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The Stony Mountain Formation is a stratigraphical unit of Ashgill age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin .

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4-586: It takes the name from the community Stony Mountain, Manitoba , and was first described in the town quarry by D.B. Dowling in 1900. The Stony Mountain Formation is divided in the following sub-units: The Stony Mountain Formation occurs throughout the Williston Basin . It reaches a maximum thickness of 45 metres (150 ft) in the sub-surface at the Canada / United States border, and thins out towards

8-501: A change of 21% from its 2016 population of 1,636. With a land area of 2.67 km (1.03 sq mi), it had a population density of 741.2/km (1,919.7/sq mi) in 2021. The RM owns and operates the Stony Mountain Water and Wastewater Utility serving 678 customers, including one trailer park with 26 trailers, one school, one hotel, 16 businesses and four industrial connections. At the time that this application

12-655: Is in the Rural Municipality of Rockwood and is the location of Stony Mountain Ski Area . The Stony Mountain Institution and Rockwood Institution prisons are in Stony Mountain. It is the birthplace of hockey hall of famer Babe Pratt . In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , Stony Mountain had a population of 1,979 living in 438 of its 455 total private dwellings,

16-775: The east, north and west. In Manitoba , where it is exposed at the surface in the erosion belt, it has a thickness of 30 metres (100 ft). The Stony Mountain Formation is slightly unconformably overlain by the Stonewall Formation and sharply overlays the Red River Formation or the Herald Formation . Stony Mountain, Manitoba Stony Mountain is a small community in Manitoba , Canada approximately 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) north of Winnipeg on Provincial Highway 7 . The town

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