Devonian Cairn Formation rock - Calgary, Alberta
N 51° 04.939 W 114° 08.098
11U E 700664 N 5662883
This very large example of Devonian Cairn Formation is outside the Geological Survey of Canada building in Calgary.
Waymark Code: WMEKG5
Location: Alberta, Canada
Date Posted: 06/09/2012
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This very large example of Devonian Cairn Formation is outside the Geological Survey of Canada building in Calgary (formerly the Institute of Sedimentary and Petroleum Geology or ISPG).
The plaque reads:
"Institute of Sedimentary and Petroleum Geology"
"Opened by Honourable Jean-Luc Pepin
"Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources
"On Tuesday September 5, 1967
"The rock is a sample of Cairn formation, of late Devonian age, collected from White Man Gap, near Canmore, Alberta. This type of rock is characteristic of many Devonian oil and gas reservoirs beneath the plains of Western Canada.
"L'institut de geologie sedimentaire et petroliare
"Inaugure par l'honorable Jean-Luc Pepin
"Ministre de l'energie, des mines et des ressources
"le mardi 5 septembre, 1967
"La roche est une echantillon de la formation de Cairn du Devonien superieur preleve a White Man Gap, pres de Canmore, Alberta. Ce genre des roches est caracteristique des reservoirs Devoniens de petrole et de gaz sous-jacents aux plaines de l'ouest Canadien."
Cairn Formation is an ancient reef, and is best known as the geological formation where oil was first found in Alberta's Leduc oil strike in 1941. See link