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1,100 feet up pepper and salt sandstones outcrop on tho north side and
continue upword, being more massive near. the, base of cliff-forming,
massive, Upper Cretaceous conglomerate at 1,400 feet. ‘This;.conglomerate
continues to the top.of Teepee Mountain, at an elevation of about 4,500
feet or 1,800 BON above the wear aoe on the Highway near HES SE zeae

A more complete section occurs on the east flank of Sree
Mountain and the ridge to the south. This is west and northwest of
miles 63 and 64 on the old road location along Gardnor Creek. (At mile
64 old and new locations join.) The section appears to start in shale
in the creek bottom at an elevation of about 2,600 feet above sea-level.
Five hundred feet higher, concretionary shale outcrops and a sandstone
ledge outcrops at 600 feet. In talus below this ledge a fragment of
"Inoceramus" was found that resembles Posidonomya nahwisi var. good-
richensis. Ledges of sandstone outcrop at elevations of 3,450 to 5,500
and at 3,600 feet, with some 60 feet of intervening shale. Those beds
form @ decided cliff. The upper beds carry numerous worm casts. Ledges
of sandstone outcrop at 3,800, 4,000, and 4,300 feet. Firm nodular shale
occurs between the upper beds of sandstone. From about 4,300 fect coarse
sandstone rises as.a cliff 50 feet high to the base of massive, Upper
Cretaceous conglomerate that forms an overhanging cliff on the east face
of Steamboat Mountain. This conglomerate, with interbedded. sandstone and
lenses of sandstone, rises sheer for 500 feet. Massive upper beds over-
hang as much as 50 feet. Cones. of huge cone Laner eee. pEeoke nited up in
front of HO elites neha aS cliff. recession.

Piecing Eanes “the sections, the strata appear £0 comprise at
least 500 feet of soft shale and sandstone overlain by cliff forming
sandstones and interbedded shales carrying Inocerami. The sandstone for-
mation is about 600 feet thick and is everlain by some 250 feet of shale,
which underlies the ieee} beds of VERSE, ORE Paani ae ae
sandstone. : oS APES bu are

‘The lower shales Beene over so large: an area between Fort:
Nelson and the foothills that their thickness is’ probably much le es
cao aoe feet, and may be Enea ds of VHENK a amount.

The prone &s a whole may be porreta ted with the Fort St. John
‘group of Pine River, the lower shales corresponding to the Hasler for-
mation, the middle, fossiliferous sandstones with the Goodrich: forme -
er ete Boe ce ees with the Cruiser ie notes

Upper Gree CECue)

The upper 550 to 600 feet of Steamboat tountaan is ae Ae of
massive sandstone and conglomerate. The basal beds are of hard, cream
weathering sandstone, 50 feet thick, and the upper beds consist of
massive conglomerate. The formation is cliff-forming, as may be seen
in the east face of Steamboat Mountain. The upper massive conglomerate
Aetna He: as Hes as 50 feet ee the eee is over 500. feet high.

Other poheaaanls of this formation. occur’ on fone ane of Teepee
Mountain, cast of Steamboat, and on Table Mountain. Ih each case the
resistant conglomerate beds control the slope of the upland surface.

The conglomerate on Teepee Mountain includes pebbles up to
2 inches in diameter. These consist of black chert, bleached yellow
chert, white sugary quartzite, and opaque white quartz. + One: pebble of
coarse-grained granodiorite was seen. Upward in the Sort On: Bene
stone: odours » : pi

On Table Moun eein pth heavy Saree series is 550 feet
thick. The conglomerate rests on soft clay shale interbedded with soft
sandstone, with a bed of coal 1 foot thick near the top. The slumping
and weathering of this soft formation has caused the recession of the