Canada Department of Mines and Resources, Geological Survey Branch No. 3: Problems of Sudbury Geology, Ontario
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Canada Department of Mines and Resources, Geological Survey Branch No. 3: Problems of Sudbury Geology, OntarioEntry/Object ID
2022.143.01Tags
Mining History, Mining Industry, Sudbury, Ontario, District of Sudbury, Geology, Rocks and MineralsScope and Content
Book, report discussing the problems of Sudbury's geology.Context
The report was published by the Canada Department of Mines and Resources, the Mines and Geology Branch and it discusses Sudbury's geology. The report is broken down into chapters, they are as follows: Chapter 1: - Introduction - General Statement - Previous Work - Results of this investigation Chapter 2: - Table of Formations - Conistion Group: relations to the Bruce series, direction of the fault movement, age of the fault, relation of Killarney granite to the fault, later movements connected with the intrusion of the Killarney granite, conclusions and inferences - Hill Group - Stobie Group: lower Stobie, upper Stobie, relations of the upper to the lower Stobie, amphibolitization of the upper Stobie group, sudburite, correlation of the Stobie group - The great fault - The "Sudbury Series" - Bruce Series: Copper Cliff rhyolite (relations to the Stobie group), McKim Formation (relations to the Ramsey Lake conglomerate), Ramsey Lake conglomerate (comparison with other conglomerates and origin of Ramsey Lake conglomerate), Mississagi quartzite (infaulted blocks and relations to Killarney granite), Bruce conglomerate, Espanola formation, Serpent quartzite - Whitewater series: Onaping Formation, Onwatin Formation, Chelmsford sandstone Chapter 3: - Intrusive Rocks - Acid Intrusive Rocks: Wanapitei granite, Levack granite, Birch Lake granite, Murray granite, Creighton granite, Killarney granite, Age of the Killarney Murray and Creighton granites, smaller acid intrusions - Basic Intrusive Rocks: Pre-Huronian gabbro, Amphibolites, Nipissing diabase, Porphyritic olivine diabase, Norite, Quartz diabase (pegmatite), trap, Equigranular olivine diabase Chapter 4: - Structure features of Sudbury District: Sudbury breccia, General structure and correlation, Age of faults Chapter 5: - Economic Geology Chapter 6: - BibliographyCollection
Mining History, Sudbury History, District of Sudbury CollectionCataloged By
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