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of the Coalmont are exposed on the structures' flanks. The <br />strike of the Coalmont is N25E on the north edge of the <br />tract and changes to N70E as the beds swing around the <br />southern end of the anticline on the west property <br />boundary. The dip of the Coalmont formation is about 35° <br />to the southeast at the north property boundary and decreases <br />to about 22° to the southeast on the east edge of the lease. <br />Some faulting is known to occur along the southwest edge <br />of the McCallum anticline. Minor faulting has also been <br />observed in the existing pit of the Canadian Strip mine <br />north of the lease. The principal fault transected in the <br />old pit has a displacement of about 15 feet. Some faulting <br />is suggested on the lease tract by Carper (1957); however, <br />• none has as yet been located and mapped in detail. <br />Ground Water Recharge and Migration <br />The 90-acre lease tract lies in a recharge area of the <br />Lower Coalmont Formation. The area of this lease is <br />topographically high and is not transected by any perennial <br />st:-eams. Consequently, all recharge to the aquifer from <br />the tract must occur from precipitation events. Water <br />entering the Coalmont is expected to migrate down gradient, <br />roughly perpendicular to the strike of the beds toward the <br />deeper part of the basin. <br />4 <br />