Kananaskis Formation

{{Short description|Geological formation}}

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| name = Kananaskis Formation

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| type = Formation

| age = {{Fossil range|310|297|Late Pennsylvanian}}

| period = Pennsylvanian

| prilithology = Limestone, dolomite

| otherlithology = Chert, quartzite

| namedfor = Kananaskis Range

| namedby = A. McGugan and J.E. Rapson, 1961

| region = Alberta

| country = Canada

| coordinates = {{coord|50|48|24.1|N|115|15|47.9|W|name=Kananaskis Formation|display=inline,title}}

| unitof = Spray Lakes Group

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| underlies = Ishbel Group

| overlies = Tunnel Mountain Formation

| thickness = up to about 55 metres (180 ft)

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The Kananaskis Formation is a geologic formation that is present on the western edge of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin in the southern Canadian Rockies of western Alberta.{{Cite web|url=http://ags.aer.ca/reports/atlas-of-the-western-canada-sedimentary-basin.htm|title=The Geological Atlas of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin (Mossop, G.D. and Shetsen, I., compilers), Chapter 14: Carboniferous Strata of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin|author=Richards, B.C., Barclay, J.E., Bryan, D., Hartling, A., Henderson, C.M., and Hinds, R.C., Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists and Alberta Geological Survey|year=1994|accessdate=2018-07-13|archive-date=2016-07-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160701131122/http://ags.aer.ca/reports/atlas-of-the-western-canada-sedimentary-basin.htm|url-status=dead}} Named after the Kananaskis Range near Banff,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}}. it was deposited during the Late Pennsylvanian sub-period of the Carboniferous period.McGugan A. and Rapson, J.E. 1961. Stratigraphy of the Rocky Mountain Group (Permo-Carboniferous), Banff area, Alberta. Journal of the Alberta Society of Petroleum Geologists, vol. 9, no. 3, p. 73-106. Some of its strata host fossils of marine invertebrates.