A large volume of literature has accumulated dealing with the problem of the limestone conglomerates of the Quebec Group. Most of the field work has been restricted to the vicinity of Quebec City, where the occurrence is not representative of the whole. The present investigation evaluates existing ideas on the origin of the conglomerate on the basis of field evidence collected mainly near Grosses Roches and also at Trois Pistoles. A new approach, the gravitational gliding hypothesis, is proposed. It is postulated that the limestone conglomerate formed as a beach talus below Lower Cambrian to Lower Ordovician limestone cliffs.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.111287 |
| Date | January 1957 |
| Creators | Rejhon, George. |
| Contributors | Stearn, C. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Sciences. (Department of Earth Sciences.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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