The Pine Point Formation is a stratigraphical unit of Givetian age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.
It takes the name from Pine Point, a promontory (and former townsite) on the south shore of the Great Slave Lake, west of Fort Resolution, and was first described in outcrop on the shore of the lake between Pine Point and Fort Resolution by A.E.
[2] The Pine Point Formation is composed of bituminous limestone and calcareous shale.
[1] The Pine Point Formation reaches a thickness of up to 115 metres (380 ft) in its type locality on the shore of the Great Slave Lake.
The Pine Point has group status in the southern Northwest Territories, and includes: