Bedrock Geology Map of the Wolfville-Windsor Area, NTS Sheet
Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources Mineral Resources Branch 64°00' 64°30'
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Fundy Basin Kennetcook 8 the Wolfville-Windsor Area,
Basin E#Hh/m Basin QUATERNARY not differentiated but widely distributed on this bedrock geology map, includes:
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f 8 r o 8 c r n t PLEISTOCENE: glacial till and ablation till including gravelly tills with a high stone content, locally distributed, and may rest on the earlier glacial units; glaciofluvial deposits including eskers, kames, kame
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U Shaw/Ch t 09 u terraces, deltas and outwash; ground moraine deposits including sandy, silty, clayey till, unsorted and unstratified with a stone content in a great size range. In the Bay of Fundy this unit is called Scotian
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B mation 50 Stephens H01-010 e e 65 n i o MacDonald 57 Ba,Mn
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H01-014 s
R Kentville f Road Formation 75
Wentworth Station Formation 62 a c
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k d a Formation Ì 15 42 CHASWOOD FORMATION (E"c): silica sand, grey and red kaolinitic clay, minor lignite; fluvial sediments near coastal floodplain deposits near the Mesozoic continent/Atlantic Ocean coastal margin. Outcrop
E*Fn d t
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F l i Miller Creek Formation 8 Corner 60 50
m e o 65 L^Fw H01-013 f 42 . n
H a localities are known in the gypsum quarry at Miller Creek and McKay Settlement areas, also suspected presence in the recent exploration by Metall Mining in the Goshen area near Walton. Thickness of these 30 Ì H01-044 E"c
88 o Fm. Gays River 7 58 Î 40 a Salem-Admiral u
r E#Wwq 08 to t units in the region ranges from nil to >60 m.
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55 c Formation B 37 e
Scale 1:50 000 L l 25 a pre-Cretaceous regional unconformity
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82 l f 20 L^Fw Fe 70 E#Wmr w 55 f Stewiacke Formation E#Wm l
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Formation H rm t Ì
zeolite o Halifax Series of northeas Fe JURASSIC (Early)
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to ti nding fold axis at
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Ì Mn FUNDY GROUP
zeolite n W m 30
B hite n a Formation 25-100 m intervals 50 E#Hh/m
l Quar atio re 45 78 H01-015 u ry Form st n GL-6-1
Halifax, Nova Scotia H01-052 Meguma Group f . d o 55 20 Walton Mine
f m l ti GL-6-3 F o F ber a 2009 Macum C m Goldenville 27 60 Cu Zn Mn Ba Pb Ag BC-83-10
m or S 35 68 SCOTS BAY FORMATION (E*Fs): light coloured interbedded sandstone, limestone and claystone, variably calcareous, with chert and jasperoid replacements of limestone near the base (thermal spring activity),
07 South . F T 40
Musquodoboit 53 28
N A GL-6-4
I Formation L E#Hh/m 35 E*Fs post-volcanic fluvial-lacustrine (thermal spring altered) sediments. Thickness ranges from 8 m in type section up to 369 m in Bay of Fundy (including correlative McCoy Brook Formation in Chinampas N-37 well)
TA 54 45
N F 35 GL-6-2
U Cheverie Formation 17 BC-83-9 E
O Mountain Ì disconformity
M Batholith G 45
TH Halifax ID 68 85 gypsum BC-83-11 TZ-136-1 R R 80 06 E#Hh/l
O B 53 Î 73 BC-83-8
N Batholith 74 H01-037
Formation M
A 58 23 NaCl
35 Walton Mine Area: TRIASSIC - JURASSIC
C E#Hh/u
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ND-12 NORTH MOUNTAIN FORMATION (E*Fn): tholeiitic basalt, massive, columnar and amygdaloidal flows with variable zeolite and silica minerals, rare thin (< 1 m) interflow siliciclastic interbeds, lower and upper Î 60 10
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Meguma Group 35 Î
06 South 35 50
Formation Mn,Ba,Fe BC-83-12 flow units typically thick single flows of massive columnar jointed, coarse-grained basalt (up to 190 m) with a middle unit comprising multiple thin amygdaloidal flows. Regionally distributed tholeiitic plateau
48 57 E#Hh/u 40 E*Fn
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25 H01-016, 80 basalt (Fundy Rift). Thickness is approximately 274 m in the map area, and may exceed 400 m near Digby and in the Bay of Fundy.
