Sedimentology and sequence stratigraphic framework of the Lower Cretaceous Bluesky Formation, Valhalla area, west-central Alberta.

• Main Author: Walsh, Warren J. A.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 1999
• Subjects: Geology.; Bluesky; Falher; Notikewin; Spirit River; Valhalla
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-7554; http://www.ruor.uottawa.ca/handle/10393/8914

The Lower Mannville (Aptian) Bluesky and underlying Gething formations of northwestern Alberta were deposited during the transgressive phase of a third order sequence. In west-central Alberta the Bluesky Formation forms a relatively thin succession of mostly shallow-marine strata that overlies a thi...