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Rundle Group
| Rundle Group | |
|---|---|
| Stratigraphic range: | |
 The massive limestone beds form outcrops at the top of Mount Rundle | |
| Type | Geological formation |
| Sub-units | Debolt, Shunda, Pekisko, Mount Head, Livingstone, Turner Valley, Prophet |
| Underlies | Fernie Formation, Belloy Formation |
| Overlies | Banff Formation |
| Thickness | up to 741 metres (2,430 ft)[1] |
| Lithology | |
| Primary | Limestone |
| Other | Chert |
| Location | |
| Coordinates | 51°07′49″N 115°28′40″W / 51.13020°N 115.47765°W |
| Region |  Alberta,  British Columbia |
| Country |  Canada |
| Type section | |
| Named for | Mount Rundle |
| Named by | R.J.W. Douglas, 1953 |
The Rundle Group is a stratigraphical unit of Mississippian age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.
It takes the name from Mount Rundle (itself taking the name from Robert Terrill Rundle), and was first described in outcrops at the northern side of the mountain in Banff National Park by R.J.W. Douglas in 1953.[2]
- ^ Lexicon of Canadian Geologic Units. "Rundle Group". Retrieved 2009-02-12.
- ^ Douglas, R.J.W., 1953b. Carboniferous stratigraphy in the southern Foothills of Alberta; Alberta Soc. Petrol. Geol., 3rd Ann. Field Conf. Guidebook, p. 66–88.
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