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Geological Survey Canada 67-1A GEOLOGICAL PAPER 67-1 Part A SURVEY OF CANADA DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, MINES AND RESOURCES REPORT OF ACTIVITIES, Part A: May to October, 1966 Edited by S.E. Jenness Price, $1.00 1967 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA PAPER 67 - 1 Part A REPORT OF ACTIVITIES, Part A: May to October, 1966 Edited by S.E. Jenness DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, MINES AND RESOURCES @ Crown Copyrights reserved Available by mail from the Queen's Printer, Otlawa, from the Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth St., Ollawa and at the following Canadian Govornment bookshops: OTTAWA Only Building, Cornu Mackmzle and Rideau TORONTO 221 Yonge Street MONTREAL £terna-Vie Building, JJ82 St. Catbrlne St. Wesl WTNNIPEO Mall Center Bldg., 499 Portage Avenue VANCOUVER 657 Granville Street or through your bookseller A deposit copy of this publication is also available for reference in public libraries across Canada Price $1.00 Cat. No. M44-67-1/ A Price subject to change without notice ROGER DUHAMEL, f.R.S.C. Queen's Printer and Controller of Stationery Ottawa, Canada 1967 - iii - CONTENTS Page INTRODUCTION .......................................... DISTRICT OF FRANKLIN 1. R. L. CHRISTIE: Operation Grant Land ( 1966). norther n Ellesmere Island. .. .. ... .. 2 2. P.R. DAWES: Lower Palaeozoic rocks, western part of the North Greenland Fold Belt. 4 3. THOMAS FRISCH: Igneous and metamorphic rocks, northern Ellesmere Island. .. ... .. 7 4. J.G. FYLES: Winter Harbour moraine, Melville Island....... 8 5. W. W. NASSICHUK: Studies of Permo-Carboniferous and Mesozoic strata on northern Ellesmere Island............. 10 6. B. S . NORFORD: Biostratigraphic studies, northeast Ellesmere Island and adjacent Greenland... 12 7. H.P. TRETTIN: Geology of pre-Mississippian "eugeosynclinal" rocks in selected areas of northern Ellesmere Island....... 13 DISTRICT OF KEEWATIN 8. A. DAVIDSON: Preliminary investigation of the plutonic rocks within the Ennadai -Rankin Inlet greenstone belt...... 19 9. W. W. HEYWOOD: itankin-Ennadai orogenic belt. .. 20 10. W. W. HEYWOOD and S. M. ROSCOE: Pyritic quartz pebble conglomerate in the Hurwitz Group, District of Keewatin. 21 DISTRICTS OF KEEWATIN AND MACKENZIE 11. J.A. DONALDSON: Study of the Dubawnt Group.............. 23 12. J.G. FYLES: Eskers west of Hudson Bay in Districts of Keewatin and Mackenzie. • . • . • . 25 DISTRICT OF MACKENZIE 13. W.R.A. BARAGAR: Volcanic studies; Coppermine River basaltic flows. • . • . • . • . 26 14. H.H. BOSTOCK: Wholdaia Lake (75 A)...................... 29 - iv - CONTENTS (cont.) Page 15. H.H. BOSTOCK: Itchen Lake map-area..................... 29 16. J.A. FRASER: Study of the Epworth Group. .. .. .. .. .... 34 17. J.G. FYLES: Macke nzie delta and Arctic coastal plain 34 18. P.F. HOFFMAN: Stratigraphy, sedimentology, and palaeocurrents in the East Arrn of Great Slave Lake... .. .. 36 19. E.W. REINHARDT: ThubunLakesarea .•.•............... 40 DISTRICT OF MACKENZIE AND YUKON TERRITORY 20. S. L. BLUSSON: Sekwi Mountain, Nahanni and Frances Lake map -area. • . • . • . 44 21. D.K. NORRIS and A. LAROCHELLE: T e ctonic analysis of the Northern Cordillera. .. .. .