| Sir John Richardson - 1854 - Počet stránok 528
...addition to the bitumen, of small grains of transparent quartz, unmixed with other rock, but inclosing a few minute fragments of the pearly lining of a shell....filled with that mineral, and when struck yields the odor of Stinkstein. It is probable that the whole belongs to the same formation, b\it I do not possess... | |
| Geological Survey of Canada - 1862 - Počet stránok 688
...in a fluid state ; heated it emits a smell like that of sea coal." And Sir John Richardson says, " The whole country for many miles is so full of bitumen...readily into a pit dug a few feet below the surface." — Decantan. Peat. 1. St. Hubert, Q .................... Canada Peat Fuel Cumyany, Montreal. a. Specimens... | |
| 1863 - Počet stránok 682
...from the banks lower down, and so impregnated is the whole country with bitumen that the oily liquid flows readily into a pit dug a few feet below the surface. The distance in a straight line from Clear Water River to the sources of the Athabaska is about three... | |
| Alexander Jamieson Russell - 1869 - Počet stránok 236
...description of the Arthabasca, he says that at Pierre au Calumet, and a few miles further down the river, the whole country, for many miles, is so full of bitumen, that if you dig a pit a few feet below the surface it flows readily into it ; and that below fiiviere Eouge... | |
| Geological Survey of Canada - 1876 - Počet stránok 166
...in a fluid state ; heated it emits a smell like that of sea coal." And Sir John Richardson says, " The whole country for many miles is so full of bitumen...readily into a pit dug a few feet below the surface." — Devonian. Peat. 1. St. Hubert, Q Canada Peat Fuel Company, Montreal. a. Specimens of peat prepared... | |
| North American Boundary Commission, George Mercer Dawson - 1876 - Počet stránok 462
...hundred yards back from the river in the middle of a thick wood." Of another locality he writes : " The whole country for many miles is so full of bitumen,...readily into a pit dug a few feet below the surface," * and similar references abound in his Journal. "Where bitumen exists in such abundance on the surface,... | |
| Geological Survey of Canada - 1876 - Počet stránok 182
...in a fluid state ; heated it emits a smell like that of sea coal.'' And Sir John Richardson says, " The whole country for many miles is so full of bitumen that it flows rendily into a pit dug a few feet below the surface." — Devonian. Peat. 1 . St. Hubert, Q Canada... | |
| John Macoun, George Monro Grant, Alexander Begg, John Campbell McLagan - 1882 - Počet stránok 736
...much hardness. The cliff is, in most places, capped by sand containing boulders of limestone. Every bituminous bed, carefully examined with the microscope,...readily into a pit dug a few feet below the surface. 1 Dr. George M. Dawson, Assistant Director of the Geological Survey of Canada, in his report on the... | |
| John Macoun - 1883 - Počet stránok 716
...much hardness. The cliff is, in most places, capped by sand containing boulders of limestone. Every bituminous bed, carefully examined with the microscope,...readily into a pit dug a few feet below the surface. Dr. George M. Dawson, Assistant Director of the Geological Survey of Canada, in his report on the geology... | |
| Canadian Institute (1849-1914) - 1884 - Počet stránok 478
...so cemented by iron as to form a firm dark-brown sandstone of much Jiardness. * * The whole iwuntry for many miles is so full of bitumen that it flows...In no place did I observe the limestone alternating witli these sandy bituminous beds, but in several localities it is itself highly bituminous, contains... | |
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