This investigation is essentially a combined mineralogical and geochemical study of the St. Lawrence Lowland Paleozoic shales, with the greater emphasis placed upon mineralogy. The principal objective was to determine the mineralogical composition of these shales and to relate variations in mineralogy to changes in the overall geological picture. With a few minor exceptions, no previous work of this type had ever been undertaken within this region. It has been found that differences in shale mineralogy, as determined by X-ray diffraction procedures, could be directly related to variations in tectonic activity of the Canadian Shield and the land mass of Vermontia, the two principal source areas from which the clastic sediments of the St. Lawrence Lowland were derived.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.115085 |
| Date | January 1963 |
| Creators | Dean, Ronald. S. |
| Contributors | Clark, T. (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 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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