Generalized Label
Descriptions from the Quaternary Geology, Southern Alberta
Map Legend
|
Base
Map Legend ID
|
SoilType
digitizing ID
|
Pleistocene and Holocene, Undivided
|
|
|
Eoliean
Deposits
|
1
|
1
|
Coarse Sediments (Lacustrine)
|
2a
|
2
|
Fine Sediments (Lacustrine)
|
2b
|
3
|
Coarse Sediments (Fuvial)
|
3a
|
4
|
Fine Sediments
(Fluvial)
|
3b
|
5
|
Stream
& Slopewash Erosion Deposits
|
4
|
6
|
Pleistocene
|
|
|
Cryoturbated
Eoliean & Fluvial Deposits
|
5
|
7
|
Ice Contact
Lacustrine Deposits: Coarse
Sediments
|
6a
|
8
|
Ice Contact
Lacustrine Deposits: Fine
Sediments
|
6b
|
9
|
Ice Contact Fluvial
Deposit: Coarse Sediments
|
7a
|
10
|
Ice Contact Fluvial
Deposit: Fine Sediments
|
7b
|
11
|
Ice Contact
Lacustrine & Fluvial Deposits (Undivided),
|
8
|
12
|
Draped Moraine
(Glacial Deposit)
|
9
|
13
|
Stagnation Moraine:
undulating topography
|
10a
|
14
|
Stagnation Moraine:
hummocky topography (moderate development)
|
10b
|
15
|
Stagnation Moraine:
hummocky topography (strong development)
|
10c
|
16
|
Stagnation Moraine:
mixed hummocky and moraine plateau topography
|
10d
|
17
|
Stagnation Moraine:
Ridged End Moraine
|
11
|
18
|
Stagnation Moraine:
Ice Thrust Moraine
|
12
|
19
|
Glacial and Fluvial
Deposits (undivided): draped moraine
|
13a
|
20
|
Glacial and Fluvial
Deposits (undivided): stagnation moraine
|
13b
|
21
|
Cretaceous, Tertiary, and Pleistocene, Undivided
|
|
|
Bedrock and Glacial
Deposit: draped moraine on bedrock
|
14a
|
22
|
Bedrock and Glacial
Deposit: stagnation moraine on bedrock
|
14b
|
23
|
Late Tertiary and Early Pleistocene
|
|
|
Fluvial Deposit
|
15
|
24
|
Cretaceous and Tertiary, Undivided
|
|
|
Bedrock
|
16a
|
25
|
unknown
|
16b
|
26
|
Lakes
|
|
99
|