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Ellis Group

Geological group in Alberta, Canada and Montana, U.S. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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The Ellis Group is a stratigraphic unit of Bajocian-Oxfordian age in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Montana and Wyoming in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. It takes the name from Fort Ellis, Montana, and was first described in outcrop in the Rocky Creek Canyon by A.C. Peale in 1893.[2]

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Gypsum bed in the Piper Formation, Big Horn Basin of Wyoming.
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Lithology

The Ellis Group is composed of shale and sandstones deposited in a marine and transitional environment. [1]

Hydrocarbon production

Oil is produced from the Sawtooth Formation in southeastern Alberta.

Distribution

The Ellis Group laterally occurs in the subsurface in southern Alberta and northern and central Montana.[1] It is typically 80 metres (260 ft), but thickens on either side of the Sweetgrass Arch and reaches up to 150 metres (490 ft) in southeastern Alberta.

Subdivisions

The Ellis Group includes the following formations, from top to bottom:

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Relationship to other units

The Ellis Group is unconformably overlain by the shales and sandstones of the Mannville Group and rests on the carbonates of the Rundle Group. It grades westwards to the shales of the Fernie Group, and eastwards to the shale, sandstones and limestones of the Vanguard and Shaunavon Formations.[1]

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