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drainage, topography, tone and color, and almost always have a <br />structural connotation. Alignments usually relate to faults • <br />although they also may be the result of jointing. A group of three <br />subparallel alignments trending about N25-40W are mapped in cie NE <br />cor. sec. 18. A fourth alignment is roughly normal to this _rend <br />and essentially terminates the other three other alignments. The <br />group of three alignments is interpreted to represent tensional <br />fractures associated with the west flank of the Fish Creek <br />anticline. The fourth alignment may represent a stress-relief <br />fracture essentially normal to the axis of the anticline. <br />3.4 Hydroloav <br />An extensive commentary on hydrology is not within the scope <br />of this investigation; however, certain comments are appropriate as • <br />they relate to the haul-road alignment. <br />The field work for this investigation was in September, during <br />the hydrologic low stage. At that time, the only stream flowing in <br />the southern part of the area was the unnamed drainage that flows <br />essentially northward from the center of the proposed mining <br />operation. Several springs and seeps were seen along this stream <br />and probably were due to a relatively shallow, or perched water <br />table. <br />Twenty-five test holes were drilled for soil and rock samples. <br />The holes that encountered water were all drilled in alluvial <br />deposits. The distribution of holes in which water levels were <br />measured is such that a definitive concept cannot be formed of the <br />water table in the main drainage that passes through the proposed • <br />16 <br />