The most prevalent rocks in Manitoba are Precambrian in age. These rocks are almost all igneous and metamorphic. These are divided into the Superior Province and the Churchill Province. [1]
In central Manitoba lies the Flin Flon greenstone belt, which is one of the largest Paleoproterozoic volcanic-hosted massive sulphide districts in the world, containing 27 copper-zinc-(gold) deposits from which more than 183 million tonnes of sulphide have been mined. [2]
There are two distinct sedimentary basins in Manitoba Located in the southwest is the Williston/Elkport basin and to the North East is the Churchill Basin.
Southwestern Manitoba is located in the Williston Basin. This Basin is best known for the Bakken formation. There are a number of oil producing formations found with in this area. Both conventional and tight oil wells. [3]
The Ashville Formation is a geological formation in Saskatchewan and Manitoba whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation. [4]
It is geochronologically equivalent to the Lower Colorado Group and the Viking Formation in central Alberta.
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