Wee plateaus, marked by the cliff fronts and the cones and piles of huge conglomerate blocks that occur at intervals fram Table to Steamboat Mountains. Glacial moraines are interlocked with these boulder piles, showing that glacial ice has played an important’role in the removal of surplus debris and in arranging what remains. On the top of Table Mountain, near the eastern face, one huge cubic block of conglomerate appears to rest on one corner, forming» a landmark visible from the Highwoy near Mill Creek. The surface of Table Mountain conforms to the surface of the conglomerate, which dips about 6 degrees north by’ east. The conglomerate is. cut into huge joint blocks, which, near the western precipice, have opened widely, leaving trenches 8 to 10 fect deep and.10 to 15 feet wide. Other flat-topped hills to the north and northeast appear to be capped by the same conglomerate. The complete thickness of the for- mation is not represented at any locality visited, ond must have been considerably more than 600 feet. No direct evidence of the age of this formation has’ been found. It is clearly continental or deltaic, but no plant or other fossils were found. The coal bed just beneath its base records swampy continental conditions. By ccmparison with. the.sections in Peace River Valley, the formation may be correlated with the Dunvegan sandstone though it is much coarser and more massive than any Dunvegan known to the writer. It is, however. identical with the Upper Cretaceous, Fort Nelson formation thet outerops along Fort Nelson, and: Liard Rivers to . the north”. oe 1 Kindle, ae Geol. Surv.; Canada, Paper 44-16 (1944). Tertiary At Coal River, mile 250, Alaska Highway, large masses of brown lignite and slabs of lignitized wood lie scattered over the river bars. These were reported by McConnell, who failed to reach their source in the time at his disposal. The outcrop occurs north of the big bend in Coal River, and about 6 miles in a direct line from the Highway. The. distance is much longer by the river. The coal seam forms a rapid across the river, which is over 200 yards wide, and outcrops for about 300 yards along the river bank. In the west bank, 15 feet of lignite is well exposed, dipping 6 degrees to the northwest. The lignite weathers brown; sone of it is very friable and some is tough and woody, containing large, well-preserved sections of logs. Ashy grey overclay shows in one place, but basal beds were not seen. In general the coal is overlain by a thick mass of out- wash gravel. ig Upstream, where the gravel cover has been removed by the river, the coal is burning over an area 150 yards along the stream and for 50 yards in width. Smoke and fumes are issuing freely from the surface, and trees and shrubs show all stages of death and destruction. Nodules of clay have been vitrified, and slumped overburden indicates subsurface collapse. "Coal" is said to extend upstream as far as the "falls", but what distance that is can only be estimated. Hills could be seen approaching the river, some 2 miles upstream from the coal outcrops.