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Mountain 25 H01-017
35 H01-039
4 55 Sturgis 55 paraconformity
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Meguma Group Batholith E#Hh/m 20 Mine 75
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25 Ì E#Wwq Regional Key Map 40 Ì 05 50 31 WS-6 BLOMIDON FORMATION (L^Fb): interbedded mudrocks including laminated and cross-bedded red shale, siltstone, fine sandstone. Distal (intra)continental rift basin (arid-aeolian) lacustrine, playa,
32 35 25 20 WS-5
zeolite 25 Mn
Series of northeast fluvial-deltaic, mudflat (locally gypsiferous) and minor aeolian sediments. Thickness up to 370 m in the type area near Cape Blomidon and 1100 m in the Bay of Fundy (Chinampas N-37 well).
45 WS-4 L^Fb
Highly simplified diagrammatic representation of the geological map units in the Wolfville and Windsor area. 36 WS-7 H01-051 E#Wmr H01-018
trending fold axis at 50 conformable gradational contact
IP-1
66°W 64°W 62°W 60°W NSDM6174 25-75 m intervals 48 Ì 40 04
20 30 Fe,Mn 70 E#Wws
AV-J-1 25 10 65 Tomlinson Mine
NSDM6173 25 H01-007
E#Hh/m 25 WS-8 WOLFVILLE FORMATION (L^Fw): variably sorted, medium- to coarse-grained brownish red sandstone, pebbly sandstone and conglomerate near the base and minor mudrock interbeds. Stratification is
Mn Fe
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20 Fe,Mn Ba,Fe,Mn
55 25 typically large scale, cross-bedded. Near margin (intra)continental rift basin (arid-aeolian) representative of proximal to intermediate alluvial-fluvial (braided river) and aeolian arkosic to orthoquartzitic deposits
H01-007 H01-001 L^Fw NSDM6177 K
45 that grade vertically and laterally with the overlying Blomidon Formation. Thickness reported up to 360 m near Cape Blomidon but is probably nearly 760 m, and exceeds 2000 m in the Bay of Fundy.
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40 Mn 18 15 WS-4
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Area with Mafic 30 e Ì 40 Ì WS-3 regional Mesozoic angular unconformity-nonconformity H01-026 E#Wm
Dykes/Sills H 20 33 48 43 WS-2 n
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( L^Fw E#Hcv 15 25 20 35 PM-72-4
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Ì 22 10 PM-72-5 PM-72-2 LATE CARBONIFEROUS 25 k
New Cheverie#3 P 20 Mn,Fe 15
.E 03 L^Fb 30 24 22 PM-72-7, PM-72-1 CUMBERLAND GROUP
7 30 WS-9 H01-019 T . Î Brunswick I. 55
17 85 ( ( 14 h 30 E#Wm 46°N 46°N 30 12 28 r SCOTCH VILLAGE FORMATION (L#Csv) : grey, blue-grey and grey-green sandstone (buff weathering) with minor red to red-brown sandstone, interstratified with red and minor grey mudrocks including
E#Wwq MB-02 ? E"c 02 u s Bas i n Ba,Cu,Fe,Mn E#Wm n a M i siltstone, shale and fine sandstone, rare thin coal and variable plant debris in channel sandstone lag. Sandstone is medium-grained, variably stratified, cross-bedded, with locally well developed fining 13 s
E#Wmc 30 L#Csv
H01-002 MB-03 t
upward channels, basal units are locally polymictic paraconglomerate. Continental fluvial floodplain deposits representative of braided river and wet to dry floodplain deposition. Thickness exceeds 300 m
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45 35 F
15 I ( ( E#Wwq Multiple Drillholes MB-04
Mn n in the eastern part of the map area, near the Scotch Village type area. The stratigraphy, age and distribution of the Scotch Village Formation are not well understood due in part to lack of outcrop and (
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E#Hh/u 30 W subsurface data. The age of the strata assigned to the Scotch Village Formation ranges from Namurian to mid-Westphalian based on spore assemblages. u H01-020 ( (
02 L^Fw CL61-series r l 20 47 p concordant disconformity to angular unconformity
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5 4 ( WATERING BROOK FORMATION (E-L#Mw) : light to medium grey, green-grey and minor red mudrocks especially in the upper part. Interbeds of gypsum, anhydrite and, locally, rare salt (e.g. drillhole HC-1
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01 8 Mn ( h Ì near Clarkesville) occur near the base. Mudrocks comprise variably calcareous and poorly stratified shale, siltstone and fine sandstone. Deposits represent the evaporitic marine to variably saline
10 S2/2 P2 i
n e s E-L#Mw
a H01-026 E#Wmc
5 e 20 continental lacustrine deposition characteristic of the Windsor and Mabou groups. Thickness in the region ranges from 130 m to more than 250 m.
