CANADA

DEPARTMENT
OF
MINES AND TECHNICAL SURVEYS

GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA

Relief from 3000 feet

GENERALIZED STRUCTURE-SECTION ALONG SIKANNI CHIEF RIVER WEST OF ALASKA HIGHWAY

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LEGEND

CRETACEOUS
UPPER CRETACEOUS

DUNVEGAN FORMATION: sandstone, shale,
pebble conglomerate; thin coal seams.
May include younger beds

LOWER CRETACEOUS
FORT ST- JOHN GROUP (5,6)

SIKANNI FORMATION: sandstone, shale,

thin pebble conglomerate

BUCKINGHORSE FORMATION: shale,
sandy shale; bentonite

LOWER CRETACEOUS AND (?) EARLIER
BULLHEAD GROUP

Quartzitic sandstone, sandstone, shale,
sandy shale, pebble conglomerate; coal

MESOZOIC

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JURASSIC

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‘DARK SILTSTONE’, ‘FLAGSTONES’
AND TOAD FORMATION: limestone,

siltstone, sandstone, shale, sandy shale

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CARBONIFEROUS
MISSISSIPPIAN

Limestone, chert

PALAZOZOIC

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Geology by C. O. Hage, 1943.
Cartography by the Geological Mapping Division, 1950.
To accompany Memoir No. 259 by F. H. McLearn and E. D. Kindle.

SCALE, 1 INCH TO 200 MILES

570 NISSEN \ ASSIA SNC

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Published, 1951.

Figure 3. Geological map of Sikanni Chief River area, between Halfway and Buckinghorse Rivers and mainly west of the Alaska Highway, British Columbia.

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Scale: 1 Inch to 3 miles = 190,080
MILES
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