| Rundle Group | |
| Type: | Geological formation |
| Period: | Mississippian |
| Prilithology: | Limestone |
| Otherlithology: | Chert |
| Namedfor: | Mount Rundle |
| Namedby: | R.J.W. Douglas, 1953 |
| Region: | , |
| Country: |  Canada |
| Coordinates: | 51.1302°N -115.4777°W |
| Subunits: | Debolt, Shunda, Pekisko, Mount Head, Livingstone, Turner Valley, Prophet |
| Underlies: | Fernie Formation, Belloy Formation |
| Overlies: | Banff Formation |
| Thickness: | up to 741m (2,431feet)[1] |
The Rundle Group is a stratigraphical unit of Mississippian age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.
It takes the name from Mount Rundle (itself taking the name from Robert Terrill Rundle), and was first described in outcrops at the northern side of the mountain in Banff National Park by R.J.W. Douglas in 1953.[2]
The Rundle Group consists of massive limestone interbedded with dark argillaceous limestone. Chert nodules are observed in the shaley beds, and crinoids and brachiopods are observed in the clean massive beds.[1] Dolimitization is observed in the Elkton Member of the Turner Valley Formation.
The Rundle Group reaches a maximum thickness of 741feet at Tunnel Mountain. It thins out toward east and north and is completely eroded or absent in east central and only the lower part occurs in southern Alberta.[1]
The Rundle Group is disconformably overlain by the Rocky Mountain Formation in the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies and by the Fernie Formation in the foothills and by Cretaceous beds in the prairies. It conformably overlies the Banff Formation.[1]
The Rundle Group can be correlated with the Mission Canyon Formation in southern Saskatchewan, northeastern Montana and North Dakota.
The Rundle Group comprises the Mount Head Formation and Livingstone Formation in the Rocky Mountains; by the Turner Valley Formation, Shunda Formation and Pekisko Formation in the foothills and plains. It is equivalent to the Debolt Formation and Prophet Formation in north-eastern British Columbia and west-northern Alberta.[1] Debolt, Shunda and Pekisko Formations are staked in the Fort Nelson area.
| Lithology | Max. Thickness | Reference | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wileman Member - silty dolomite Baril Member - ooid grainstone, dolomite Salter Member - dolomite, boundstone and wackestone, ooid grainstone, anhydritechert Loomis Member - massive grainstone Marston Member - microcrystalline dolomite, boundstone, breccia, ooid limestone, shale, marlstone Opal Member - grainstone, subordinate marlstone, chert packstone and wackestone, shale, marlstone, breccia Carnarvon Member - wackestone to packstone, shale interbeds | 7.6-1NaN-1 39-1NaN-1 67-1NaN-1 101-1NaN-1 68-1NaN-1 161-1NaN-1 90-1NaN-1 | [3] | ||
| crinoidal limestone, massive limestone, thin argillaceous limestone beds, dolomite | 452-1NaN-1 | [4] | ||
| Lithology | Max. Thickness | Reference | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 110-1NaN-1 | [5] | |||
| 122-1NaN-1 | [6] | |||
| 134-1NaN-1 | [7] | |||
| Lithology | Max. Thickness | Reference | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Debolt - crystalline dolomite, anhydrite, micritic limestone Lower Debolt - cherty bioclastic (crinoidal) limestone, argillaceous in the north | 366-1NaN-1 | [8] | ||
| chert, skeletal to ooid limestone, shale, marlstone, dolomite | 760-1NaN-1 | [9] | ||