Beaver Mines Formation
The Beaver Mines Formation is a stratigraphic unit of Early Cretaceous (Albian) age in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin that is present in southwestern Alberta and southeastern British Columbia, Canada. It was established by G.B. Mellon in 1967 who named it for the hamlet of Beaver Mines, Alberta. It contains a variety of plant fossils.
| Beaver Mines Formation | |
|---|---|
| Stratigraphic range: Early Cretaceous (Albian) | |
| Type | Formation |
| Unit of | Blairmore Group |
| Underlies | Ma Butte Formation |
| Overlies | Gladstone Formation |
| Thickness | up to 455 m (1,490 ft) |
| Location | |
| Region | Alberta British Columbia |
| Country | Canada |
| Type section | |
| Named for | Beaver Mines, Alberta |
| Named by | G.B. Mellon, 1967 |
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