Gething Formation is a stratigraphical unit of Lower Cretaceous age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.
It was first described in the Peace River Canyon by F.H. McLearn in 1923. The canyon was partly inundated in 1968 by the Williston Lake after the construction of the W. A. C. Bennett Dam. The Formation is named for Gething Creek, a right tributary of the Peace River west of Hudson's Hope and the nearby Gething Mountain.
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