244 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF THE . TERRITORIES. 



Section No. 23. 

 Ascending order : 



1. Light-red conglomerate sandstone alternating with fine-grained 



sandstone shales. The latter have a greenish tinge, and are mi- 

 caceous, and are from a foot to 2 feet in thickness. The conglom- 

 erate beds are about 2^ feet thick. The upper beds of shales are 

 darker in color and break into thin lamina, while the conglomerate 

 becomes lighter-colored ; while in the middle they are dark-red. 

 jSTear the top there is a layer of green shales about 8 feet in thick- 

 ness ; 231 feet. 



2. Silvery-gray micaceous sandstone shales, breaking into thin lami- 



nae, 1 foot. 



3. Coarse white sandstone, with grains of quartz and some decomposed 



feldspar. This layer is the same as No. 19 in section 22 5 3 feet. 



4. Fine-grained sandstone — white ; becoming pink in places, with two 



or three layers of gray micaceous shale, from two to four inches 

 thickness each, 4 feet. 



5. Brownish-red sandstone, somewhat conglomeritic in places, 30 feet, 



10 inches. 



6. Dark-red micaceous shaly sandstones, 6 feet 8 inches. 



7. Eed conglomeritic sandstone, 38 feet 8 inches. 



8. White conglomeritic sandstone, 5 feet. 



9. Coarse white sandstone. Near the top there is a band of very hard 



fine-grained red sandstone. All the beds seem to be micaceous ; 

 more marked between the layers ; 40 feet. 



10. White and greenish-gray conglomerates and shales. First we have 



^ conglomerate and then green micaceous shales, with black car- 

 bonaceous layers ', then conglomeritic layers, above which we have 

 about 15 feet of hard sandstone, with interlaminated shales that 

 are soft ; then 5 feet of gray compact micaceous sandstone. Next 

 there are very soft greenish-gray micaceous shales for about 10 

 feet, followed by from 10 to 12 feet of alternate beds of shale and 

 sandstone, (some of the latter conglomeritic,) varying from 2 to 4 

 feet in thickness. Above these we have first conglomerates, then 

 shales, and last of all, conglomerates; 511 feet 7 inches. 



11. Coarse-grained gray sandstone, very hard, with greenish spots, 4 



feet. 



12. Fine-grained reddish-brown sandstone, 27 feet 4 inches. 



13. (hoarse grayish sandstone, with interlaminated shales near the top ; 



there is a layer of red sandstone, above which there is a con- 

 glomerate layer ; 25 feet 1 inch, 



14. Sandstone conglomerate below, with pebbles of quartz, 2 inches 



in diameter. This bed is the base of a bluff, and is about 10 feet 

 thick. Above there are alternate beds of shale and coarse sand- 

 stone. On top of all there is greenish micaceous sandstone ; 252 

 feet. 



15. Sandstone and shales, 251 feet 7 inches. 



16. Sandstone conglomerate, 5 feet. 



17. Shales, 20 feet. 



18. Coarse sandstone and fine micaceous shales, 86 feet 10 inches. '' 



19. Conglomeritic sandstone, 3 feet 9 inches. 



20. Blackish micaceous shales, 3 feet 9 inches. 



21. Light gray shales, with hard sandstone bands, 3 feet 9 inches. 



22. Conglomerate and gray shales, 92 feet 9 inches. 



23. Pink conglomeritic sandstones, 37 feet 5 inches. 



