no. 4.] hind — north-eastern labrador. 239 



Section in Hamilton Inlet. 



Section No. I, — Ascending Order. 



Dip S. 52 E. (True) angle 3C°. Cleavage planes at right angles to 

 dip. East side of Mullen's Cove. 



Bed ThicHess 

 iVo. Feet. 

 18 Grey weathering, finely handed, quartzose gneiss, with 

 lenticular layers of micaceous schist. At the hase the 

 hand becomes mure micaceous until it passes into a 

 compact dark grey mica schist, some of the layers gar- 

 netiferous 200 



17 Finely handed gartnetiferous gneiss 50 



}Q Fine grained gneiss, — with coarse granitic Dyke cutting 

 the strata at a low angle, — interst ratified with garnet- 



iferous, micaceous hands 37 



15 Compact micaceous schist with small garnets 10 



14 Finely handed gneiss, some layers garnetiferous 60 



13 Garnetiferous gneiss 26 



12 Very coarse quartzose gneiss with numerous patches and 



crystals of quartz 18 



11 Banded gneiss in very thin layers with a hed of calcareous 

 conglomerate, 13 inches thick; thin layers of crystalline 

 limestone, from four feet to one inch in thickness, and 

 thin layers of coarse gneiss, mica schist, and fel spathic 



schist 120 



10 Coarse handed gneiss 60 



9 Coarse gneiss with hands of fine micaceous schist 6 



8 Red Felspathic gneiss 6 



7 Banded gneiss 25 



6 Coarse q uartzose gneiss 25 



5 Dark colored micaceous gneiss 6 



4 Band of garnetiferous gneiss v 20 



3 Fine handed micaceous gneiss 30 



2 Coarse handed gneiss with granitic veins 18 



1 Coarse gneiss 8 



Total thickness 727 



