AbstractsEarth & Environmental Science

A description of the Kaniapiskau series, Upper Hamilton River, Newfoundland-Labrador : with a petrographic description of the Dyke Lake volcanoes.

by Edmund Wendell. Greig




Institution: McGill University
Department: Department of Geology.
Degree: MS.
Year: 1938
Keywords: Geology.
Record ID: 1512797
Full text PDF: http://digitool.library.mcgill.ca/thesisfile131772.pdf


Abstract

In this thesis, the writer has discussed the geology ot the Dyke Lake Sheet, in the Upper Hamilton river area of Newfoundland-Labrador. A short summary ot the physiography of the area is given. The thesis is a description of the Kaniapiskau series which are found in the map area; with particular reference to the Dyke Lake Volcanics of the above series, and includes a petrographic description of them. A brief summary of the older Grenville type series, which underlies the Kaniapiskau, is also given.