Geology of the Corner Brook area, Newfoundland : with emphasis on the carbonate deposits
Geology of the Corner Brook Area, Newfoundland, With Emphasis on the Carbonate Deposits Abstract -- Introduction. Location and accessibility -- Purpose, duration and method of examination -- Acknowledgements -- Geographical features and geomorphology. Relief -- Drainage -- Vegetation -- Relationship...
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Memorial University of Newfoundland
1963
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| Online Access: | http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/cns2/id/177433 |
| Summary: | Geology of the Corner Brook Area, Newfoundland, With Emphasis on the Carbonate Deposits Abstract -- Introduction. Location and accessibility -- Purpose, duration and method of examination -- Acknowledgements -- Geographical features and geomorphology. Relief -- Drainage -- Vegetation -- Relationship of surface trends and bedrock -- Solution phenomena and underground drainage -- Features resulting from Pleistocene glaciation -- Rock exposures -- Geological setting of the Corner Brook area -- Stratigraphy. Cambrian. Mount Musgrave formation -- Grand Lake Brook group. Boundaries -- Description of outcrops -- Conclusions -- Ordovician. St. George group. Hughes Brook formation -- Corner Brook formation. Quarries section. No.1; Lower member -- No. 2; Quarry 2 member -- No. 3; Inter quarry member -- No. 4; Quarry 1 member -- No. 5; Interbedded marble and dolostone member -- No. 6; Upper member -- Possible extension of quarry 2 member -- Microscopic observations -- Chemical composition -- Table Head group. Microscopic observations -- Chemical study -- Humber Arm group. Area north of the Corner Brook fault. 1. Lower shale member -- 2. Quartzitic conglomerate and sandstone member -- 3. Upper shale member -- Area south of Corner Brook fault. Shales -- Quartz conglomerate -- Limestone -- Calcirudites -- Metamorphism -- Structure. Folds -- Faults. Strike faults -- Transverse faults -- Geological history. History of sedimentation -- History of tectonic movements -- Economic geology. Limestones -- Dolostones -- Slate -- Brick shale -- Quartzite -- Sand and gravel -- Summary and conclusions -- Bibliography Thesis M.Sc. Memorial University of Newfoundland |
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