Canadian Gardening: Canada Through Your Eyes, 1 by Lilypon

Lilypon wrote:
I'm happy you enjoyed seeing it Joanna. :) A petroleum geologist from Calgary informed me that this Cretaceous aged strata Formation was probably continuous all-the-way to Alberta and the Badlands there, but the glaciers and their melt-waters probably eroded large portions of this stratum away (hence the difference in looks between this location and the stratum in Drumheller).

He went on to say that according to both local Hydrogeologists and Petroleum Geologists, this is the Upper Cretaceous Snakebite Member of the Bear Paw Formation. The Bear Paw Sea extended from the present day Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic Ocean in the Cretaceous. The reason other areas don’t have the “sandcastle” (aka badlands) morphology is because the Snakebite Mbr is covered by the younger (Quaternary) glacial tills of the Battleford Fm.

Ginny I'd be tickled pink to see your pictures! :D

I, like everyone else here have been busy in the yard and at our 2 veggie patches but am hoping it will slow down soon.

A different view of the Beechy formation.