Winterburn Group
| Winterburn Group Stratigraphic range: Frasnian |
|
|---|---|
| Type | Geological formation |
| Sub-units | Nisku Formation, Calmar Formation, Graminia Formation, Blue Ridge Member |
| Underlies | Wabamun Group |
| Overlies | Ireton Formation |
| Thickness | up to 150 metres (490 ft)[1] |
| Lithology | |
| Primary | Dolomite, limestone, siltstone |
| Other | Anhydrite, shale |
| Location | |
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| Region |  Alberta |
| Country |  Canada |
| Type section | |
| Named for | Winterburn, Edmonton |
| Named by | Imperial Oil Limited, 1950 |
The Winterburn Group is a stratigraphical unit of Frasnian age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.
It takes the name from Winterburn area located west of Edmonton, and was first described in well P.A. Pyrcz No. 1 by Imperial Oil Limited in 1950.[2]
Contents
Lithology
The Winterburn Group is composed of silty dolomite, evaporite, argillaceous limestone, red and green siltstone, anhydrite, silty dolomite and siltstone. Pinnacle reefs develop in the Nisku Formation. [1]
Hydrocarbon production
Oil is produced from the Nisku Formation in the Pembina oil field.
Distribution
The Winterburn Group reaches a maximum thickness of 150 metres (490 ft) west of the Leduc reef system. In central Alberta it is 30 to 70m thick. It thins out over the Peace River Arch, and disappears in north-eastern British Columbia.[1]
Subdivisions
The Winterburn Group is composed, from bottom to top, of the Nisku, Calmar and Graminia Formations. The Graminia Formation includes the carbonate Blue Ridge Member west of the Rimbey-Meadowbrook reef trend.
| Sub-unit | Age | Lithology | Max. Thickness |
Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Graminia Formation | Frasnian | silty dolomite, anhydrite, siltstone Blue Ridge Member:[3] silty dolomite, siltstone |
18.3 m (60 ft) | [4] |
| Calmar Formation | Frasnian | dolomitic shale and siltstone, anhydrite | 13.4 m (40 ft) | [5] |
| Nisku Formation | Frasnian | crystalline dolomite, dolomitic siltstone, green shale, anhydrite. | 100 m (330 ft) | [6] |
Relationship to other units
The Winterburn Group is conformably overlain by the Wabamun Group and overlays the Ireton Formation, except in the Peace River Arch, where it rests on the Precambrian basement.[1]
It is correlated with the Birdbear Formation and part of the Three Forks Group in Saskatchewan, with the Southesk Formation and Alexo Formation in the Canadian Rockies and with the Redknife Formation and Kakisa Formation in north-eastern British Columbia.
References
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- ↑ Geological Staff, Imperial Oil Limited, Western Division, 1950. Devonian Nomenclature in Edmonton Area, Alberta, Canada. Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Vol. 34, No. 9, pp. 1807-1825.
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