Senneterre Map-Area, Abitibi District Province of Quebec, Canada
RASM 1933-B(A) SENNETERRE MAP-AREA, ABITIBI DISTRICT PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, CANADA BUREAU OF MINES Honourable J. E. PERRAULT, Minister of Mines J. L. BOULANGER, Deputy-Minister A. O. DUFRESNE, Director ANNUAL REPORT OF THE QUEBEC BUREAU OF MINES FOR THE CALENDAR YEAR 1933 JOHN A. DRESSER, Directing Geologist PART B Senneterre Map-Area, Abitibi District, by L. V. Bell and A. M. Bell QUEBEC PRINTED BY R. PARADIS PRINTER TO HIS MAJESTY THE KING 1934 PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, CANADA BUREAU OF MINES Honourable J. E. PERRAULT, Minister of Mines J. L. BOULANGER, Deputy-Minister A. O. DUFRESNE, Director ANNUAL REPORT OF THE QUEBEC BUREAU OF MINES FOR THE CALENDAR YEAR 1933 JOHN A. DRESSER, Directing Geologist PART B Senneterre Map-Area, Abitibi District, by L. V. Bell and A. M. Bell QUEBEC PRINTED BY R. PARADIS PRINTER TO HIS MAJESTY THE KING 1934 Part B Senneterre Map-Area 3 SENNETERRE MAP-AREA ABITIBI DISTRICT by L. P. Bell and A. M. Bell TABLE OF CONTENTS Page INTRODUCTION 7 General statement 7 Location and access 8 Method and scope of work 10 Topography and drainage.. 10 Soil, agriculture, timber 12 Population. 13 Previous work and bibliography 13 Acknowledgments 15 GENERAL GEOLOGY 16 Table of formations 16 Keewatin 17 Andesite, basalt, trachyte ... 17 Rhyolite, felsite 18 Tuff, volcanic breccia 19 Diorite, hornblendite 21 Pre-Cobalt (?) intrusives 23 Dioritic intrusives 23 Rhyolite porphyry, dacite porphyry. 24 Granite, granite gneiss, hornblendite, pegmatite, quartz- and feldspar-porphyry 25 Pascalis-Tiblemont intrusive. 28 Quartz diabase (later gabbro).. 32 Recent and Pleistocene 33 4 Quebec Bureau of Mines 1933 TABLE OF CONTENTS Continued Page STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY 35 Folding in Keewatin rocks 35 Fracturing and faulting.
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