| Title | Detailed outcrop measured sections of the Eocene White Lake Formation, southern Okanagan Valley, British Columbia |
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| Author | Hamblin, A P |
| Source | Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 6857, 2011, 18 pages, https://doi.org/10.4095/288673 (Open Access) |
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| Year | 2011 |
| Publisher | Natural Resources Canada |
| Document | open file |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | on-line; digital |
| File format | pdf |
| Province | British Columbia |
| NTS | 82E/10; 82E/11; 82E/12; 82E/13; 82E/14; 82E/15; 82L/02; 82L/03; 82L/04; 92H/09; 92H/11; 92H/15; 92H/16; 92I/01; 92I/02 |
| Area | Okanagan Valley; Lake Okanagan |
| Lat/Long WENS | -121.0000 -118.5000 50.2500 49.5000 |
| Subjects | stratigraphy; sedimentology; sedimentary rocks; sandstones; conglomerates; siltstones; mudstones; sedimentary facies; volcanic rocks; breccias; aquifers; groundwater; groundwater regimes; hydrocarbon
potential; mineral potential; coal; White Lake Formation; Okanagan Basin; Cenozoic; Tertiary |
| Illustrations | location maps; stratigraphic columns |
| Program | Aquifer Assessment & support to mapping, Groundwater Geoscience |
| Released | 2011 06 13 |
| Abstract | The sedimentology of the Tertiary White Lake Formation of the Okanagan Valley of southern British Columbia has never been seriously studied, and is currently poorly-understood. For this preliminary
study, three long outcrops were described in detail to provide an initial view of these strata. Aside from minor hydrocarbon and coal exploration in the 20th C, little is known of the resource potential or groundwater potential, and these strata must
be viewed as frontier prospects. However, the occurrences are located in an area of quickly increasing population and water use, near important markets. The currently fault-bounded Okanagan Basin is narrow and elongate, geologically complex and the
potential is poorly constrained. A relatively high regional geothermal gradient, abundant sandstone/conglomerate potential reservoir/aquifer facies and the location near populous markets suggest significant potential. Facies observed in outcrop
include 1) volcanic breccia debris flow conglomerate, 2) high energy braided fluvial conglomerate to pebbly sandstone, 3) fluvial sandstone, 4) pedogenically-altered overbank sandy siltstone, 5) pond/marsh carbonaceous mudstone, and 6) lahar sandflow
deposits. Facies 2 and 3 represent potential hydrocarbon reservoir/groundwater aquifer facies. Further progress in analysis and understanding will require concerted geological and geophysical field work, and several stratigraphic test
wells. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 288673 |
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