Gething Formation is a stratigraphic unit of Lower Cretaceous (Aptian) age in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin.

It is present in northeastern British Columbia and western Alberta, and includes economically important coal deposits.

McLearn in 1923[2] in the Peace River Canyon, an area that was partly inundated in 1968 by the Williston Lake after the construction of the W. A. C. Bennett Dam.

The formation consists of alternating units of sandstone and carbonaceous shale or mudstone with some coal seams and conglomerate beds.

The sandstones are fine- to coarse-grained, brown weathering, and typically platy to thin bedded, although some are massive.