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GC80-6 15 E#Wwq MURPHY ROAD (Green Oaks) FORMATION (E#Wmr): red with minor grey-green siltstone and fine-grained sandstone with thin but stratigraphically important (regional and local correlation) and lithologically
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50 m
00 h ( 15 ( E#Wws a 20
! E#Wmc l 5 u distinctive fossiliferous marine carbonates; interbeds of gypsum and anhydrite are also typical minor components. Redbeds in the Walton area formerly referred to as Ten n yca p e Form ation a re no w
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Ì 87 i included in the Murphy Road Formation. The following sequence of limestone members in descending order is characteristic: Kennetcook, Wallace Point, Meander River, Avon, Brooklyn Station, Herbert
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a 12 6 GC80-5 99 h River. Deposits represent the highly cyclic continental redbed, shallow marine evaporite and marine carbonate deposition characteristic of the Windsor Group. Thickness in the region ranges from 185 m NTS Map Sheets . . . 5 . e Macumber, Boyle l
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L^Fw Mn s 2) y to more than 300 m (720 m indicated in the exceptionally thick sections near the type section of the Green Oaks Formation in the northern part of the Shubenacadie Basin).
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GC80-4 PESAQUID LAKE FORMATION (E#Wpl) : red with minor grey-green siltstone and fine-grained sandstone with thin marine carbonates including in descending order the following sequence of limestone H01-036 v !
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35 15 e members: Lebreau and Pesaquid. Deposits represent the highly cyclic continental redbed, marine evaporite and marine carbonate deposition characteristic of the Windsor Group. Approximate thickness 99 14
r E#Wpl GC80-1 ( E#Wmc o 66°W 64°W 62°W 60°W Y GC80-9 is 30 m.
E 58 b L ! L 25 A a V GC80-2 5 Mn,Ba,Zn, disconformity, locally a structural break b
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N WENTWORTH STATION FORMATION (E#Wws) : gypsum and anhydrite, subordinate, interstratified red with minor grey-green siltstone and fine-grained sandstone, rare thin salt, and thin but stratigraphically
N i A dykes, reported GC80-8
Map Notes 5 Area with Mafic ( 47 md n
78-K2 78-K1 GC80-10 5Ì E#Wm c important (regional and local correlation) and lithologically distinctive fossiliferous marine carbonates, and the following sequence of carbonate members in ascending order: St. Croix Limestone, Phillips !
by Fletcher
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35 u MCB56-1 GC80-3 32 Limestone, Dimock Limestone, North 60 Limestone. Deposits represent the highly cyclic shallow marine evaporite, continental redbed, and marine carbonate deposition characteristic of the Windsor Group.
