"[49]
About a hundred miles further south, but still in Alberta, we have the
well-known Crow's Nest Mountain, a lone peak, which consists of these
same Algonkian limestones resting on a Cretaceous valley "in a nearly
horizontal attitude," as G.M. Dawson says, which "in its structure and
general appearance much resembles Chief Mountain,"[50] another detached
peak some fifty miles further south, just across the boundary line in
Montana.
Chief Mountain has been well described by Bailey Willis,[51] who
estimates that the Cretaceous beds underneath this mountain must be
3,500 feet thick; while the so-called "thrust plane is essentially
_parallel to the bedding_" of the upper series.[52]
"This apparently is true not only of the segments of thrust surface
beneath eastern Flattop, Yellow, and Chief Mountain, but also of the
more deeply buried portions which appear to dip with the Algonkian
strata into the syncline. While observation is not complete, it may be
assumed on a basis of fact that thrust surfaces and bedding are nearly
parallel over extensive areas."[53]
[Footnote 49: Report, 1886, Part D, p. 84.]
[Footnote 50: Report, 1885, Part B, p. 67.]
[Footnote 51: _Bull. Geol. Soc._, Vol. 13, pp. 305-352.
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