The Huroman Question.—Coleman., 333 
strike and dip, having been acted on by the same mountain 
building forces. 
Everyone who has examined the relations of the Animikie 
to the Lower Huronian has found a quite opposite condition 
of affairs. The Animikie, with very little in the way of basal 
conglomerate or in many cases none at all, rests horizontally 
on the steeply tilted Huronian and Laurentian schists, and’ has 
therefore been deposited since the whole of the folding and 
tilting of the Huronian took place; so that it has not at all 
the relations to the Lower Huronian found where Upper and 
Lower Huronian occur together in other parts of northern 
Ontario. 
The most satisfactory proof of the later age of the Anim- 
ikie would be to find it resting unconformably on the Upper 
Huronian schist conglomerate, but up to the present no out- 
crop showing this has been observed. 
Though this absolutely conclusive evidence is lacking, the 
nearest outcrops of Upper Huronian conglomerate are so 
different in character and attitude as to make the discordance 
suggested very probable. At Heron bay on the east there 
are steeply tilted, greatly sheared schist conglomerates par- 
allel with iron range rocks of the Lower Huronian. A few 
miles to the north of Port Arthur Dr. Bell reports dioritic 
conglomerates, with various slates or schists and some quartz 
ytes, evidently normal Upper and Lower Huronian rocks 
as different as possible from the belt of flat lying Animikie 
just to the south, though unfortunately he has not recorded 
the dip; and he mentions the same conglomerates within 
eight miles of the Animikie near the Kaministiquia river.* 
Prof. Willmott has found Upper Huronian conglomerate of 
the ordinary type west of Port Arthur and only a short 
distance from the Animikiey ; and schist conglomerates have 
been observed by Mr. McInnes at various points in the She- 
bandowan region to the west,t as well as by Dr. Lawson to the 
southwest on lake Saganaga,§ and still farther west on Seine 
river, Rainy lake and lake of the Woods. 
We find characteristic schist conglomerates of the Upper 
Huronian, steeply tilted and parallel in position with the Low- 
* Geol. Sur. Can., ini 60. op soaeadaae. — 
+ Jour. Geol., vol. x, No. 1, 1902, p. 74. 
t Geol. Sur. Can., 1897, pp. 18 and 19 H. 
§ Lake Superior Stratigraphy, AM. GEOL., vol, vii, 1891, p. 324. 