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3 78-K3 8 45 50 50 e Thickness is approximately 45 m in the type section and comprises approximately 61% evaporite, 29% siltstone and 10% carbonate. ( H01-004(
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5 ( 65 MILLER CREEK FORMATION (E#Wmc) : gypsum and anhydrite, subordinate interstratified red with minor grey-green siltstone and fine-grained sandstone, rare thin salt (e.g. drillhole NSDME RC 85-1 near
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Riverside Corner), and thin but stratigraphically important (regional and local correlation) and lithologically distinctive fossiliferous marine carbonates, and the following sequence of carbonate members
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( Additional geological interpretation and revisions were contributed by S. M. Barr ( Wolfville area), and J. W. F. Waldron 5 ( E#Wmc
a and a siltstone marker bed in descending order: Sanford Limestone, Big Red Siltstone, Chambers Limestone, Belmont Limestone, Mantua Limestone, Fisher Limestone, McCulloch Dolostone. Deposits E#Wmr ! 5 5 E#Hcv (Cheverie area). The geological interpretation for the Walton to Cheverie area should be considered as a work in progress 5 t
5 e
B L^Fw represent the highly cyclic shallow marine evaporite, continental redbed, and marine carbonate deposition characteristic of the Windsor Group. Thickness is approximately 72 m in the type section and
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and subject to revision due to lack of data and subsurface uncertainty. 97 i
! comprises approximately 70% evaporite, 13% siltstone and 17% carbonate.
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5 E#Wm disconformity, locally a structural break (e.g. Kennetcook Thrust/ Dark Quarry Fault Zone)
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o STEWIACKE FORMATION (E#Ws) : thick stratified salt with thin interbeds of anhydrite, and grey-green and red siltstone. The Stewiacke Formation has not been well established in drilling available to date o
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North American Datum (NAD) 1983, CSRS98. L^Fw 8 k and the presence and general distribution are inferred from very limited drilling and partial intersections only. Deposits represent the highly cyclic and most saline marine evaporite, dominated by halite ( ( 15 E#Ws
3 F with minor anhydrite/siliciclastic/carbonate deposition characteristic of the Windsor Group. Thickness in the region is known to locally exceed 300 m. o
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Base and digital data derived from the Nova Scotia Topographic Database (NSTDB). Copyright her Majesty the Queen in Right ( interstratified vertical and lateral gradational interstratified contact with White Quarry Formation inferred, locally a structural break (e.g. Kennetcook Thrust) 96 Ì m of the Province of Nova Scotia. The NSTDB is available from Service Nova Scotia and Municipal Relations (SNSMR), Land ! H01-047 E#Wwq a
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i WHITE QUARRY (Carrolls Corner) FORMATION : thick stratified nodular to massive anhydrite and gypsum with thin interbeds of limestone, dolostone, and rare interbeds and inclusions of halite,
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Fe 16 5
12 95 n variably hydrated to gypsum, locally highly petroliferous. Deposits represent the highly cyclic and least saline marine evaporite, dominated by anhydrite with minor halite/siliciclastic/carbonate deposition ! ( H01-047 ( E#Wwq E#Wm
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H01-003 VER characteristic of the Windsor Group. Thickness known to range from 100 to 300 m
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! 35 O interstratified vertical contact with Macumber Formation, dissolution truncation contact with local Pembroke breccia, contact locally a structural break (e.g. Kennetcook Thrust)
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12 12 80 ! Symbol orientation relative to grid north; approximately 1° E. MACUMBER FORMATION (E#Wm): thin bedded to finely laminated limestone, locally dolomitized and sideritized, light grey to grey brown, pelletal to peloidal fine-grained limestone, variably argillaceous 95 20
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NaCl 60 20 and arenaceous. A thin Schizodous-bearing orthoquartzite occurs beneath the limestone in the type area near Cheverie. Dark calcareous shale may occur at the base or represent a lateral facies equivalent.
