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Skoki Formation

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Glass, D.J. (editor) 1997. Lexicon of Canadian Stratigraphy, vol. 4, Western Canada including eastern British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and southern Manitoba. Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, Calgary, 1423 p. on CD-ROM.
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of Alberta and British Columbia. It reaches a thickness of up to 186 metres (610 ft) in the southern Rockies and about 500 metres (1800 ft) in the northern Rockies. It conformably overlies 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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Aitken, J.D. 1966. Middle Cambrian to Middle Ordovician cyclic sedimentation, southern Rocky Mountains of Alberta. Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology, vol. 14, no. 6, p. 405-441.
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Walcott, C.D. 1928. Pre-Devonian Paleozoic formations of the Cordilleran Provinces of Canada; Part 5. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, vol. 75, no. 5, p. 175-368.
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The Skoki Formation formed as a shallow marine shelf along the western shoreline of the
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during Early to Middle Ordovician time. Most of the original
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Index

Stratigraphic range
Middle Ordovician
Ma
PreꞒ

O
S
D
C
P
T
J
K
Pg
N
Formation
Owen Creek Formation
Outram Formation
Tipperary Quartzite
dolomite
Limestone
Coordinates
51°32′00″N 116°03′39″W / 51.53333°N 116.06083°W / 51.53333; -116.06083 (Skoki Formation)
Canadian Rockies
Canada
Skoki Mountain
Charles Doolittle Walcott
stratigraphic
Early
Middle Ordovician

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