EDMONTON FORMATION 



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paw or Upper Pierre. He evidently confused portions of the Benton 

 formation with the Bearpaw. 



Edmonton Formation 



This formation is described by Canadian geologists as the upper limit 

 of the Cretaceous in western Canada. In the north of Alberta, in its 

 type locality near Edmonton, the formation is noted for coal seams of a 

 sub-bituminous nature. Its upper limit is rather vaguely described, so 



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 3J5 ft: Fer/vie shales 



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Figure 2.- — Cretaceous Sedimentation in the Alberta District of Canada 



that the writer of this paper lias never been certain of where the boundary 

 line should be taken between the Edmonton formation and the Paskapoo 

 formation or between the Cretaceous and Tertiary. In the region here- 

 with described there is a continuous series of light-colored sandstones 



