Stratigraphy and structure of a portion of the Shickshock Mountains, Gaspe Peninsula
department or school: Science, Faculty of
department or school: Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Department of
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degree campus: UBCV
creator: Carbonneau, Come
issued: 2012-03-14T20:26:25Z
issued: 1949
related degree: Master of Applied Science - MASc
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: This thesis is the result of information obtained during the field seasons of 1947 and 1948. The writer was an assistant on a geological survey party for the Quebec Bureau of Mines, working in the area. The thesis contains a description of the rock formations and an interpretation of the regional structures. Much of the information had to be obtained from the literature previously published on the district. The geological sketch-map accompanying this paper is drawn at the scale of one mile to the Inch. It is a compilation of the previous geological work In Gaspe completed and modified with the aid of personal notes. In order to give a better picture of the structures, a portion of this map was drawn at a scale of half a mile to the Inch. All the important exposures of rocks situated south of the Shickshook series were visited, but only two weeks were spent on the northern contact of this series with the North Coast sediments. Consequently more attention will be given to the Geology south of the Shickshooks than can be given to the northern part of the area.
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note: L £ 5 * 7 if-i 1 R 7 Car STRATIGRAPHY AMD STRUCTURE OF A PORTION OF THE SHIGKSHOCK MOUNTAINS, GASPB _P gNimULA. A thesis submitted in pa r t i a l f u l -filment of the requirements for the course leading to the degree of Master of Applied Science In Geological Engineering at the University of B r i t i s h Columbia. Come Garbonneau University of B r i t i s h Columbia. A p r i l , 1949 • CONTENTS. Page. Foreword 1 Abstract I l l INTRODUCTION 1 Location of area 2 Means of access 2 Previous work 3 PHYSICAL FEATURES 5 Topography 5 Drainage 8 Geomorphic History 10 Glaciation 10 STRATIGRAPHY 20 Ordovician 20 Sedimentary rocks 20 Shickshock series 24 Silur ian 33 LIthology 33 Paleontology 38 Correlation 44 Devonian 47 Gaspe limestone series 477 Gaspe sandstone series 50 Basic volcanics and basic dykes 53 INTRUSIVE ROCKS 55 Serpentine 55 Granite 60 Diori te 61 STRUCTURE 61 Structure north of the Shickshock ser ies . . . 61 Structure in the Shickshock series 63 St ru^ t re south of the Shickshock se r i e s . . . 64. BIBLIOGRAPHY 66 MAPS. . . . . i n pocket. PIATES (After page 71) Frontispiece: Mount Albert . View from the west. Recently upl i f ted, peneplarted surface and g l ac i a l cirque. Contents (continued) PLATS 1 View looking southeast from a high point in the Shickshock mountains. Foreground: South Mountain. Center: Squaw Gap and Barn-shaped mountains. Background: level-crested surface of the lower plateau. PLATE 11 A view from the Shlckshock to the northern plateau. Background: St. Lawrence r i ve r . PLATE 111 Ground moraine along the Bathurst road in the eastern part of the area. PLATE IV On top of Mount Albert, angular debris or felsenmeer. PLATE V Jointing in the serpentine of South Mountain. PLATE VI Interior of a g l a c i a l cirque on the south flank of Mount Albert . PLATE V l l An exposure of competent, S i lur ian limestone beds dipping north. Seventeen-Mile brook. (South branch) PLATE V l l l North-dipping beds of S i lu r ian doldn-ite exposed alon…
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language: eng
degree discipline: Geological Engineering
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scholar level: Graduate
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/41399