Titkana Formation

{{short description|Geologic formation in Canada}}

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| name = Titkana Formation

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| type = Formation

| age = Middle Cambrian
~{{Fossil range|509|500}}

| prilithology = Limestone, dolomitic limestone

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| namedfor = Titkana Peak

| namedby = Charles Doolittle WalcottWalcott, C.D. 1913. Cambrian Formations of the Robson Peak District, British Columbia and Alberta, Canada. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, vol. 47, no. 12, p. 327-343.

| region = Canadian Rockies

| country = Canada

| coordinates = {{coord|59|19|20|N|119|03|59|W|name=Titkana Formation|display=inline,title}}

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| underlies = Pika Formation

| overlies = Tatei Formation

| thickness = Up to 520 metres (1700 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 Titkana Formation is a stratigraphic unit of Middle Cambrian age that is present on the western edge of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin in the northern Canadian Rockies of Alberta and British Columbia.{{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 8: Middle Cambrian and Early Ordovician Strata of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin|author=Slind, O.L., Andrews, G.D., Murray, D.L., Norford, B.S., Paterson, D.F., Salas, C.J., and Tawadros, E.E., Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists and Alberta Geological Survey|year=1994|accessdate=2018-07-13}} It was named for Titkana Peak near Mount Robson by Charles Doolittle Walcott in 1913. The Titkana Formation is generally unfossiliferous.