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Wabamun Formation

Wabamun Formation
Stratigraphic range: Famennian
Type Geological formation
Sub-units Crossfield Member
Underlies Exshaw Formation, Blairmore Group, Mannville Group
Overlies Graminia Formation (Winterburn Group)
Thickness up to 240 metres (790 ft)
Lithology
Primary Limestone, dolostone
Other Anhydrite
Location
Coordinates 53°23′06″N 114°30′44″W / 53.3851°N 114.5123°W / 53.3851; -114.5123 (Anglo Canadian Wabamun Lake No. 1)
Region  Alberta
Country  Canada
Type section
Named for Wabamun Lake
Named by Imperial Oil, 1950

The Wabamun Formation is a stratigraphic unit of Late Devonian (Famennian) age in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin. It takes the name from Wabamun Lake and was first described in the Anglo Canadian Wabamun Lake No. 1 well (located between the Wabamun Lake and the North Saskatchewan River) by Imperial Oil in 1950.

The Wabamun Formation is composed of dolomitic limestone and calcareous dolostone with anhydrite interbeds. Halite and anhydrite are present at the base of the formation in the Stettler region. It is composed entirely of limestone in north-western Alberta. Secondary pyrite is found at the top of the formation.

The Wabamun Formation had an initial established recoverable oil reserve of 7.2 million m³, with 3.2 million m³ already produced as of 2008.Gas reserves totaled 102.8 million m³, with 53.5 million m³ already produced.

The Wabamun Formation reaches a maximum thickness of 240 metres (790 ft) in the sub-surface of central Alberta. It thins out and wedges towards the east, and thickens towards the Canadian Rockies foothills.

The Wabamun Formation is disconformably overlain by the Exshaw Formation in southern Alberta, by the Blairmore Group in western Alberta and by the Mannville Group in eastern Alberta. It rests conformably on the Graminia Formation siltstone of the Winterburn Group.


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