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Wardner

Bull River

Fernie

Sparwood

Lundbreck

Hosmer

Elk Prairie

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Elkford

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North White River

Highwood

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UpperKananaskis

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LowerKananaskisLake

ELK RIVER

Elko

Jaffray

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SYMBOLS

Contact

Approximately located contact

Normal fault

Normal fault covered by Quaternary

Thrust fault

Thrust fault approximately located

Structural cross sections:

Flathead (FL) Fernie-Elk Valley (FEV)

BOULDER

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Map 1

GEOLOGICAL MAP OF THE FLATHEADAND FERNIE - ELK VALLEY AREAS

P. A. MONAHAN, P. Geo.MONAHAN PETROLEUM CONSULTING

Quaternary; till, outwash sands and gravels, lacustrine deposits

Areas interpreted to be slide blocks by Jones (1977)

Tertiary; Oligocene Kishenehn Formation in Flathead Valley and Miocene

St. Eugene Formation in Rocky Mountain Trench

Upper Cretaceous; Albert Group (Blackstone, Cardium and Wapiabi

Formations), and Belly River Formation

Lower Cretaceous Blairmore Group; Cadomin, Gladstone, Beaver

Mines, Ma Butte and Crowsnest Formations

Upper Jurassic to Lowermost Cretaceous Kootenay Group; Morrissey, Mist Mountain and Elk Formations; includes Fernie Formation south and

east of Savanna Creek

Triassic Spray River Group and Jurassic Fernie Formation; Fernie

included in unit JK south and east of Savanna Creek

Pennsylvanian and Permian Rocky Mountain Supergroup;

Pennsylvanian Spray Lakes Group (Tyrwhitt, Storelk, Tobermory and

Kananaskis Formations) and Permian Ishbel Group (Johnson Canyon,

Telford, Ross Creek and Ranger Canyon Formations); included in unit M

south and east of Savanna Creek

Mississippian; Exshaw Fm, Banff Fm, and Rundle Group (Livingstone,

Mount Head and Etherington Formations); includes Pennsylvanian Spray

Lakes Group south and east of Savanna Creek

Cambrian and Devonian; Middle Cambrian Elko, Gordon and Windsor

Mountain Formations; Middle Devonian Yahatinda Formation; and Upper

Devonian Fairholme Group (Hollebeke, Borsato, Mt Hawk, and Southesk

(i.e. Leduc and Nisku) Formations) Alexo, Sassenach, and Palliser Formations; includes Lower and Upper Cambrian, Ordovician and Silurian

strata north of Dibble and Gypsum faults in westernmost part of map

Precambrian Purcell Supergroup

Phanerozoic Intrusive Rocks; Permian-Triassic kimberlite pipe

northwest of Elkford (Grieve, 1981, 1982) mid-Cretaceous trachyte and

syenite west and east of Flathead Valley (Price, 1962a, 1965), and

Cretaceous granitic intrusives west of the Bull River and in the Rocky Mountain Trench (Leech, 1958, 1960).

South of this point, and east of Coleman Thrust, Pennsylvanian and

Permian Rocky Mountain Supergroup mapped with Mississippian, and

Jurassic Fernie Formation mapped with Jura-Cretaceous Kootenay Group

LEGEND

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LOCATION OFMAP AREA

Compiled from published maps and reports by Ross et al. (1955), Douglas (1958), Leach

(1960, 1979), Price (1962a, 1965), Gordy (1962), Oswald (1964a), Jones (1969b, 1977),

Johns (1970), Clague (1974), Ollerenshaw (1975, 1981b), Benvenuto and Price (1979),

Gibson (1979), Constenius (1981), Grieve (1981, 1993), Grieve and Price (1985), Höy and

van der Hayden (1988), Mott (1989), Ijewliw (1987), Wheeler and McFeely (1991), Harrison et al. (1992), Price et al. (1992a,b), Norris (1993a,b), McMechan (1998), Dawson

et al. (1998), Brown and Cameron (1999), and Journeay et al. (2000).

BeauvaisLake

Beaver MinesLake

Tie Lake

Crow

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49° 15'

49° 30'

THRUST

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R6W5 R5W5

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115° 30' 115° 00' 114° 30'114° 00'

48° 30'

49° 00'

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BRITISH COLUMBIA

MONTANA USA

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Roosville

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SAVANNACREEK

GAS FIELD

WATERTONGAS FIELD

Parcel 73

Parcel 82

48° 45' 48° 45'

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LoggingLake

BowmanLake

IMPORTANT NOTEGrid and Base Map is NAD83. Wells are named because the B.C. Petroleum Grid is defined according to the NAD27 grid, well names do not appear to

correspond to their locations. The location of well locations with respect to topographic features is correct.

a-64-E

d-25-A

d-5-F

d-15-C

d-61-L

b-9-J

c-72-D

c-67-B

COLEMANGAS FIELD

d-42-I

2 testholes

b-81-D

2 testholes

b-58-H

a-16-B

d-22-A

c-12-A

a-95-L

d-58-L

d-26-L

a-56-E

d-34-E SAGE CREEKd-22-H

b-30-H

d-55-A

b-50-D

b-56-C

d-66-D

MAC

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THRUST

FLATH

EAD

FAULT

T37N

T36N

T35N

T34N

GLACIERNATIONAL

PARK

ELK LAKESPROVINCIAL

PARK

ELK LAKESPROVINCIALRECREATION

AREA

WATERTON LAKESNATIONAL

PARK

9395

95A

953

Cranbrook Crowsnest Highway

Wasa

Fort Steele

Skookumchuck

PremierLake

Oil well

Gaswell

Abandoned gaswell

Location

Test hole

Abandoned

Surface location ofdeviated hole

FAULT

MOYIE

R29W R28W R27W R26W R25W R24W R23W R22W T33N

NorthFork

FlatheadRiver

KISHINENA CREEK

c-80-B

a-72-C

2 testholesa-65-E

c-12-L

b-82-L

b-25-F

c-92-E

a-53-L

c-62-L

d-73-L

CR

EE

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b-81-Ld-82-L

a-85-L

d-93-Ld-96-L

d-16-D

c-54-E

b-63-E

d-96-Elocation and testhole

d-5-L

c-5-L

5

Moyie

b-85-C

Flathead

at least seven additional shallow wells at Sage Creek Dome

four additional shallow wellson Akimina Creek

KintlaLake

Ministry of Energy and MinesEnergy and Minerals Division

Petroleum Lands Branch

BC RITISHOLUMBIA

2000

FL1

FEV1

Western Front Ranges is an informal term used here for the Front

Ranges of the Rocky Mountains west of the Elk River Valley*

d-8-C

River

Wigwam

SYNCLINE

AKAMINA

FEV1a

FEV1a

FEV1 FEV1

FEV2FEV2

FEV3

FEV3

FL1

FL1

b-82-B

SULLIVANCREEK

b-35-D

d-34-D

49° 15'

49° 30'

49° 00'

49° 45'

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IN

TH

RU

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IntrusiveOutline

FE

RN

IE

BA

SIN

b-53-E

a-53-E

d-86-D Lineham Brook

DOMEMACDONALD

HOWELLCREEK

STRUCTURE