The Kotaneelee Formation is a stratigraphical unit of Late Cretaceous age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin .
3-601: It takes the name from the Kotaneelee River , and was first described in outcrop in the river valley by C.O. Hage in 1945. The Kotaneelee Formation is composed of marine shale , sandstone , conglomerate . The Kotaneelee Formation has a thickness of 152 metres (500 ft) to 305 metres (1,000 ft) . It occurs in outcrop along the Petitot River and Liard River valleys from the Beaver River to
6-850: A stratigraphical unit of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin . The Kotaneelee River originates in Yukon , just west of the Northwest Territories border, on the eastern slopes of the La Biche Range, at an elevation of 1,600 m (5,200 ft). It flows west into the Northwest Territories, then south-east between the La Biche Range and the Northern Kotaneelee Range. It turns again eastwards and separates
9-789: The Kotaneelee River mouth. The Kotaneelee Formation is gradually overlain by the Wapiti Group and conformably overlays the Dunvegan Formation . It is equivalent to the Wapiabi Formation in Alberta . Kotaneelee River The Kotaneelee River is a river in the Northwest Territories of Canada . It is a tributary of the Liard River . It gives the name to the Kotaneelee Formation ,
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