Smoky Group
| Smoky Group | |
|---|---|
| Stratigraphic range: | |
Kaskapau Shale exposed along the Pouce Coupe River | |
| Type | Geological group |
| Sub-units | Puskwaskau Formation Bad Heart Formation Kaskapau Formation |
| Underlies | Wapiti Group |
| Overlies | Dunvegan Formation |
| Thickness | up to 1,100 feet (340 m) |
| Lithology | |
| Primary | Shale, sandstone, siltstone |
| Location | |
| Region | Alberta, British Columbia |
| Country | Canada |
| Type section | |
| Named for | Smoky River |
| Named by | George Mercer Dawson, 1881. |
The Smoky Group is a stratigraphic unit of Late Cretaceous age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.
It takes the name from the Smoky River and was first described in outcrops along the banks of the Smoky River, Spirit River and Pouce Coupe Rivers by George Mercer Dawson in 1881.