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Skidegate inlet; on the Yakoun river; at Yakoun lake; on the
Tlell river and Wilson creek, and elsewhere. The surface on
which the Haida sediments were laid down was a very irregular
one, and projections of the older rocks are found in the lower
beds of the formation.

Relation to the Honna Formation. At Lina narrows in
Skidegate inlet, the Haida formation is conformably overlain
by the Honna conglomerate. The upper beds of the Haida
are fine, sandy shales, and at the very top are coarse, calcareous
and concretionary sandstones, grading in a short distance into
coarser, pebbly sandstones that may be considered the basal
beds of the Honna formation. While the actual contact has
not been observed elsewhere, structural evidence makes it seem
probable that the two formations are closely conformable
throughout, though local disconformities may occur.

Relation to the Tertiary Formations. Dykes and sills of the
Etheline formation intrude the eroded and uptilted Haida
formation and flows of the Masset volcanics overlie it.

HONNA FORMATION.

Distribution.

The Honna formation outcrops at Lina narrows in Skide-
gate inlet; it forms the western parts of Lina and Maude islands
and the northern part of South island; and is well exposed in
the vicinity of the mouth of the Dina river on Moresby island.
A broad band of the Honna conglomerate crosses Nose point
and many of the islands in the western part of Skidegate inlet
are of this rock; also it is exposed along the shore from South
point to the east of the mouth of Slatechuck creek. Inland a
ridge of the conglomerate extends due north from Lina narrows
and culminates in the highlands south of Camp Robertson,
the strike of the measures changing from north-south, with a
westerly dip, to nearly east-west. This strike, with a southerly
dip, is maintained as far as Mount Etheline, where the con-
glomerate is overlain by flows of Tertiary volcanics. Structural
relations in the overlying measures make it evident, however,

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