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PAJARI, JR.: Deformation of pre-Triassic rocks of Grand Manan, New Brunswick 9 A.S. DYKE: Late Holocene soliflucation rates and radiocarbon soil ages, central Canadian Arctic 17 L.A, DREDGE: The leaching of carbonates in discontinuous permafrost, boreal Manitoba 23 D.A. HODGSON: Surficial geology, Lougheed Island, northwest Arctic Archipelago 27 G.D. JACKSON and L.M. CUMMING: Evaporites and folding in the Neohelikian Society C.,\s Formation, northeastern Bylot Island, Arctic Canada 35 B.W. CHARBONNEAU, K.L. FORD, and G.W. CAMERON: Equilibrium between U and eU (21<1Bi) in surface rocks of Canada 45 GORDON BERNIUS: Boreholes near Ottawa for the development and testing of borehole logging equipmnet - a preliminary report 51 R.E. CRANSTON, D.E. BUCKLEY, R.A. FITZGERALD, and G.V. WINTERS: Geochemical investigation of sediment and pore water samples from the northeast Pacific Ocean, off the coast of California 55 SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL NOTES NOTES SCIENTIFIQUES ET TECHNIQUES N.R. GADD: Anorthosite erratics of probable Laurentian origin in the vicinity of Buffalo, New York 63 N.R. GADD, S.H. RICHARD, and D.R. GRANT: Pre-Last-Glacial organic remains in Ottawa Valley 65 3.A. HUNTER, H.A. MacAULAY, R.M. GAGNE, R.A. BURNS, T.E. HARRI5ON, and 3.P. HAWKINS: Drained lake experiment for investigation of growth of permafrost at Illisarvik, Northwest Territories - Initial geophysical results 67 REBECCA A. JAMIESON: The geology of the Crowdis Mountain volcanics, southern Cape Breton Highlands 77 A.C. ROBERTS: The X-Ray crystallography of tungstite 82 DISCUSSIONS AND COMMUNICATIONS DISCUSSIONS ET COMMUNICATIONS M.3. FRAREY: A provisional standard for correlating the Precambrian rocks of the Canadian Shield 83 J. RIMSAITE: Alteration products of accessory allanite in radioactive granites from the Canadian Shield: Discussion 89 A.L. LITTLEJOHN: Alteration products of accessory allanite in radioactive granites from the Canadian Shield: Reply 93 RUBIDIUM-STRONTIUM AND URANIUM-LEAD 1SOTOPIC AGE STUDIES ETUDES DES NATATIONS ISOTOPIQUES PAR LES METHODES RUBIDIUM-STRONTIUM ET URANIUM-PLOMB W.D. LOVERIDGE: Introduction 97 W.F. FAHRIG and W.D. LOVERIDGE: Rb-Sr study of the Michael Gabbro, Labrador 99 F.C. TAYLOR and W.D. LOVERIDGE: A Rb-Sr study of a New Quebec Archean granodiorite 105 3.A. PERCIVAL, W.D. LOVERIDGE, and R.W. SULLIVAN: U-Pb zircon ages of tonalitic metaconglomerate cobbles and quartz monzonite from the Kapuskasing Structural Zone in the Chapleau area, Ontario 107 W. WEBER and W.D. LOVERIDGE: Geological relationships and Rb-Sr age studies of the Cauchon Lake tonalite and the Pikwitonei enderbite in the northwestern Superior Province, central Manitoba 115 L.P. TREMBLAY, W.D. LOVERIDGE, and R.W. SULLIVAN: U-Pb ages of zircon from the Foot Bay gneiss and the Donaldson Lake gneiss, Beaverlodge area, northern Saskatchewan 123 W.F. FAHRIG and W.D. LOVERIDGE: Rb-Sr isochron age of weathered pre-Athabaska Formation basement gneiss, northern Saskatchewan 127 W.D. LOVERIDGE, G.B. LEECH, R.D. STEVENS, and R.W. SULLIVAN: Zircon and monazite age of a granitic clast in Toby conglomerate (Windemere Supergroup), Canal Flats, British Columbia 131 3.R. HENDERSON and W.D. LOVERIDGE: Age and geological significance of a tonalite pegmatite from east-central Baffin Island 135 SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL REPORTS RAPPORTS SCIENTIFIQUES ET TECHNIQUES AN UPPER CRETACEOUS AMMONITE AND INOCERAMIDS FROM THE HONNA FORMATION, QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS, BRITISH COLUMBIA Project 800026 A.C. Riccardi Institute of Sedimentary and Petroleum Geology Riccardi, A.C., An Upper Cretaceous ammonite and inoceramids from the Honna Formation, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia; in Current Research, Part C, Paper S1-1C, p. 1-8, 1981. Abstract The lower part of the Honna Formation contains the Turonian bivalve species tiyliloides labiatus (Schlotheim) s.l., and Inoceramus sp. cf. L multiformis Pergament, whereas its uppermost beds have yielded the presumably Santonian ammonite Plesiotexanites? sp. indet. Therefore the formation appears to range from the early Turonian to the Santonian. The presence of Mytiloides labiatus s.l. in the upper pact of the underlying Haida Formation suggests the absence of a prolonged hiatus between the two formations and confirms their partial interfingering. Introduction The Honna and Skidegate formations of the Queen Charlotte Islands have yielded only a few generically and specifically indeterminate ammonite and inoceramid fragments to date. Therefore, they were assigned only a general Late Cretaceous (i.e. post-early Turonian) age by Sutherland Brown (1968, p. 98). The post-early Turonian age of the Honna Formation was indicated by the presence of the "Inoceramus" labiatus fauna in the immediately underlying Haida Formation (Sutherland Brown, 1968, p. 92). 13 1 10 ro Dixon Entrance \ 54 54 s O TJfn GRAHAM I ( QUEEN - ~*\ GWlnr} • <£^S wjiifskideqate GSC 100,976^^,*^^ O ^S?" GSCIoc.4'I67r\ 53 CHARLOnE ^-i^.^ "^O^v Cumshc 53 1- s 0 ISLANDS X. 'St!} X^TMORE!>BV I \| Kilometres 0 50 100 52 1 • ' I iS GSC Figure 1.1. GSC localities mentioned in the text. Plate 1.1 Figure 1. Plesiotexanites? sp. indet., GSC 67006, uppermost Honna Formation, GSC loc. 97631. Lateral view. Figure 2. Inoceramus sp. cf. I. multiformis Pergament, GSC 67007, basal beds of Honna Formation, GSC loc.