Trout River is a river in the Northwest Territories of

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. It is a major tributary of the Mackenzie River. The river gives the name to the

Trout River Formation The Trout River Formation is a Stratigraphy, stratigraphical unit of Late Devonian Geochronology, age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. It takes the name from the Trout River (Northwest Territories), Trout River, and was first described ...

, a stratigraphical unit of the

Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin The Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin (WCSB) underlies of Western Canada including southwestern Manitoba, southern Saskatchewan, Alberta, northeastern British Columbia and the southwest corner of the Northwest Territories. This vast sedimentary ...

Course

The Trout River originates in Sambaa K'e at an elevation of . It flows north and then east, through occasional rapids, receiving the waters from several creeks and lakes. The course becomes

meander A meander is one of a series of regular sinuous curves in the channel of a river or other watercourse. It is produced as a watercourse erodes the sediments of an outer, concave bank ( cut bank) and deposits sediments on an inner, convex ba ...

ed before it is crossed by the

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, where the river turns sharply west, then north. It continues through a deep canyon, then empties into the Mackenzie River, downstream from

Jean Marie River Jean Marie River (Slavey language: ''Tthek'éhdélį'' or ''Tthek'edeli'' "water flowing over clay") is a "Designated Authority" in the Dehcho Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada. The community is located on the Jean Marie River where ...

and upstream from Mills Lake, at an elevation of .

Course

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