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CANADIAN COALS AND LIGNITES.—Dr. G. M. Dawson collects and publishes, chiefly from the Reports of the Geological Survey of Canada, some useful Notes on the Coals and Lignites of the Canadian North-West. These mineral fuels are all of Cretaceous and Tertiary age. They are extensively developed near the Bow and Belly Rivers and their tributaries, extending eastward from the base of the mountains to about the 111th meridian; but as this is the only region yet examined in detail by the Survey, there may yet prove to be other districts of equal value. Where the Cretaceous rocks have been much disturbed and folded, the coal passes into the condition of anthracite, of which a seam occurs on the Cascade River near its confluence with the Bow River and close to the line of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Out on the plains, however, the strata are nearly flat, and as they recede from the mountains the coals show a larger percentage of water, and assume more or less completely the character of lignites.
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Geological Notes. Nature 30, 154–155 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/030154b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/030154b0