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Sample: WRA 16<br />

This sample was taken from the bed 16 in the measured section labeled WRA-<br />

Walkers Ridge; section A (Figure 3.11). <strong>The</strong> Walker’s Ridge section is an extensive<br />

outcrop <strong>of</strong> lamin<strong>at</strong>ed shales and sands (60 + meters) overlain <strong>by</strong> stacked thick sands<br />

separ<strong>at</strong>ed <strong>by</strong> silty shale intervals. <strong>The</strong> sample was taken from a coarse-grained sand bed<br />

interpreted as a channel fill deposit. Three measured sections; WRA, WRB and WRC<br />

were correl<strong>at</strong>ed across the outcrop to define a continuous 40 meter thick section <strong>at</strong> this<br />

locality. This outcrop has been interpreted to be a stacked channel-levee sequence th<strong>at</strong><br />

has been deposited in a mid-fan depositional setting.<br />

Mineralogy<br />

This sample is domin<strong>at</strong>ed <strong>by</strong> common quartz. Potassium (K) feldspar and<br />

plagioclase feldspar are present in small quantities, kaolinite and hem<strong>at</strong>ite cement is rare<br />

and no accessory minerals are observed. Quartz grains are extremely fractured and<br />

secondary intragranular porosity has been cre<strong>at</strong>ed. It is important to note th<strong>at</strong> while<br />

fractured quartz is dominant, no quartz cement has formed on fresh, clean fractured<br />

surfaces (Figure 3.12).<br />

Sample: WRB 8<br />

This sample was taken from bed 8 in the measured section labeled WRA-<br />

Walkers Ridge, section B (Figure 3.13). This measured section records 12 m <strong>of</strong> a very a<br />

sand-rich succession in which very coarse-grained sands domin<strong>at</strong>e and conglomer<strong>at</strong>e lag<br />

deposits are observed overlying erosive channel bases. This sample was taken from a<br />

coarse-grained sand bed th<strong>at</strong> was interpreted to be a channel-fill deposit.<br />

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