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

• Main Author: Walsh, Warren J. A.
• Other Authors: Arnott, Bill
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of Ottawa (Canada) 1999
• Subjects: Geology; Bluesky; Falher; Notikewin; Spirit River; Valhalla
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10393/8914; https://doi.org/10.20381/ruor-7554

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...