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Mount Whyte Formation

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Aitken, J.D. 1971. Control of lower Paleozoic sedimentary facies by the Kicking Horse Rim, southern Rocky Mountains, Canada. Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology, vol. 19, no. 3, p. 557-569.
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in the southern Rocky Mountains of southwestern Alberta and southeastern British Columbia, and is present in the subsurface beneath the southwestern Alberta plains where it grades onto the
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Slind, O.L., Andrews, G.D., Murray, D.L., Norford, B.S., Paterson, D.F., Salas, C.J., and Tawadros, E.E., Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists and Alberta Geological Survey (1994).
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Rasetti, F. 1951. Middle Cambrian stratigraphy and faunas of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, vol. 116, no. 5, 277 p.
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Aitken, J.D. 1997. Stratigraphy of the Middle Cambrian platformal succession, southern Rocky Mountains. Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin 398, 322 p.
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Walcott, C.D. 1908. Nomenclature of some Cambrian Cordilleran formations. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, vol. 53, no. 1, 14 pp.
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Basal member: Thin-bedded limestones and sandy limestones with lenticular beds of pebbly sandstone and shale partings.
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Walcott, C.D. 1917. Geology and paleontology IV. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, vol. 67, no. 3, p. 61-115.
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and other fossil trilobites that establish its Middle Cambrian age by
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and the adjacent southwestern Alberta plains. It was deposited during
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List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in British Columbia
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Index

Stratigraphic range
Middle Cambrian
Ma
PreꞒ

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Pg
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Formation
Cathedral Formation
Gog Group
Shale
limestone
Sandstone
conglomerate
Coordinates
51°24′32″N 116°16′16″W / 51.40889°N 116.27111°W / 51.40889; -116.27111 (Mount Whyte Formation)
Canadian Rockies
Canada
Mount Whyte
Charles Doolittle Walcott
stratigraphic
Western Canada Sedimentary Basin

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