200 



Miles and 

 Kilometres. 



17 m. Leanchoil — Alt. 3, 681 ft. (1,123m.) Looking 



27-2 km. east along the railway, the Ottertail range 

 lies in the background. Chancellor peak 

 (10,751 feet, 3,276-8111.) is especially prominent. 

 Behind this ridge lies Ice River valley, in which 

 is exposed the only igneous complex in this 

 portion of the Rocky mountains. It covers 

 about 12 square miles, has the form of an 

 asymmetrical laccolith, and is alkaline in 

 composition. This is one of the few localities 

 in which sodalite is found in considerable quan- 

 tities. 



Between the second and third peaks to the 

 left of Chancellor peak, the contact between 

 the dark coloured igneous rock, (an ijolite), 

 and the gray limestone can be seen from this 

 point. 

 22-9 m. Palliser — Alt. 3,283 ft. (1,001 m.). The 



36-6 km. highly sheared Goodsir shales outcrop at many 

 places on either side of the railway. North 

 of the station is a fault-line scarp on the shoulder 

 Mt. Hunter. The up-throw has been on the 

 northeast side so that the Upper Cambrian 

 beds adjoin the faulted edges of the Lower 

 Ordovician shales. 



The glacial gravels are over 200 feet (61 m.) 

 thick, and are frequency well terraced on 

 both sides of Kicking Horse valley. 



West of this point the valley narrows, and 

 a canyon has been cut through steeply tilted 

 Ordovician and Silurian beds in the Beaverfoot 

 range. 

 28-4 m. Glenogle — Alt. 2,991 ft. (911-5 m.). The 



45-4 km. best exposure of the black, fissile, Graptolite 

 shales will be seen in the first small creek at 

 the west end of the railway siding. This 

 fauna is especially abundant in one thin layer 

 of this formation. Throughout the remainder 

 of the canyon the structure is complicated by 

 faults and overturned folds. The Silurian 

 beds are recognized as white quartzites and 

 gray massive dolomitic limestones. This form- 

 ation is highly fossiliferous in certain horizons. 



