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Author : Bayrock, L.A.
Date : 1958
Title : Glacial geology, Alliance-Brownfield district, Alberta.
Publication : Alberta Research Council, Earth Sciences Reports
Issue : 57-02
Page(s) : 43 pp
Abstract
The eastern part of the Alliance-Brownfield district is made up of hummocky dead-ice moraine and the western part is a relatively flat till plain, the Torlea flats (Warren, 1937). Till covers most of the surface of the area, and other glacial and nonglacial deposits comprise only a small fraction of the total. The bedrock of the area is composed of Upper Cretaceous unconsolidated bentonitic shales and sandstones which have a gentle dip to tbe southwest. Examination of the glacial land forms in the Alliance-Brownfield district suggests that they were deposited from stagnant ice. Consequently, the origin of glacial deposits and the glacial history is discussed in terms of large- scale downwasting and stagnation of the last glacier which covered the district.Results of a shallow drilling program and a description of gravel deposits found in this district are given at the end of this report.
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