The Soils of The Regional Municipality of Ottawa=Carleton
The Soils of The Regional Municipality of Ottawa=Carleton
The Soils of The Regional Municipality of Ottawa=Carleton
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QUATERNARY<br />
ORDOVICIAN<br />
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Queenston Formation : red shale<br />
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Q PLEISTOCENE AND RECENT<br />
Recent alluvium and glacial deposits - bedrock unknown<br />
Carlsbad Formation : grey shale, sandy shale, some dolomite<br />
layers<br />
Billings Formation : black shale ; minor brown shale<br />
Eastview Formation : dark grey limestone with shale bands<br />
Ottawa Formation : mainly limestone, some dolomite, shale and<br />
sandstone in basal part<br />
St . Martin Formation: limestone, minor shale and dolomite<br />
® March Formation: interbedded sandstone and dolomite<br />
ORDOVICIAN OR CAMBRIAN<br />
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PRECAMBRIAN<br />
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Bedrock geology <strong>of</strong>the Ottawa-Carleton Region .<br />
Oxford Formation : dolomite and limestone<br />
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Rockcliffe Formation : grey-green shale with lenses <strong>of</strong> grey<br />
sandstone<br />
PC Grenville Formation : crystalline limestone, quartzites, and<br />
metamorphic rocks; associated granites and granite-gneiss<br />
After Wilson, A .E . 1964 . Geology <strong>of</strong> the Ottawa-St . Lawrence<br />
Lowland . Geological Survey <strong>of</strong> Canada . Memoir<br />
241 .
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