Unit Name: Sicker Group
Unit Type: Lithostratigraphic
Rank: Group
Status: Undefined
Usage: Currently in use
Age Interval: Middle Devonian - Late Devonian (397.5 - 359.2 ma)
Province/Territory: British Columbia
Originator: Originally termed Sicker Series by Clapp and Cooke (1917); Renamed Sicker Group by Fyles, 1955.
Distribution:
The group is extensively exposed in the Alberni map-area.
Lithology:
The Sicker Group consists of a lower metavolcanic rock unit, a middle greywacke, argillite and minor tuff, and an upper limestone belonging to the Buttle Lake Formation (Muller et al., 1974).
References:
Clapp, C.H. and Cooke, H.C., 1917. Sooke and Duncan map-areas, Vancouver Island; Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir 96, 445 p.
Fyles, J.T., 1955. Geology of the Cowichan Lake Area, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, British Columbia Department of Mines, Bulletin 37, 72 p.
Muller, J.E., Northcote, K.E., and Carlisle, D., 1974. Geology and Mineral Deposits of Alert-Cape Scott map-area Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 74-8, 77 p.
Source: LEXICON_BC
Contributor: Holly Girling
Entry Reviewed: No
Name Set: Lithostratigraphic Lexicon
LastChange: 26 Mar 2009