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CHARACTERIZATION OF OUTBURST CHANNEL SANDSTONES IN THE PHALEN COLLIERY, CAPE BRETON, NOV A SCOTIA
(1997-04-15)
The Phalen Colliery of New Waterford, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia is currently mining coal from
the Phalen Seam of the Sydney Mines Formation, part of the offshore Carboniferous Sydney
Basin. Since opening in 1984, the ...
SILICATE AND SULPHIDE MINERAL ASSEMBLAGES AND METAMORPHIC FABRICS FROM PELITES IN THE CONTACT AUREOLE OF THE SOUTH MOUNTAIN BATHOLITH, HALIFAX AREA, NOVA SCOTIA
(1998-04-15)
Contact metamorphism resulting from intrusion of the South Mountain Batholith
(SMB) at 372 Ma produced textural and mineralogical changes in rocks of the Meguma
Supergroup. A detailed petrographic study of the contact ...
DETERMINATION OF BULK PERMEABILITY WITHIN THE MORIEN GROUP USING THE FORCING OF OCEAN TIDES IN THE SYDNEY BASIN IN CAPE BRETON, NOVA SCOTIA
(1997-04-15)
Since November 1992 the Lingan Colliery in the Sydney coalfield has been steadily
filling with water. At the same time the water level in the previously flooded 1B region
and the No 26 Colliery has been gradually decreasing. ...
MODELING OF A PALEOCENE SUBMARINE CANYON, JEANNE D'ARC BASIN, OFFSHORE NEWFOUNDLAND, TO DETERMINE CANYON FILL LITHOLOGY
(1997-04-15)
The Hibernia Paleocene Canyon, located in the Jeanne d'Arc Basin, offshore Newfoundland, was modeled using the BasinMod lD and BasinMod 2D software packages to determine the lithology of the canyon fill. Petroleum industry ...
STRATIGRAPHY OF THE GOLDENVILLE GROUP-HALIFAX GROUP TRANSITION (GHT) OF THE MEGUMA SUPERGROUP AT CARIBOU GOLD DISTRICT (DRILLCORE LL81-5A), NOV A SCOTIA
(1997-04-15)
Drillcore LL81-5A, recovered from Caribou gold district, Halifax County, Nova Scotia, by
Sherritt Gordon Mines Ltd. in 1980, is a 625.40 m-long continuous section of the CambroOrdovician
Meguma Supergroup, representing ...
EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF CATION EXCHANGE BETWEEN FORMATION WATERS AND SANDSTONES AND SHALES, PHALEN COLLIERY, CAPE BRETON
(1998-04-15)
The Phalen Colliery mines coal from the Phalen seam in the Upper Carboniferous
Sydney Mines Formation. Flooding events in the colliery since 1992 warrant an
investigation of the origin and chemical history of the inflow ...
Structural Geology and Deformation Of The Meguma Group At The Northeastern Contact Of The South Mountain Batholith, Halifax Area, Nova Scotia
(1997-04-15)
Structural mapping and petrographic analyses were conducted to document the
structural geology and deformation of the Meguma Group country rocks adjacent to the
Halifax Pluton of the South Mountain Batholith (SMB) near ...
ALLUVIAL FAN DEPOSITS OF THE CARBONIFEROUS GRANTMIRE FORMATION IN DRILL HOLE PE 83-1, SYDNEY BASIN, NOVA SCOTIA
(1999-04-15)
The Early Carboniferous (Tournaisian) Grantmire Formation belongs to the Horton
Group and is ~800 m thick, based on exposures and drill core in the northern part of the Sydney
Basin onshore. The 503 m measured section ...
Ancient Submarine Canyons. and Fans of the Carson Basin, Grand Banks, Offshore Newfoundland, Canada
(1999-04-15)
The Carson Basin lies beneath the Grand Banks, offshore Newfoundland, and is composed
of several depocenters, the deepest of which holds over 7 km of Mesozoic and Cenozoic strata. To
date only four exploration wells have ...
Seismic Velocities of Crustal Samples from the Tomgat Peninsula and Nain: ECSOOT'96
(1998-04-15)
The subsurface geology of central and northern Labrador, as well as the Labrador
Shelf, is presently being interpreted through the use of various seismic techniques. In the
fall of 1996, LITHOPROBE funded a wide-angle ...