Most chert-pebble conglomerate units within the Late Jurassic to mid-Cretaceous Tantalus Formation were deposited in shallow, deep and meandering gravel-bed rivers. However, the presence of largescale angle of repose foresets of large- to small-pebble conglomerate, with distinct down-slope termination in laminated mudrocks, indicates that at least some >5 m foresets were formed by episodic flood-controlled progradation of a small river-dominated lobate delta. Architectural analysis of exposures at the Whitehorse Coal deposit, 26 km south-southwest of Whitehorse, indicates periodic rapid progradation into a small lake that was at least 6 m deep. Thinning and downlap of some foreset units indicate shifting location of topset distributary channels. Down-slope transition of gravel foresets into thin sub-horizontal beds of massive and graded sandstone and pebbly sandstone suggests that the foresets were inertia-dominated. Deformation of bottomset beds is directly related to foreset progradation over under-compacted lacustrine clays.
