Spray Lakes Group
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| name = Spray Lakes Group
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| type = Group
| age = {{Fossil range|323|300|Pennsylvanian}}
| prilithology = dolomite, limestone
| otherlithology = Sandstone, quartzite, chert
| namedfor = Spray Lakes, Alberta
| namedby = A. McGugan and J.E. Rapson, 1963McGugan, A. and Rapson, J.E. 1963. Permian stratigraphy and nomenclature, western Alberta and adjacent regions. Edmonton Geological Society, 5th Annual Field Trip Guidebook, p. 52-64.
| region = Alberta
| country = Canada
| coordinates = {{coord|50|48|24.1|N|115|15|47.9|W|name=Spray Lakes Group|display=inline,title}}
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| subunits = Kananaskis Formation
Tunnel Mountain Formation
| underlies = Ishbel Group
| overlies = Rundle Group
| thickness = More than 600 metres
(2000 ft)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}}.
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The Spray Lakes Group is a stratigraphic unit that is present on the western edge of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin in the southern Canadian Rockies, and it comprises the Pennsylvanian-age strata of that region.{{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}} It was named after the Spray Lakes near Banff, Alberta, and fossils of marine invertebrates are found in some of its strata.McGugan, A. and Rapson, J.E. 1979. Pennsylvanian and Permian biostratigraphy, micropaleontology, petrography and diagenesis, Kananaskis valley, Alberta. Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology, vol. 27, no. 4, p. 405-417.
Stratigraphy and lithology
The Spray Lakes Group comprises the quartzose sandstones of the Tunnel Mountain Formation and its equivalents in the lower part, and the dolomites and limestones of the Kananaskis Formation in the upper part. It is unconformably overlain by the Permian-age strata of the Ishbel Group, and underlain by the Late Mississippian strata of the Rundle Group.