••. .. .. .. ... •. .. 45 YUKON TERRITORY 22. D.C. FINDLAY: Study of ultramafic rocks, Yukon Territory.. 47 23. H. GABRIELSE: Ope ration Selwyn, 1966.................... 47 24. O. L. HUGHES: Surficial geology studies, Aishihik Lake D'lap -ar: ea • • • • . • • . • . • . • • . 48 25. E.B. OWEN: Engineering geology investigations of dam sites, Yukon Territory. .. .. .. .. •.. .•. .• . ..• .. •. 49 26. V.N. RAMPTON: Pleistocene geology, Snag-Kluane Lake, southwestern Yukon .................... '" .. .. .. .. .. .. 50 BRITISH COLUMBIA 27. J.D. AITKEN, W.H. FRITZ, and H.B. WHITTINGTON: Stratigraphy, palaeontology, and palaeoecology of the Burgess Shale.. .... .. .. .. .• ....•.••. ... .. 52 28. R.B. CAMPBELL: McBride (93 H) map-area................ 53 29. J.A. COATES: Manning Park area (92 H), Cascade Mountains. 56 30. W.H. FRlTZ: Cambrian biostratigraphic studies in the Canadian Cordillera. • . • . • . .• . .• . •• . 58 31. R.J. FULTON: Quaternary geology, Columbia River Valley... 58 - v - CONTENTS (cont.) Page 32. C.A. GIOVANELLA: Structural relationships of the metamorphic rocks along the Rocky Mountain Trench at Canoe River... .. .. .. .. .. .. .•. .. 60 33. G.D. HOBSON: Seismic investigations, southern British Columbia. •. • . • . • . 62 34. W. W. HUTCHISON: Prince Rupert-Skeena map-area. •. •. 63 35. J. A. JELETZKY: Stratigraphy and palaeontology of Lowe r Cretaceous and Upper Jurassic rocks of Taseko Lakes (92 0) and Pemberton (92 J) map-areas ..•.......•. , .••. " .. •. 65 36. J.A. JELETZKY: Biochronology of the lower part of Nanaimo Group (Mid-Upper Cretaceous), eastern Vancouver I s land (92 F, 92 G) ............................•........ 6 9 37. S.F. LEAMING: Surficial geology, Prince George (93 G) map-area •••........••..............•.. " ... .. .. 71 38. G.B. LEECH: Cretaceous strata in the west face of the Rocky Mountains at Windermere ..........•.•.... " ... 72 39. B.E. LOWES: Chilliwack Group, Harrison Lake area........ 74 40. W. J. McMILLAN: Ratchford Creek area. • • . • . 75 41. J. W.H. MONGER: Atlin Horst project...................... 76 42. J. E. MULLER: Pine Pass area. • . • . 77 43. J.E. MULLER: Port McNeill area and Nanaimo Basin, Vancouver Island....................................... 81 44. V.A. PRETO: Grand Forks W 1/2 map-area....... .. .. 84 45. N. W. RUTTER and J.E. MULLER: An extensive Tertiary section in the Parsnip River valley. • . • . • 86 46. N. W. RUTTER: Surficial geology of the Peace River Darn and Reservoir area.. .•. .. ... .. .••.. .. .•. .. .. .. 87 47. J.S. SCOTT: Control of a flowing well at Vernon •.........•. 88 48. J.G. SOUTHER: Cordilleran volcanic study, 1966 .......•.•. 89 49. H. W. TIPPER: Taseko Lakes (920) map-area.............. 92 50. H. W. TIPPER: Hazelton (93 M) map-area. •. .. .. .. •. .. .. 93 - vi - CONTENTS (cont.) Page 51. E. T. TOZER: Triassic biostratigraphic studies, Fort Nelson (94 J) and Trutch (94 G)map-areas, northeastern British Columbia....... ... ...•. .. •.. .. .... .. .. •. 94 52. J.O. WHEELER: Northeast quarter, Rogers Pass (82N W 1/2) map -ar ea •.....•.. •.............•.....•.....•..•..... 95 ALBERTA 53. J. D. AITKEN: Pre -Devonian stratigraphy, southern Rocky Mountains ...•......... • . • . • . 96 54. HELEN R. BELYEA and W. S. MacKENZIE: Organic growth in carbonate tongues. • . • . • . 