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field work must be done in the hills between Pine and Peace River Valleys,
however, to establish this correlation.

Horseshoe Hill Structure
(See Figure 8)

The structure on Horseshoe Hill and along the valley of Horseshoe
Creek is interpreted as a sharply crested anticline, faulted along its axis
(McLearn, 1940). On the southwest limb are southwest-dipping ‘Grey
beds’ and Pardonet beds, and on the northeast limb are east-dipping
‘Grey beds’, Pardonet beds, shales of the Fernie group, and sandstones,
shales, and conglomerates of the Bullhead group. Two high-angle faults
have been observed on the crest of the structure in the upper part of Horse-
shoe Hill Valley; it is probable, however, that only one fault continues to
the southeast. The structure in the lower part of Horseshoe Hill Creek
has not been studied in detail.

Mathews (1947) has shown that a similar structure occurs on the
northeast side of the Carbon Creek basin and in line with the Horseshoe
Hill structure. He records only one overthrust fault, the plane of which has
a high southwest dip.

Schooler Creek Syncline

(See Figure 8)

West of the Horseshoe Hill and east of the Folded Hill structure,
the Triassic ‘Grey beds’ and Pardonet beds are folded into a wide, shallow
syncline plunging southeast (McLearn, 1941B). It is the northwest end
of the Carbon Creek synclinal basin to be described in a later paragraph.

On Red Rock Spur, the southwesterly dips of the southwest limb of
the Horseshoe Hill structure and northeast limb of the Schooler Creek
syncline are high. They become much lower and almost flatten on the
east side of Jewitt Spur and adjacent to the Jewitt fault. On this high-
angle fault the ‘Grey beds’ are thrust over the Pardonet beds. West of
this fault is a low, subsidiary arch on the Dry Canyon shoulder. West
of Schooler Creek, on Kerr Spur and on Mahaffy Cliffs, and near the north-
Tete) of the synclinal basin, are low, southeasterly dips (McLearn,
1941B).

Folded Hill Structure
(See Figure 8)

On Folded Hill, on the north side of Peace River, between Mahafty
Cliffs and Brown Hill, the ‘Grey beds’ are folded into two anticlines and
two synclines. This composite structure is probably bounded on both the
east and west sides by high-angle overthrusts, and is probably continuous
to the southeast with folds on the southwestern margin of the Carbon
Creek basin.

Brown Hill Structure

The Brown Hill structure lies at the end of the 10-mile section on the
north side of Peace River, from Tepee Rocks Spur to Beattie Hill, studied
by McLearn. West of Folded Hill and continuing west to Tepee Rocks
Spur, Triassic, Jurassic, and early Lower Cretaceous rocks dip steeply to the