10 E#Wm ! 75
H01-034
Locations of mineral occurrences and diamond-drill holes were taken mainly from the Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources 10 70 70 E#Wmr 35 Limestone breccia and conglomerate with variably siliciclastic-rich limestone matrix are locally present near the top of the Macumber Formation in some surface and near surface outcrop areas. These
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LB83-1 to 5 94 (NSDNR) Mineral Occurrence Database and Drillhole Database, respectively. The locations of most, but not all, drillholes were Ì breccias represent tectonic and solution breccias derived from the Macumber Formation (and probably parts of the overlying White Quarry Formation), may include Mesozoic siliciclastics and are referred to
Ì 10 30
! Wolfville 40 20 35 40
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15 E#Wp verified from company assessment information filed with the NSDNR library; in areas of particularly high-density drilling, some of descriptively as the Pembroke breccia ( ). Thickness of the Macumber Formation ranges from 1 to more than 17 m. Deposits represent the initial (rapid/catastrophic) marine carbonate transgression 20
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12 25 Ba 40 E#Hcv
25 deposits of the Windsor Group in an arid sub-sealevel continental basin. Carbonate laminite, described as a relatively deep water cryptalgal/bacteriolaminite, succeeded by progressively saline marine the drillhole locations were not verified. ! 30 35
5 65 H01-046
6 12 LB64-3 to -8, evaporites dominated first by anhydrite followed by halite deposition characteristic of the Windsor Group. Thickness of Pembroke breccia may locally exceed 35 m. 40
10 14 20 35 20 MCB64-10 and several ME45-? 35 18
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15 25 40 gypsum 12 93
H01-022 24 NSDM4080 ! NSDM4077 80
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Î 10 30 80 CHEVERIE FORMATION (E#Hcv) : grey-green to minor maroon sandstone, locally granule to pebbly conglomerate, variably calcareous, immature, arkosic, massive to trough cross-stratified, fine- to coarse- 75 12 20 65
The information on this map may have come from a variety of government and nongovernment sources. The Nova Scotia e E#Hh/m 4
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Ì 75 nc lin grained, interbedded with similar maroon to minor grey-green siltstone and mudrock with rootlets, dessication cracks and pedogenic features. In the upper part, variably calcareous and siliceous quartz 10 75 y Ì !
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Department of Natural Resources does not assume any liability for errors that may occur. This map is intended for use at the 93 Ì e ti 8 6 12 E#Hcv l l n vi A 6 arenite and minor well laminated dark grey micaceous shale are present. Depositional environments include continental alluvial basin (fluvial to alluvial) with highly seasonal to increasingly dry climates. 18 n
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published scale of 1:50 000. Kentville H tile 12 a Thickness ranges from 100 m to 260 m.
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15 HORTON BLUFF FORMATION (E#Hh) : grey to black mudrock including shale, siltstone, grey fine- to coarse-grained sandstone and locally conglomerate, feldspathic to quartzose, minor thin limestone
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! interbeds and nodular limestone. Many previous workers have described (in varying terminology) a three part subdivision comprising: upper and lower sandstone units with a middle mudrock (shale and R
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References 46 50 Î 9
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80 5 38 5 ! E siltstone) unit. Depositional environments include continental alluvial basin lacustrine (with possible marine influence), fluvial-deltaic and floodplain. Total thickness of the Horton Bluff Formation ranges
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10 from 350 m to more than 525 m, and may exceed 1000 m in the central part of the basin. Note: Internal contacts are subdivisions of Ferguson (1983).
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R v Gibling (1996). It comprises the coarse siliciclastic-dominated section at the top of the HBF and includes light-to medium-grey thick sandstone (quartz arenite), medium- to coarse-grained and medium-
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76 Î 10 l Bell, W. A. 1929: Horton-Windsor district, Nova Scotia; Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir 155, 268 p. A ! 30 !! t !
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! 80 ! Walton-Cheverie area, Nova Scotia; Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin 166, 181 p.
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90 ! 5 ! ! md E#Hcv a carbonate mudstone unit, a dark grey/black shale unit, and siltstone/shale unit. Thickness of the middle member of Horton Bluff Formation is estimated to range from 210 m to 350 m.