97 55. H. V. BIELENSTEIN: Structural analysis of the Rundle thrust sheet, southern Rocky Mountains......................... 100 56. D. W. GIBSON: Triassic stratigraphy between the Athabasca and Brazeau Rivers.................................... 101 57. E.J. W. IRISH: Stratigraphic and structural studies of the Upper Cretaceous of the southern Alberta Plains........... 102 58. R. W. MACQUEEN: Mississippian stratigraphy, southern Rocky Mountains and Foothills. • . • . • . • . 102 59. N.C. OLLERENSHAW: Lake Minnewanka East (82 0/6 east half) map-area.. .. .• . .. .. .•• ..... .. ... ..•••••. .•. 104 60. N. C. OLLERENSHAW: Lake Minnewanka West (820/6 west half) map-area......................................... 104 61. A.A. PETRYK: Mississippian foraminifera of southwestern Alberta. .•••... •. .. .. .••.... .. .. ..... .. .•• 105 62. R.A. PRICE: Operation Bow-Athabasca, Alberta and British Columbia....................................... 106 63. N. W. RUTTER: Surficial geology along the Bow River Valley between the Kananaskis River and Cochrane. .••. .. .. ....• 113 64. A. M. STALKER: Quaternary studies in the southwestern Prairies ....•......•.........•..... '" ..•. .. •.•. •. .•••. 113 65. D.A. ST. ONGE: Quaternary geology and geoITlOrphology, Whitecourt (83 J) map-area..... ••. .• ........ ..... ... 115 66. J.A. VONHOF: T e rtiary gravels and sands in Alberta and Saskatchewan. • •• . •. •• . .• • • . • . • • . •. • . •. • •• • 118 - vii - CONTENTS (cont.) SASKATCHEWAN Page 67. A. J. BAER: Observations in Fond-du-Lac area............ 120 68. K.B.S. BURKE: A study of aITlplitude and frequency characteristics of seisITlic waves in surficial deposits of the Canadian Prairies................................ 120 69. A.R. CAMERON: PreliITlinary investigation on the uraniuITl content of Saskatchewan lignites ...........•.....•... , . 121 70. G.D. HOBSON: HaITlITler seisITlic investigations, Good Spirit Lake area •. , •.• • .•.•.•.......•..........•.........• 121 71. R. J. MOTT: Palynological studies in central Saskatchewan ..• 122 72. J.S. SCOTT: Landslide investigations, South Saskatchewan River Reservoir.. .. .. •• .. .. .. .. .. .. .. • . 124 MANITOBA 73. G.D. HOBSON: A seisITlic investigation near Flin Flon...... 125 74. R. W. KLASSEN: Surficial geology and geoITlorphology of the Assiniboine River Valley and its tributaries... .••• . .. 125 75. L. J. KORNIK: Regional ITlagnetic susceptibility survey in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. • . • • . • . • . 126 76. J. E. WYDER and L. S. COLLETT: Testing side -wall saITlples in drill holes cOITlpleted in Pleistocene sediITlents, Winkler area •..••.........•••.....•.......•••....••.. 128 ONTARIO 77. A. BECKER: Radio wave ITlapping of ground conductivity anoITlalie s ... • . • • . • . • . • • . • . • . 130 78. R.W. BOYLE, A.S. DASS, J. LYNCH, W. DYCK, G. MIHAILOV, C. DURHAM, P. J. LAVERGNE, and D. CHURCH: SUITlITlary report of geocheITlical field work, Cobalt area, Ontario................................... 132 79. D.M. CARMICHAEL: Structure and ITletaITlorphisITl, central Hastings County, Ontario............................... 133 80. L. S. COLLETT: AC resistivity equipITlent.. .•. • .
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