“Granite wash” refers to partly reworked residual material overlying the basement and underlying marine strata. Its distribution is irregular and its age varies from place to place. Recent oil discoveries have made the Granite Wash economically interesting. Representative samples from a cored wall, Gulf Clear Rills 14-10, on the northern flank of the Peace River high, were subjected to detailed petrographic examination. Only the lowest few feet of core, if any, were found to be basement, consisting of tectonized granitoid gneiss. The rock types studied indicate no mineralogical variations in the source rock, only variations in degree of crushing and hence grain size.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.111372 |
| Date | January 1957 |
| Creators | Zwartendyk, Jan. |
| 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 Science. (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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