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88 L&k 82 peraluminous composition and includes granodiorite, monzogranite, leucomonzogranite and leucogranite comprising the following major pluton in the map area: Scrag Lake (biotite monzogranite, biotite ! E#Hh/u !
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80 ! ! s ! 10 80 MAFIC PORPHYRY (L@-mp) : light brown, dark brownish-grey, fine-grained, porphyritic with phenocrysts of quartz, plagioclase, alkali feldspar, biotite (12-20%), trace muscovite, contains abundant xenoliths e Î CAN92-4 L@-mp
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75 5 70 E#Wmc 17 Ì 60 n E#Wwq 35 E#Wpl 27 NEW CANAAN FORMATION (L&n) : interstratified sequence of tuff, basalt, siltstone, breccia, fossiliferous marine limestone, slate, and minor conglomerate; and their contact metamorphic equivalents. Energy, Map 87-7, scale 1:50 000. ! i E#Wws 80 E#Hh/m
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`%Mg u ! Generally poorly exposed in the map area but has been better defined in recent drilling by NSDNR. Deposition occurred as part of subaqueous volcaniclastic marine basin environment. Thickness is S1-119 E#Wmr E#Wws L&n 75 65 o E#Wm 84
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E#Wmr approximately 300 m in the type area. Note: Internal contacts are subdivisions of P. K. Smith (personal communication, 1999). Contains a middle-?late Silurian shell/coral fauna.
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Martel, A. T. 1990: Stratigraphy, fluviolacustrine sedimentology and cyclicity of the Late Devonian/Early Carboniferous Horton 80 e E#Hh/u
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md Î gypsum E#Wpl E#Wws concordant conformable contact G 55 60 H01-031 60 Bluff Formation, Nova Scotia, Canada; Doctor of Philosophy Thesis, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 297 p. 60 6 H01-029 7 ! ! ! ! Ì 20 E#Wmr E#Wws !
E#Wws E#Wws KENTVILLE FORMATION (L&k) : sequence of grey slate and minor volcaniclastics with rare dark limestone; comprises a thin lower section of dark grey, slightly silty, massive slate with light grey arenite
E#Wmr 15 E#Wws 60 Ì 10 84 35 ! Î ! laminae overlain by a variably thick felsite , a thick upper section of dark grey slate, and an uppermost section of greenish-grey poorly laminated slate; and their contact metamorphic equivalents. ! 45 13 L&k Martel, A. T. and Gibling, M. R. 1996: Stratigraphy and tectonic history of the Upper Devonian to Lower Carboniferous S1/122 ! 75 73 !
80 10 Falmouth 25 Deposition occurred as part of an anoxic (late Silurian?) deeper marine shelf environment. Thickness is approximately 490 m in the type area. Contains mid-late Silurian (Ludlow) fauna. S1/123 E#Wmc ! 6
Horton Bluff Formation, Nova Scotia; Atlantic Geology, v. 32, p. 13-38. 60 32 E-L#Mw E#Wmr 30
! Î 5 ! E#Wwq concordant conformable contact ! 75 ! E#Wws E#Wpl E#Wpl 83 55 E#Hh/l E#Wmr E#Wmr 23 35 45 Ì 75 ! E#Wmc 25 5 ! 25 md Moore, R. G. 1986: Geological map of the Mosherville quadrangle, Hants County, Nova Scotia; Nova Scotia Department of ! E#Wmr E#Wpl WHITE ROCK FORMATION (%&w) : interstratified sequence of slate and sudordinate siltstone, quartzite and volcanic rocks; in the type area it is dominated by an upper and lower quartz arenite (orthoquartzite)
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Natural Resources, Mines and Energy Branches, Open File Map 86-045, scale 1:10 000. ! 72 separated by a medial grey slate section and at the base a section of interbedded bioturbated shale, siltstone and quartz arenite; the supermature sandstones are greyish-white, lenticular bedded, massive
