The Prelate area comprises 6,000 square miles in southwestern Saskatchewan adjoining the Alberta boundary north of latitude 50•. Glacial drift which is as thick as 450 feet in two north trending preglacial valleys, overlies shale, sandstone, sands, conglomerates and gravel formations ranging from Late Cretaceous to Early Pleistocene age. Borings and exposures along South Saskatchewan River reveal five till sheets separated by stratified deposits: three till sheets correlate with end moraines within the area. Deposits of several glacial lakes cover much of the area and overlap each other; these lakes discharged successively through spillways to the south, east and north. Dune sand and loess were laid down mainly in post-glacial time. [...]
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.117583 |
| Date | January 1965 |
| Creators | David, Peter Pascal. |
| Contributors | Elson, J. (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 | Doctor of Philosophy. (Department of Geological 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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