Type Locality:

Wickenden's (1951) section 8 (p. 28-30), located on the southeast side of Peace River about 0.5 km (0.3 mi) below a sharp bend in the SW/4 Sec. 28, Twp. 93, Rge. 20W5M, Alberta. In the subsurface type section of the Spirit River Formation in the Imperial Spirit River No. 1 well, in 12-20-78-6-W6M the Notikewin occurs between 817 and 845 m (2,678 and 2,770 ft).

Distribution:

Thickness in type section is 10 m (33 ft), in the Imperial Spirit River No. 1 well it is 28 m (92 ft) it is present in the Peace River area of Alberta and westward to the Fort St. John area of British Columbia.

Lithology:

Grey, yellowish and greenish grey, more or less argillaceous sandstone, fine- to medium-grained, containing interbeds of light to dark grey shale with ironstone concretions. Some glauconitic beds are present. In the southern portions of the Peace River area some nonmarine deposits are interbedded.

Relationship:

The Notikewin Member is abruptly though conformably overlain by the Harmon Member of the Peace River Formation and underlain conformably and somewhat transitionally with the Falher silts and shaly beds. The Notikewin is probably equivalent to the upper part of the Gates Formation of the Hudson Hope area of British Columbia and to the lower sandstone member of the Scatter Formation (Bulwell Member, Stott, 1981) of the Liard River area. It correlates with part of the Grand Rapids Formation of the Athabasca River area of northern Alberta, with the upper Mannville of the plains, and to the upper Luscar (Malcolm Creek Member of McLean, 1980) of the central Alberta Foothills.

History:

The Notikewin is the upper part of the "Basal Member" of the Peace River Formation (Wickenden, 1951). The name was taken from the Notikewin River, 110 km (70 mi) downstream from the town of Peace River, Alberta, and was used for the sandstones outcropping there in company reports much before 1954.

Other Citations:

Alberta Study Group, 1954; Badgley, 1952; McLean, 1980; Singh, 1971; Stott, 1981; Wickenden, 1951.

References:

Badgley, Peter C., 1952. Notes on the subsurface stratigraphy and oil and gas geology of the Lower Cretaceous series in central Alberta (Report and seven figures); Geological Survey of Canada, Paper No. 52-11, 12 p.