The Mount Reed quadrangle occupies 183 square miles in southern Quebec-Labrador. It is extensively covered by glacial drift and outwash with about 5 percent exposure. The ice sheet margin retreated northwards. The most extensive rock type is the biotite-quartz-oligoclase gneiss with garnetiferous and graphitic varieties. The gneiss consists of maficrich foliations of biotite and miner hornblende and felsicrich foliations of white quartz and oligoclase. [...]
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.112868 |
Date | January 1960 |
Creators | MacKean, B.E. |
Contributors | (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 Science. (Department of Geological Science.) |
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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