Gething Formation
Stratigraphic Unit in Western Canada / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Gething Formation is a stratigraphic unit of Lower Cretaceous (Aptian) age in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin. It is present in northeastern British Columbia and western Alberta, and includes economically important coal deposits.
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Gething Formation | |
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Stratigraphic range: Barremian-early Albian ~125–110 Ma | |
Type | Geological formation |
Unit of | Bullhead Group |
Underlies | Fort St. John Group, Bluesky Formation |
Overlies | Cadomin Formation |
Thickness | up to 550 metres (1,800 ft)[1] |
Lithology | |
Primary | Sandstone, siltstone |
Other | Conglomerate, coal, shale |
Location | |
Coordinates | 56.00504°N 122.23972°W / 56.00504; -122.23972 (Gething Formation) |
Approximate paleocoordinates | 57.7°N 70.0°W / 57.7; -70.0 |
Region | Canadian Rockies foothills, western Alberta, northeastern British Columbia |
Country | Canada |
Type section | |
Named for | Gething Creek, Gething Mountain, Gething mine |
Named by | McLearn, F.H.[2] |
Year defined | 1923 |
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The formation is named for Gething Creek, a right tributary of the Peace River west of Hudson's Hope, and the nearby Gething Mountain. It was first described by F.H. McLearn in 1923[2] in the Peace River Canyon, an area that was partly inundated in 1968 by the Williston Lake after the construction of the W. A. C. Bennett Dam.