Message from ... the Governor General, with Reports on Geological Survey Presented to the Legislative AssemblyGeological Survey of Canada, 1879 Contents of each report may be found in "List of publications of the Geological survey of Canada. 1906." |
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angle anticlinal appear argillites bank beds belt Boston Bar breccia Cache Creek calcareous cañon Cape Jones character chloritic clay coal coarse Coast Range Coldwater conglomerates crystalline deposits described diorite distance dolomite east eastward elevation elytron exposures feet felsites felspar felspathic fine-grained Forks fossils fragments Fraser Geological glaciation glaciers gneiss gneissic gold granite greenish grey hills hornblende Hudson's Bay Huronian igneous Island Kamloops Lake Laurentian layers lignite limestone localities lower mass massive material micaceous mountains mouth Nastapoka nearly Nelson River Nicola Nicola River occur Okanagan Lake places plateau Portage portion probably quartz quartzites region Report resemble Richmond Gulf rocks sandstones schistose schists seen shales shore Shuswap Lake side Similkameen slates slaty slopes South Thompson species strata stream striæ strike summit surface Survey synclinal terraces Tertiary thickness trail upper valley veins vicinity volcanic waggon road westward Whale River
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Page 1 - An Act to make better provision respecting the Geological and Natural History Survey of Canada, and for the maintenance of the Museum in connection therewith...
Page 15 - In many of the areas, especially the western ones, the base of this is well defined by unconformity, but in the Eastern Townships and in some parts of Nova Scotia it has yet to be determined. The limit between it and Lower Silurian is debatable ground.
Page 14 - I. Laurentian : To be confined to all those clearly lower unconformable granitoid or syenitic gneisses in which we never find interstratified bands of calcareous, argillaceous, arenaceous and conglomeratic rocks. II. Huronian : To include — 1. The typical or original Huronian of Lake Superior and the conformably — or unconformably, as the case may be — overlying upper copper-bearing rocks. 2. The Hastings, Templeton, Buckingham, Grenville and Rawdon crystalline limestone series.
Page 89 - In certain beds of the limestones of Marble Canon the Loftusia Mode of occurs almost to the exclusion of other forms, characterizing the rock, and having been the agents in its production just as Fusulince occur in the best examples of Fusulina limestone, or GlobigerineK in the Atlantic ooze.
Page 28 - Hunt pyroxenites.J vary considerably in their characters. Sometimes they consist almost exclusively of pyroxene, though more commonly quartz and orthoclase are present. Mica, too, is of frequent occurrence, while minute garnets may occasionally be seen. The frequent presence of disseminated grains of apatite is also an important fact. When pyroxene is the principal mineral the rock commonly shows little or no trace of bedding, but is often a good deal jointed.
Page 15 - ... etc.) appearing as stratified masses and passing into schistose rocks is no proof of their not being of eruptive or volcanic origin: their present metamorphic or altered character is, as the name implies, a secondary phase of their existence, and is unconnected with their origin or original formation at the surface, but is due partly to original differences of composition and partly to the varying physical accidents to which they have since their formation been subjected. SELWYN...
Page 15 - River appear to have come together in this stretch for the first time since leaving Great Playgreen Lake. The width now averages about a quarter of a mile, or rather more, with a depth of from forty to fifty feet. The current runs at the rate of about three miles an hour in the middle, except at two very narrow parts, where it is considerably greater. Owing apparently to the considerable depth of water across the greater part of the bed of the stream, strong eddies are found on both sides, which...
Page 134 - Observations in the northern part of the Strait of Georgia, and the fjords opening into it — where the sources of the great glacier must have been, show ice-action to a height of over 3000 feet on the mountain sides. The fjords north of the Strait of Georgia show similar traces. Terraces along the coast of the mainland are very seldom seen, and have never been observed at great elevations. 4. In the interior plateau of British Columbia there is a system of glaciation from north to south, of which...
Page 14 - REPORT ON THE CLAY DEPOSITS of Woodbridge, South Amboy and other places in New Jersey, together with their uses for firebrick, pottery, &c.
Page 20 - ... the river. This band is traceable to Richmond Gulf, at the entrance of which I found bunches of galena in it, which would weigh upwards of a hundred pounds. Specimens from ,the mine' on the north side of Little Whale River which I brought to Montreal in 1875 were found by Dr.