Cross Lake Project (1983-86)

Geologist P.G. Lenton Year 84 STATION 5462
EASTING 574536 NORTHING 6059967 ZONE 14 DATUM NAD83
Date of mapping 06/24/1984

STRUCTURAL DATA

Layering:
Layering type | Strike | Dip | top Direction
bedding | 196 | 86 | W

-topping west

PETROLOGIC DATA

Rock Number: 1

Rock Type: sandstone
Descriptors:
festoon bedding
Field Description:

-still in uniform festooned sands moving up section there is a distinct increase in quartz content
-at this location about 65% approaching protoquartzite
-uniform well sorted festoon beds occur as one to 1.5 m units separated by quartz rich festoon bedded pebbly lithic arenites between 10 and 50 cm thick
-two 10 cm pellitic horizons rich in muscovite are separated by
1 m of clean sand
SAMPLE
A -sandstone
B -semipelite
C -pelite

Minerals of Note
Mineral | Abundance (%)
garnet
muscovite

Manitoba Geological Survey, 2017