STRUCTURE, DEPTH & ISOPACH Alberta Geological Survey

Prairie Evaporite / Lotsberg salt thickness (publication)

Elk Point Group salt distribution, thickness and dissolution-edge mapping (AGS reports and 3D PGF thickness grids).

Thick, undissolved halite is the target for solution mining and caverns and the seal for CO2 storage; dissolution edges control McMurray karst collapse.

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COMMODITIES IT DISCRIMINATES (6)

What this layer helps you find

Salt (halite) & brine caverns Potash CO2 pore space (carbon storage)Hydrogen (blue, gas-derived)Crude bitumen (oil sands)Magnesium

Prospectivity envelopes citing this dataset (5)

Prairie Evaporite potash edge (east-central Alberta)Potash · Sylvinite / carnallite beds at the western edge of the Saskatchewan potash basinProfile ↗
Lotsberg / Cold Lake salt corridor (Fort Saskatchewan–Lindbergh)Salt (halite) & brine caverns · Thick, clean Lower Devonian halite suited to solution mining and cavern storageProfile ↗
Prairie Evaporite shallow subcrop (Fort McMurray)Salt (halite) & brine caverns · Shallow halite beneath the Athabasca oil sandsProfile ↗
Prairie Evaporite MgCl2 brines and Devonian dolomiteMagnesium · Magnesium from bittern brines (carnallite) or dolomite (Pidgeon / electrolytic)Profile ↗
Industrial Heartland blue-hydrogen clusterHydrogen (blue, gas-derived) · Autothermal / steam-methane reforming with CO2 capture to Basal Cambrian storageProfile ↗

PROVENANCE

Where the figures rest

No Survey Data Registry row is linked yet.

Survey Data Registry · API

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