Eldon Formation
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eldon-formation-285-10600450
title:
Eldon Formation
text:
The Eldon Formation is a stratigraphic unit that is present on the western edge of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin in the southern Canadian Rockies of southwestern Alberta and southeastern British Columbia. It is a thick sequence of massive, cliff-forming limestones and dolomites that was named for Eldon Switch on the Canadian Pacific Railway near Castle Mountain in Banff National Park by Charles Doolittle Walcott, who discovered the Burgess Shale fossils. The Eldon Formation was deposited
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description:
Geologic formation in Canada
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldon_Formation
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date modified:
2023-08-04T07:24:25Z
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