Duvernay Formation
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| Primary | Shale |
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| Regions | Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin |
| Named by | Andrichuk and Wonfor |
| Year defined | 1954 |
| Other | Calcarenite |
| Named for | Duvernay |
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| ID | 3088275 |
About Duvernay Formation
The Duvernay Formation is a stratigraphical unit of Frasnian age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. It was first described in well Anglo Canadian Beaverhill Lake No. 2 in LSD 11-11-50-17W4M by Imperial Oil staff in 1950. The Formation was named by Andrichuk and Wonfor in 1954 for Duvernay, Alberta.