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Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology
Vol. 33 (1985), No. 1. (March), Pages 1-11

Lower Cretaceous Luscar Group (Revised) of the Northern and North-central Foothills of Alberta

C. Willem Langenberg, Margaret E. McMechan

ABSTRACT

The Luscar Group (revised) forms the sequence of coal-bearing Lower Cretaceous strata that disconformably overlies marine and nonmarine strata of the Nikanassin Formation or Minnes Group and disconformably underlies marine shales of the Blackstone or Shaftesbury formations. It includes a thin, basal conglomerate, a predominantly nonmarine sandstone and shale unit that locally contains coal; a marine shale and sandstone unit, and an upper nonmarine sandstone and shale unit that contains thick commercial coal seams. These units form the Cadomin, Gladstone, Moosebar and Gates formations, respectively. The Luscar Group is exposed from Kakwa River to Clearwater River in the Foothills of Alberta. It represents a slight modification, by the inclusion of the thin basal conglomerate, from the previous usage of the term Luscar in the northern Foothills of Alberta.

The Luscar Group is correlative with the Bullhead Group and the lower part of the Fort St. John Group of northeastern British Columbia, and the Blairmore Group of the south-central and southern Foothills of Alberta. The Luscar Group is distinguished from the non-coal-bearing Blairmore Group by the presence of thick coal seams and a mappable marine shale unit.

LE GROUPE LUSCAR (REVISE) DU CRETACE INFERIEUR DU NORD ET DU CENTRE-NORD DES AVANT-MONTS DE L'ALBERTA

RESUME

Le Groupe Luscar (revise) forme la sequence carbonifere du Cretace Inferieur qui recouvre disconformement les strates marines et non-marines de la Formation Nikanassin du Groupe Minnes et qui est disconformement sous-jacent aux argiles marines feuilletees des formations Blackstone ou Shaftesbury. Ce groupe comprend une mince couche conglomeratique de base; une unite de gres et d'argile feuilletee a predominance non-marine, localement carbonifere; une unite d'argile feuilletee et de gres d'origine marine et une unite superieure de gres et d'argile feuilletee non-marine, contenant des couches epaisses et economiques de charbon. Ces diverses unites de mesure forment respectivement les formations Cadomin, Gladstone, Moosebar et Gates. Le Groupe Luscar affleure de la Riviere Kakwa a la Riviere Clearwater dans les avant-monts (i.e., Foothills) de l'Alberta. L'inclusion de la mince couche conglomeratique de base dans sa definition represente une legere modification de l'usage precedent du terme Luscar dans le nord des avant-monts de l'Alberta.

Le Groupe Luscar est correlatif du Groupe Bullhead et de la partie inferieure du Groupe Fort St. John du nord-est de la Colombie-Britannique et du Groupe Blairmore du centre-sud et des avant-monts de l'Alberta. Le Groupe Luscar est differencie du Groupe Blairmore non-carbonifere par la presence de couches epaisses de charbon et d'argile feuilletee marine cartographiable.


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