Schooler Creek Group
{{Short description|Stratigraphic Group in Western Canada}}
{{Infobox Rockunit
| name = Schooler Creek Group
| type = Geological group
| age = Ladinian to Norian {{Fossil range|235|203| }}
| period = Norian
| prilithology = Limestone, dolomite
| otherlithology = Siltstone, shale, evaporite minerals
| namedby = F.H. McLearn, 1921
| region = {{flag|British Columbia}}
| country = {{flag|Canada}}
| coordinates = {{coord|56.2769|N|120.9836|W|name=Pacific Fort St. John No. 16|display=inline,title}}
| subunits = Bocock Formation, Pardonet Formation, Baldonnel Formation, Ludington Formation, Charlie Lake Formation, Halfway Formation
| underlies = Fernie, Bullhead, Fort St. John Group
| overlies = Toad Formation, Doig Formation
| thickness = up to {{convert|730|ft|m|-1}}{{Cite web|url=http://cgkn1.cgkn.net/weblex/weblex_litho_detail_e.pl?00053:013387 |title=Schooler Creek Group|author=Lexicon of Canadian Geologic Units |accessdate=2009-02-10}}
}}
The Schooler Creek Group is a stratigraphic unit of Middle to Late Triassic (Ladinian to Norian) age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. It is present in northeastern British Columbia. It was named for Schooler Creek, a left tributary of Williston Lake, and was first described in two oil wells (Pacific Fort St. John No. 16 and Southern Production No. B-14-1) northwest of Fort St. John, by F.H. McLearn in 1921.McLearn, F.H., 1921. Mesozoic of upper Peace River, British Columbia Geological Survey of Canada, Summary Report 1920, Part B, p. 1-6. Exposures along Williston Lake serve as a type locality in outcrop.
Lithology
Distribution
The Schooler Creek Group outcrops in the foothills of the northern Canadian Rockies in northeastern British Columbia, where it reaches its maximum thickness of {{convert|730|ft|m|-1}}. In the subsurface, it extends throughout the plains of the Peace River Country. The Pardonet Formation has its type locality at Pardonet Hill, on the south shore of the Williston Lake at {{coord|56.05328|-123.01889|name=Pardonel Hill}}.
Relationship to other units
The Schooler Creek Group is unconformably overlain by the Fernie shale, or by the Bullhead or Fort St. John Group. It conformably overlies the Toad Formation or the Doig Formation.
=Subdivisions=
The Schooler Creek Group has the following sub-divisions from top to base:
References
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Category:Geologic groups of British Columbia