Ellerslie Member

Ellerslie Member Stratigraphic range: Early Cretaceous PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
Type	Geological formation
Unit of	Mannville Group
Underlies	Ostracod Beds
Overlies	Rundle Group
Thickness	up to 70 metres (230 ft)^[1]
Lithology
Primary	Sandstone
Other	Shale, Siltstone
Location
Coordinates	53°23′46″N 113°35′54″W / 53.396°N 113.5982°W / 53.396; -113.5982
Region	Alberta, Saskatchewan
Country	Canada
Type section
Named for	Ellerslie, Edmonton
Named by	Hunt, 1950

The Ellerslie Member is a stratigraphical unit of Early Cretaceous age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.

It takes the name from Ellerslie, a community in southern Edmonton, and was first described in Imperial Oil's Whitemud No. 3 well by C. Warren Hunt in 1950.^[2]

Lithology

The Ellerslie Member is composed of fine grained sand with sandy shale and shaley sand lenses in the upper part, and medium grained quartz sand, siltstone and coal in the lower part. ^[1]

Hydrocarbon production

Oil is produced from the Ellerslie Member in southern Alberta and central Alberta.

Distribution

The Ellerslie Member Lateral reaches a thickness of 40 m (130 ft) (Upper Ellerslie) and 30 m (100 ft) (Lower Ellerslie). It occurs in the sub-surface in central and southern Alberta and south-western Saskatchewan.

Relationship to other units

The Ellerslie Member represents the lower part of the Mannville Group in southern and central Alberta. It is conformably overlain by the Ostracod Beds of the Manville Group and rests unconformably on Paleozoic strata such as the Banff Formation or Pekisko Formation, often separated by a Detrital Zone.^[1]

It is correlated to the McMurray Formation in the Athabasca Oil Sands of north-eastern Alberta and the Dina Member in east-central Alberta and west-central Saskatchewan.

References

1 2 3 Lexicon of Canadian Geologic Units. "Ellerslie Member". Retrieved 2009-10-08.
↑ Hunt, C. Warren, 1950. Preliminary report on Whitemud oil field, Alberta, Canada; The American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), AAPG Bulletin, vol. 34, no. 9 (September), pp. 1795-1801.

Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin

Hydrocarbon history	Oil sands and heavy oil Frontier exploration and development Natural gas liquids Natural gas

Depositional regions	Southern Alberta Central Alberta Northwestern Alberta Plains South-central Canadian Rockies foothills North-east Plains North-central foothills Liard River Fort Nelson Northern Rocky Mountains Fort St. John Saskatchewan Western Manitoba

Fort Nelson area	Wapiti GRP Kotaneelee FM Dunvegan FM Ft. St. John GRP Sully FM SikanniFM Buckinghorse FM Scatter FM Belloy FM Rundle GRP Debolt FM Shunda FM Pekisko FM Banff FM Exshaw FM Kotcho FM Tetcho FM Trout River FM Kakisa FM Redknife FM Jean Marie MBR Fort Simpson FM Horn River FM Muskwa FM Waterways FM Slave Point FM Watt Mountain FM Muskeg FM Sulphur Point FM Presqu'ile FM Pine Point FM Keg River FM Chinchaga FM Canadian Shield

Northwest plains	Paskapoo FM Scollard FM Wapiti GRP Smoky GRP Puskwaskau FM Badheart FM Muskiki FM Cardium FM Kaskapau FM Pouce Coupe MBR Doe Creek MBR Dunvegan FM Fort St. John GRP Shaftesbury FM Peace River FM Spirit River FM Bullhead GRP Bluesky FM Gething FM Cadomin FM Nikanassin FM Fernie GRP Rock Creek MBR Poker Chip Shale Nordegg MBR Schooler Creek GRP Baldonnel FM Charlie Lake FM Halfway FM Doig FM Montney FM Belloy FM Stoddart GRP Taylor Flat FM Kiskatinaw FM Golata FM Rundle GRP Debolt FM Shunda FM Pekisko FM Banff FM Exshaw FM Wabamun FM Trout River FM Kakisa FM Redknife FM Jean Marie MBR Woodbend GRP Irteton FM Fort Simpson FM Leduc FM Duvernay FM Cooking Lake FM Beaverhill Lake GRP Waterways FM Swan Hills FM Fort Vermilion FM Elk Point GRP Watt Mountain FM Gillwood MBR Presqu’ile FM Sulphur Point FM Pine Point FM Muskeg FM Zama MBR Black Shale Keg River FM Rainbow MBR Chinchaga FM Cold Lake FM Ernestina FM Basal Red Beds Granite Wash Canadian Shield

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