Formation |
Highwood Member |
Howard Creek Member |
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Telford Formation |
Johnston Canyon Formation |
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