The Mannville Group is a stratigraphical unit of Cretaceous age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin .
7-498: It takes the name from the town of Mannville, Alberta , and was first described in the Northwest Mannville 1 well by A.W. Nauss in 1945. The Mannville Group consists of interbedded continental sand and shale in the base, followed by a calcareous sandstone member, marine shale, glauconitic sandstone and salt and pepper sandstone. An additional non-marine sequence is present in north-eastern Alberta . Bitumen
14-695: A thickness of 145 feet (40 m) in its type locality. It occurs in the sub-surface in central Alberta , extending east-west from Edmonton to Lloydminster and north-south from the Deep Basin to the United States border. It is present in the sub-surface in west-central and southern Saskatchewan . The Mannville Group is discomformably overlain by the Joli Fou Formation shale of the Colorado Group . It rests unconformably on
21-576: Is a village in central Alberta , Canada. It is located at the intersection of the Yellowhead Highway and Highway 881, approximately 22 kilometres (14 mi) west of Vermilion and 170 kilometres (110 mi) east of Edmonton . Its primary industry is agriculture. The settlement was named for Sir Donald Mann , vice-president of the Canadian Northern Railway . The Mannville Group , an oil and gas bearing unit of
28-860: Is produced from the McMurray Formation at the Athabasca Oil Sands . Heavy Oil is produced from the Wabiskaw Member of the Clearwater Formation in the Wabasca oil field , and from multiple formations in the Lloydminster and Provost areas in eastern Alberta and western Saskatchewan . Natural gas is extracted from the Ostracod and Glauconite beds in southern Alberta , and light oil is extracted from
35-594: The Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin , was named for the village by A.W. Nauss in 1945. In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , the Village of Mannville had a population of 765 living in 339 of its 397 total private dwellings, a change of -7.6% from its 2016 population of 828. With a land area of 1.64 km (0.63 sq mi), it had a population density of 466.5/km (1,208.1/sq mi) in 2021. In
42-666: The Ellerslie Member in central and southern Alberta. Multiple oil fields and gas fields tap into the Manville Group. Total gas reserves amount to 316 799 × 10 m in the Lower Mannville and 644 774 × 10 m in the Upper Mannville. Recoverable oil reserves amount to 105.64 × 10 m in the Lower Mannville and 199.20 × 10 m in the Upper Mannville. The Mannville Group reaches
49-958: The older Paleozoic carbonates. It is correlated with the lower Blairmore Group in the Canadian Rockies foothills and to the Bullhead Group and the Spirit River Formation of the Fort St. John Group in north-western Alberta. It is also equivalent to the Cantuar Formation in Saskatchewan and the Swan River Formation in Manitoba . The Mannville Group includes the following sub-units: Mannville, Alberta Mannville
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