For many years Labrador has been a land of mystery. The country is not well known, though today for economic reasons, its development is more apparent. Knowledge of the geography of the country is more complete than that of the…

This thesis is concerned with the ultrabasic rocks, especially the peridotites, throughout Northwestern Quebec. Its purpose is the correlation of information on the metamorphism, associations and age relationships of these ultrabasic rocks. This will involve a general review of the…

The primary object of the present work was to continue the experiments on beats of solution started by Moore (1955) in the Department of Geological Sciences, McGill University. In his work, Moore accumulated a fund of technical knowledge concerned with…

Exploitation of commercial “granite” (igneous stone) is aided by a knowledge of its mechanical properties and the geology of the quarry. A detailed petrographic study of “granite” from eighteen quarries in Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia reveals that…

This survey was undertaken in the hope of extending our knowledge of the Appalachian Mountain System and i t s erosional history by study of the topography of part of the System in Canada, The area studied lies chiefly in…

Microchemlcal analysis is one of the many methods used in the chemical examination of minerals. This method requires a petrographic microscope and also a knowledge of optical mineralogy. Since the microchemlcal method requires only a small sample, it is preferable…

This thesis is based on the literature of Dominion and Provincial Surveys of Canada and other pertinent sources. In scope, this investigation does not include the Grenville Sub-province because of its indecisive geological relationship to the remainder of the Shield.…

Although Labrador was the first part of the new world to be discovered, its inhospitable climate and terrain have resulted in its being one of the least known areas of North America. Owing to the inaccessibility of the interior, it…