Gog Group

{{Short description|Stratigraphic unit in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin}}

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| name = Gog Group

| image = CambrianRusophycus.jpg

| caption = Trace fossils in a slab from the Gog Group.

| type = Group

| age = {{Fossil range|541|509|Early Cambrian)}}

| period = Cambrian

| prilithology = Quartzose sandstone, quartzite, conglomerate

| otherlithology = Siltstone, mudstone, limestone, dolomite

| namedfor =

| namedby = C.F. Deiss, 1940Deiss, C.F. 1940. Lower and Middle Cambrian stratigraphy of southwestern Alberta and southeastern British Columbia. Geological Society of America Bulletin, vol. 57, p. 731-794.

| region = {{flag|Alberta}} {{flag|British Columbia}}

| country = {{flag|Canada}}

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| subunits = see text

| underlies = Mount Whyte Formation, Chancellor Group, Snake Indian Formation

| overlies = Miette Group

| thickness = up to {{convert|2180|m|ft|-1}}

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The Gog Group is a stratigraphic unit in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin. It is present in the eastern and western main ranges of the Canadian Rockies in Alberta and British Columbia.Desjardins, P.R., Buatois, L.A., Pratt, B.E. and Mágano, M.G. 2010. Stratigraphy and sedimentary environments of the Lower Cambrian Gog Group in the southern Rocky Mountains of western Canada. Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology, vol. 58, p. 403-439. It was named by C.F. Deiss in 1940 after Gog Lake near its type locality at Wonder Pass near Mount Assiniboine.Glass, D.J. (editor) 1997. Lexicon of Canadian Stratigraphy, vol. 4, Western Canada including eastern British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and southern Manitoba. Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, Calgary, 1423 p. on CD-ROM. {{ISBN|0-920230-23-7}}.