Open File Report 5536 Paskapoo Groundwater Study Part V: Detailed outcrop measured sections of the Scollard, Porcupine Hills and Paskapoo formations in the Calgary region, Alberta About the CD-ROM ---------------- This CD contains Open File Report 5536 in pdf V7.0.5 format. The pdf can be viewed using Adobe Acrobat V7.0.5 (included on CD). The Paskapoo Formation, of Paleocene age, is an important, but poorly understood groundwater aquifer in western Alberta, and is now becoming recognized as a shallow-gas reservoir. Because the Paleocene rocks represent the bedrock at surface over their area of occurrence, and have not previously been a major hydrocarbon target, there has been little study of outcrop or subsurface data. This report briefly summarizes outcrop fieldwork, primarily detailed measured sections, in the Bow River corridor, in an east-west transect, both within and west of the city of Calgary, where Porcupine Hills-Paskapoo rocks are intermittently exposed. The material is presented as 15 standard measured sections, with text descriptions of units, and measured paleocurrent data, which approximate a continuous succession of the strata represented in this region. Two main facies are present: a) thick, multistoried fluvial channel sandstones with erosive bases, and b) pedogenically altered siltstones with thin sandstone interbeds and calcrete horizons. This report complements two other Open Files on outcrop sections of the Paskapoo Formation: one on the Red Deer River (GSC OF 5535), and the other on drillcore sections of Paskapoo rocks in central Alberta (GSC OF 5537). Recommended citation -------------------- Hamblin, A.P. 2007: Paskapoo Groundwater Study Part V: Detailed outcrop measured sections of the Scollard, Porcupine Hills and Paskapoo formations in the Calgary region, Alberta; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 5536, 1 CD-ROM. If you are reading this with a Mac or Unix operating system the autostart will not work. The user will find of5536.pdf in the /pdf folder on this CD. Open files are products that have not gone through the GSC formal publication process. Contents: -------------------- abstract.txt (abstract of this publication) adobe.txt (Adobe Acrobat Reader attribution statement) citation.txt (how to refer to this CD) licence.txt (legal information) metadata.txt (standard metadata describing this CD publication) \apps\AdbeRdr705_enu_full.exe (Adobe Acrobat Reader) \pdf\of5536.pdf (full text of publication in PDFV7.0.5 Format) Contact Information ------------------- Questions, suggestions, and comments regarding this CD-ROM should be addressed to: A.P. Hamblin phone: (403) 292-7020 e-mail: THamblin@nrcan-rncan.gc.ca fax: (403) 292-4961 Mailing address: Geological Survey of Canada Calgary 3303 - 33 Street NW, Calgary, Alberta T2L 2A7