ere : 1
Driftwood. (Tertiary rocks). 1.8 foot of Clcan coal, 1.8 fect,

occurs in 15 fect of coal and shale. The coal is Vienatice in

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— Fossils collected from here in 1934 were examined by W.A.Bell
and regarded as Upper Eocene or Oligocene.

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character ond only slightly deformed, but nearby underlying

strata are considerably deformed and faulted.
Boe :
Lake Kothlyn.£:< The rocks in which coal occurs here belong to

the Skeena formation .= The character and succession of the rocks,

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a Hanson, George: Geol. Surv., Canada, Sun. Ree L2H. 5 LY.
— Ann. Repts. Minister of Mines, B.C.: 1926, p. 161; 1917, p.125.

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—W.A. Bell’reports that a collection of fossil plants collected
at the Lake Kathlyn coal mine in 1934 are considered to be
Lower Cretaceous in age and to be more probably of Lower
Blairmore age than Kootenay. The formation containing them
is considered to be the same as that at Goat creek, Telkwa
river (Skeena formation).

the presence and position of the coal seams near the base of the
series, the changes in extent of metamorphism from place to
place, and other features of the Hudson Bay mountain cool-bearing
series, even without the fossil evidence, suggest correlation
with the Telkwa River series.

Six seams, three of which are over 3 feet thick, are
known. They dip 40 degrees to 70 degrees toward Bulkley valley
and are much deformed, faulted, sheared, and crushec.

In 1934 a low-level, cross-cut adit about 100 feet above
the base of Glacier gulch was in 400 feet. It passed through a
series of shale, argillite, and sheared argillite, with parts
thet are highly carbonaccous and coaly and have some small coal
seams. it the face there was a rether complex mass of clean,
unbroken coal, sheared and graphitic coal, hard argillite, and
graphitic and carbonaceous schist. There appeared to be two
seams, a thin seam of 1 foot or less, and enother which on the

south side showed 5 to 6 fect of material that was mostly clean