A Study of certain Canadian building and monumental stones of igneous origin.
Exploitation of commercial “granite” (igneous stone) is aided by a knowledge of its mechanical properties and the geology of the quarry. A detailed petrographic study of “granite” from eighteen quarries in Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia reveals that massive, unsheared granites and qu...
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McGill University
1952
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| Online Access: | http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=123938 |