The Trout River Formation is a stratigraphical unit of Late Devonian age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin .
4-548: It takes the name from the Trout River , and was first described on the banks of the river, 35 kilometres (22 mi) upstream from the Mackenzie River , by C.H. Crickmay in 1953. The Trout River Formation is composed bedded limestone (top), silty limestone and shale (middle), silty limestone and calcareous siltstone (base). Brachiopod and coral paleo-fauna can be found in outcrops. The Trout River Formation reaches
8-697: A maximum thickness of 91 metres (300 ft). It occurs in the District of Mackenzie in outcrop and dips south into the Fort Nelson area in north-eastern British Columbia . The Trout River Formation is conformably overlain by the Tetcho Formation and disconformably overlays the Kakisa Formation . In its western extent, it overlies and grades into the Fort Simpson Formation . It is equivalent to
12-832: The Sassenach Formation in the central Alberta Rockies , with the Graminia Formation in central Alberta , the Crowfoot Formation in southern Alberta , the Torquay Formation in Saskatchewan and Lyleton Formation in Manitoba . Trout River (Northwest Territories) Trout River is a river in the Northwest Territories of Canada . It is a major tributary of the Mackenzie River . The river gives
16-706: The name to the Trout River Formation , a stratigraphical unit of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin . The Trout River originates in Sambaa K'e at an elevation of 490 metres (1,610 ft). It flows north and then east, through occasional rapids , receiving the waters from several creeks and lakes. The course becomes meandered before it is crossed by the Mackenzie Highway , where the river turns sharply west, then north. It continues through
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