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Mannville (other)
Mannville may refer to: * Mannville, Alberta, a town in Alberta, Canada * Mannville Group, a stratigraphical unit in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin See also * Manville (other) {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mannville, Alberta
Mannville is a village in central Alberta, Canada. It is located at the intersection of the Yellowhead Highway and Highway 881, approximately west of Vermilion, Alberta, Vermilion and east of Edmonton, Alberta, Edmonton. Its primary industry is agriculture. History The settlement was named for Sir Donald Mann, vice-president of the Canadian Northern Railway. The Mannville Group, an oil and gas bearing unit of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin, was named for the village by A.W. Nauss in 1945.Nauss, Arthur William, 1945. Cretaceous stratigraphy of Vermilion area, Alberta, Canada; American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), AAPG Bulletin, vol. 29, no. 11 (November), pp. 1605-1629. Demographics In the 2021 Canadian census, 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Village of Mannville had a population of 765 living in 339 of its 397 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 828. With a land area of , it had a population ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mannville Group
The Mannville Group is a stratigraphical unit of Cretaceous age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. It takes the name from the town of Mannville, Alberta, and was first described in the ''Northwest Mannville 1'' well by A.W. Nauss in 1945. Lithology The Mannville Group consists of interbedded continental sand and shale in the base, followed by a calcareous sandstone member, marine shale, glauconitic sandstone and salt and pepper sandstone. An additional non-marine sequence is present in north-eastern Alberta. Hydrocarbon production Bitumen is produced from the McMurray Formation at the Athabasca Oil Sands. Heavy Oil is produced from the Wabiskaw Member of the Clearwater Formation in the Wabasca oil field, and from multiple formations in the Lloydminster and Provost areas in eastern Alberta and western Saskatchewan. Natural gas is extracted from the Ostracod and Glauconite beds in southern Alberta, and light oil is extracted from the Ellerslie Member in central and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
