Pakowki Formation
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The Pakowki Formation is a stratigraphical unit of Campanian age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.
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Pakowki Formation | |
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Stratigraphic range: Campanian | |
Type | Geological formation |
Underlies | Foremost Formation, Judith River Formation |
Overlies | Milk River Formation |
Thickness | up to 200 metres (660 ft)[1] |
Lithology | |
Primary | Shale |
Other | Siltstone, sandstone |
Location | |
Coordinates | 49.19251°N 111.06669°W / 49.19251; -111.06669 (Pakowki Formation) |
Region | WCSB |
Country | Canada |
Type section | |
Named for | Pakowki Lake |
Named by | D.B. Dowling, 1916 |
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It takes the name from Pakowki Lake, and was first described in outcrop along the Pakowki Coulee by D.B. Dowling in 1916.[2]