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It is recommended that reference to this publication be made in the following form: Barnett, RJ. 1993. Quaternary Geology of the Long Point-Port Burwell Area; Ontario Geological Survey, Open File Report 5873, 212p. ® Queen's Printer for Ontario, 1993 Ontario Geological Survey OPEN FILE REPORT Open File Reports are made available to the public subject to the following conditions: This report is unedited. Discrepancies may occur for which the Ontario Geological Survey does not assume liability. Recommendations and statements of opinions expressed are those of the author or authors and are not to be construed as statements of government policy. This Open File Report is available for viewing at the following locations: Mines Library Level A3, 933 Ramsey Lake Road Sudbury, Ontario P3E 6B5 Mines and Minerals Information Centre (MMIC) Rm. M2-17, Macdonald Block 900 Bay St. Toronto, Ontario M7A 1C3 The office of the Resident Geologist whose district includes the area covered by this report. Copies of this report may be obtained at the user's expense from: OGS On-Demand Publications Level B4, 933 Ramsey Lake Road Sudbury, Ontario P3E 6B5 Tel. (705)670-5691 Collect calls accepted. Handwritten notes and sketches may be made from this report. Check with MMIC, the Mines Library or the.Resident Geologist's office whether there is a copy of this report that may be borrowed. A copy of this report is available for Inter-Library loan. This report is available for viewing at the following Resident Geologists' offices: Southwestern, Box 5463, 659 Exeter Rd., London N6A 4L6 The right to reproduce this report is reserved by the Ontario Ministry of Northern Development and Mines. Permission for other reproductions must be obtained in writing from the Director, Ontario Geological Survey - Geoscience Branch. iii Contents page Abstract xjii INTRODUCTION 1 Purpose 1 Location and Access 1 Present Geological Survey 3 Acknowledgements 4 Previous Work 5 GEOLOGICAL SETTING 8 Bedrock Geology 8 Bedrock Topography 12 Physiography 12 Drainage 15 Drift Thickness 16 QUATERNARY GEOLOGY 18 General Background 18 Stratigraphy Framework 21 GEOMORPHOLOGY '. 24 General 24 Moraines 24 Tillsonburg Moraine 25 Courtland moraine 27 Mabee Moraine 27 Lakeview Moraine 28 Unnamed Moraine 28 Paris Moraine 28 Gait Moraine 28 Lake Plain 29 Abandoned Shorelines 30 Alluvial Terraces 33 Wetlands 34 Sand Dunes 34 STRATIGRAPHY 35 Introduction 35 Catfish Creek Drift 42 Port Stanley Drift 47 Port Stanley Till 47 Sediments of the Lakeview moraine 52 Descriptions of Sediments 52 Interpretation 61 Sediments of the Jacksonburg Delta 63 Facies association 1 64 Facies Association 2 64 Facies Association 3 67 Large scour and fill structures 69 Facies Association 4 72 Discussion 73 v Paleoecology 74 Fossils 74 Wentworth Drift 84 Wentworth Till 84 Sediments of the Gait moraine 87 Sediments of the Simcoe Delta 95 Glaciolacustrine Deposits 97 Older Alluvium 98 Eolian Deposits 102 Bog and Swamp Deposits 102 Modern Alluvium 102 Lake Erie Deposits 104 GLACIAL HISTORY 104 APPLIED QUATERNARY GEOLOGY Ill Agricultural Soils Ill Economic Geology 112 Sand and Gravel 112 Clay 114 Iron 114 Environmental and Engineering Geology 114 General 114 Shoreline Erosion 115 REFERENCES : 122 APPENDIX A. DESCRIPTIONS OF SELECTED SECTIONS 133 APPENDIX B. REVERSE CIRCULATION BOREHOLE LOGS 134 APPENDIX C. PROPERTIES OF SAMPLE 139 CI : Colour, Grainsize, Carbonate Content, Heavy Minerals 139 C2 : Pebble Lithologies 139 C3 : Heavy Mineral Assemblages 139 APPENDIX D. GEOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF SAMPLES 140 APPENDIX E. GEOTECHNICAL PROPERTIES OF SAMPLES 141 APPENDIX F. STATISTICAL PARAMETERS OF GRAINSIZE 142 vii List of Figures page Figure 1. Location map of study area 2 Figure 2. Bedrock geology of the study area 10 Figure 3. Bedrock topography of the study area and adjacent Tillsonburg and Simcoe map area 13 Figure 4. Drift thickness of the study area and adjacent Tillsonburg and Simcoe map area 17 Figure 5. Morraines of the study area and adjacent Tillsonburg and Simcoe map area 26 Figure 6. Shoreline features in the study area and adjacent Tillsonburg and Simcoe map area 31 Figure 7. Stratigraphic sections along the Lake Erie shorebluffs in the study area Back Pocket Figure 8. General stratigraphy of the Lake Erie shorebluffs between Port bruce and Port Burwell 36 Figure 9. General Stratigraphy of the lake Erie shorebluffs between Port Burwell and Jacksonburg 38 Figure 10. General stratigraphy of the lake Erie shorebluffs between Jacksonburg and Erie View 39 Figure 11. General stratigraphy of the lake Erie shorebluffs between Turkey Point and Port Ryerse 41 Figure 12. Cumulative weight percent probablility plots of Catfish Creek Till samples 46 Figure 13. Cumulative weight percent probability plots of local" Port Stanley Till samples 49 Figure 14. Cumulative weight percent probability plots of Prot Stanley Till samples 50 Figure 15. Sediments exposed along the Lake Erie bluffs near McConnell's Nursery (Lakeveiw moraine) 51 Figure 16. Cumulative weight percent probablity plots of samples from one rhtymite of facies A McConnels Nursery 53 Figure 17. Cumulative weight percent probability plots of facies C and facies D McConnell's Nursery 58 Figure 18. Cumulative weight percent probability plots of samples taken from one fining upward silt rhythmite 66 Figure 19. Summary of paleocurrent measurements taken from Jacksonburg delta sediments 70 Figure 20. Summary of grainsize variations in sediments of the Jacksonburg delta 71 Figure 21. Paleogeography of southern Ontario about 13 400 years B.P 82 Figure 22. Cumulative weight percent probablitiy plots of samples of wentworth Till from the Gait moraine 85 Figure 23. Variations in texture of Wentworth Till samples along the Paris moraine 86 Figure 24. Cumulative weight percent probability plots illustrating textural changes in Wentworth Till samples from east to west across the study area 88 Figure 25.
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