Ontario Geological Survey
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| Record Name(s) | Basal Sandstone - 1990 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Discretionary Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1990-Dec-12 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Apr-06 |
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Primary Commodities: Sandstone
Township or Area: Fitzroy
Latitude: 45° 26' 25.47" Longitude: -76° 15' 32.66"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 401529.111 Northing: 5032647.142 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31F08NW
Point Location Description: Point 1.6 km N of Galetta, lot 23, con 6.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: Adjacent to the Kingdon Mine on lot 23, con 6 and a small outcrop on the road at the S end of lot 20, con 8.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - Basal (Potsdam) sandstone outcrops rarely in this area. At these localities it is an exceedingly fine-grained, white, granular sandstone which is only about 2 ft thick, maximum. On lot 20, con 8 the weathered surface is ridged and suggestive of the Cryptozoan structures seen in the Beekmantown dolomite to the E.
Publication - Arnprior-Quyon and Maniwaki areas, Ontario and Quebec; Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir 136
Publication Number: GSC Mem 136 Page: 44-45 Date: 1924
Author: Wilson, M E
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/100837
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