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GUIDE BOOK No. 8. 

 Part II. 



CONTENTS. 



PAGE. 



Introduction to the Geology of the Cordillera, 



by Reginald A. Daly in 



General topography in 



Glaciation of the Cordillera 116 



General stratigraphy 117 



Columnar section 118 



Shuswap terrane 122 



Shuswap series 122 



Orthogneisses and intrusive granites. ... 126 



Beltian system 132 



Cambrian system 138 



Ordovician system 142 



Silurian system 143 



Devonian system 143 



Mississippian system 143 



Pennsylvanian system 144 



Permian system 145 



Triassic system 145 



Jurassic system 145 



Cretaceous system 147 



Eocene system 148 



Oligocene system 148 



Pleistocene system 149 



General structure 149 



Note on the igneous bodies 154 



General history 157 



Specially noteworthy features 164 



Bibliographic note 165 



Rocky Mountains (Bankhead to Golden), 



by John A Allan 167 



Stratigraphy 167 



Columnar section 167 



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