Ontario Geological Survey
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| Record Name(s) | Glenorchy - 1977 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1983-Dec-28 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Mar-02 |
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Primary Commodities: Clay
Township or Area: Bennett Lake Area
Latitude: 48° 45' 47.27" Longitude: -92° 25' 11.85"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 542626.47 Northing: 5401286.94 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kenora
NTS Grid: 52C16SW
Point Location Description: General
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
No assessment reports found on file.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Clay | 1 |
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Sep 29, 2020 (Therese Pettigrew) - "Varved clays are widespread in Northwestern Ontario, as a succession of post-glacial lakes in the Lake Superior basin, and Lake Agassiz in the west.... The glacial ice commenced its withdrawal from the Lake Superior basin about the same time as the formation of early Lake Agassiz.... "Non-varved stoneless clays were deposited from some of the later lakes, and more recent stratified clays have originated by reworking of earlier ones, including tills, and redeposition on recent flood plains" (Guillet 1977, p.101). Buff coloured clay upon firing at 1660 degrees F, 1840 degrees F and 1980 degrees F turns from a pale salmon, to salmon, to a red-brown in colour. It is a smooth textured and attractive clay with hardness varying from fairly soft to steel hard (Vos et al., 1982).
MonoMap - Clay and shale deposits of Ontario
Publication Number: MDC015 Scale: Date: 1977
Author: Guillet G.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Mono - Industrial minerals of northern Ontario-supplement 1
Publication Number: OFR5388 Scale: Date: 1982
Author: Vos M.A., Abolins T., Smith V.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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