The Belloy Formation is a stratigraphical unit of Permian age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin .
4-462: It takes the name from the hamlet of Belloy, Alberta , and was first described in the Imperial Belloy 12-14-78-1W6M well by H.L. Halbertsma in 1959. The Belloy Formation is composed of mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sequences of cherty dolomite and sandstone , glauconitic and quartz sandstones, phosphorite , siltstones and conglomerate with phosphatic chert pebbles. The Belloy
8-817: Is unconformably overlies Mississippian sediments such as those of the Rundle Group . The Belloy Formation is homotaxial with the Belcourt Formation and Kindle Formation of the Rocky Mountains . This article about a specific stratigraphic formation in Canada is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Belloy, Alberta Belloy is a ghost town in Alberta , Canada within Birch Hills County . It
12-523: Is located along the Grande Prairie-Grande Cache Railway tracks, north of Alberta Highway 49 , between Wanham and Girouxville . It is part of census division No. 19 and is administered by Birch Hills County . The community has the name of one Octavie Belloy , an opera singer who entertained Belgian troops. Agriculture is the main activity in the community, which was built around cattle farming. Services for
16-594: Was deposited along a northwest-trending, tidally-influenced, west-prograding shoreline. The Belloy Formation reaches a maximum thickness of 274 metres (900 ft) in the Canadian Rockies foothills south of Fort St. John . It thins out towards the east and occurs in the sub-surface throughout the Peace River Country . The Belloy Formation is disconformably overlain by Triassic or younger beds ( Montney Formation , Fort St. John Group ). It
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