EAS209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin, Alberta Geological Survey, Winterburn Group
11 Mar 2017
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Eas 209 - dr. clark the kaskaskia sequence actually embraces middle devonian through. Mississippian, but we will handle the mississippian separately; we will ignore the early devonian a useful resource to introduce at this point in the course is the geological. Atlas of the western canada sedimentary basin, compiled by mossop, g. & Shetsen, i. , alberta research council, alberta geological survey; it can be accessed online at www. ags. gov. ab. ca at the close of deposition of the tippecanoe sequence, alberta was approximately equatorial, but by the frasnian (second last age of the. Carbonate platfrom influence of relative sea level behaviour, and the accompanying transgressions (landward movement of the shoreline, in this context to the. Described, including orientation/trend and location: effects of this barrier described in terms of deposition. ; economic impact includes salt mined in alberta at lindbergh, potash mined in southern saskatchewan, and salt solution occurring much later in. Manitoba, leading to formation of hydrocarbon traps in mississippian reservoirs: rainbow/zama area.
