Bulletin of the Geological Society of America . Figure 6.—Close View of Mud ButtesShowing intense folding and Figure 7.—Close View of Mud ButtesShowing intense folding and faulting. 426 O. B. HOPKINS STRUCTURAL FEATURES OF PLAIXS OF ALBERTA there is no uplift at Mud Buttes, as has heen supposed by many geologistswho have visited the area. Eegarding Tit Hills, the other center of supposed uplift, the evidenceis similar and equally convincing that no local uplift is present. A wellwas drilled on the north side of these hills, on the supposed uplift, andinstead of finding a structural
Bulletin of the Geological Society of America . Figure 6.—Close View of Mud ButtesShowing intense folding and Figure 7.—Close View of Mud ButtesShowing intense folding and faulting. 426 O. B. HOPKINS STRUCTURAL FEATURES OF PLAIXS OF ALBERTA there is no uplift at Mud Buttes, as has heen supposed by many geologistswho have visited the area. Eegarding Tit Hills, the other center of supposed uplift, the evidenceis similar and equally convincing that no local uplift is present. A wellwas drilled on the north side of these hills, on the supposed uplift, andinstead of finding a structural high found the formations at their normaldepth. Thus the base of the Colorado found at 154 feet above sealevelat Fabyan, 40 miles to the north, is found here at 233 feet below sealevel,showing the normal southward dip of 914 feet per mile. The larger group of hills to the south of Mud Buttes, named MistyHills, have not been deformed to the same extent as Mud Buttes, but thismay be explained readily as due to the greater resistance of their muchlarger mass. Considerable dislocation of the normal attitude of the st
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