`%Mh 80 ! E#Wws lt %&w 55 65 u Î ! E#Hh/u a ! to faintly bedded in packages 15-40 m thick with thin intercalated siltstone at the top; the slate is dark grey, silty, coarsens upward with siltstone; and their contact metamorphic equivalents. Deposition 80 Au F E#Wmr NaCl ! y
83 ! 70 `%Mg 6 rr E#Hh/m E#Wws 80 E#Wm A16-037 A16-001 E#Wws ua occurred as a transgressive-regressive cycle in a shallow marine shelf environment. Thickness approximately 100 m in the type area. Moore, R. G. 1989: Geological map of the Riverside Corner quadrangle, Hants County, Nova Scotia; Nova Scotia Department 50 FAL2 gypsum gypsum Q ! ! Î 14 ! k concordant contact, local/regional disconformity/angular unconformity
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45 82 60 Î ! ! HALIFAX FORMATION (`%Mh) : interstratified sequence of massive to finely laminated dark grey to black slate (lower), red and grey slate (upper), minor medium- to light-grey to green-grey siltstone and
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! 45 75 E#Wmr Î E#Wws 15 40 . minor quartz wacke, rare diamictites; and their contact metamorphic equivalents. Deposition represents a deep marine fan (upper- to mid-fan) mudrock turbidite on prograding continental rise to shelf/slope. Moore, R. G. 1989: Geological map of the Centre Rawdon quadrangle, Hants County, Nova Scotia; Nova Scotia Department of Windsor Quarry `%Mh !
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40 60 ! Î 33 E#Wmc 81 Natural Resources, Mines and Energy Branches, Open File Map 89-004, scale 1:10 000. 5 80 50 concordant conformable contact S1/126 ! 40 ! ! Ì !
> 55 ! 65 GOLDENVILLE FORMATION (`%Mg) : interstratified sequence of greenish-grey greywacke, massive to thickly bedded, poorly stratified; and minor interbedded slate; and their contact metamorphic equivalents. Moore, R. G. 1993: Geological map of the Cheverie-Lower Burlington quadrangle (21H/01), Hants County, Nova Scotia; Nova S1/304 40 45 > E#Wpl ! ! S1/306 45 S1/127 Î S1/301
5 E#Hcv ! Deposition represents a deep marine abyssal plain fan, sand-dominated turbidite adjacent to the deposition area of the mudrock-dominated Halifax Formation on a prograding continental rise to shelf/slope.
E#Wws Scotia Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy Branches, Open File Map 93-001, scale 1:10 000. S1/303 ! 40 40 Î `%Mg 81 l 40 45 13 . sor Gypsum ! S1/302Wind Thickness in the region may exceed 1000 m. Contains sparse late Cambrian to early Ordovician biota. ! a > > Thompsons Stillwaters > 45 ! n > 27
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E#Wws 80 ! a ! gypsum 55 Î > ! Scotia Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy Branches, Open File Map 93-002, scale 1:10 000. d . ** A new lithostratigraphic scheme for early and middle Paleozoic (Cambrian to Devonian) strata in the Meguma Zone has been recently published by Schenk (1995) in the Geological 30 A16-023 a E#Wmr >> ! r > L@-glmg Three Mile Plains E#Wm ! . Society of America, Decade of North American Geology (DNAG) series, Volume F-1 p. 261-277 and 367-383. In summary, two supergroups were identified: (1) Meguma Supergroup as an ! ! >> E#Wmc S1/45 G 80 ! gypsum elevation of the Meguma Group with consequent elevation of former formations (e.g. Goldenville, Halifax) to group status; and (2) the introduction of the Annapolis Supergroup to include Moore, R. G. 1994: Geology of the Walton-Rainy Cove Brook map area (NTS 21H/01- Z2 and Z4), Hants County, Nova Scotia; > E#Wmc ! > ! E#Wwq E#Wm A16-025 ! the elevation of former formation level units including the White Rock, Kentville, New Canaan and Torbrook to form the constituent groups. The early lithostratigraphic scheme for early and Little River ! 4980 Dark Quarry Fault Zone Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy Branches, Open File Map 94-022, scale 1:10 000. 17 > ! Lake> > ! 15 middle Paleozoic (Cambrian to Devonian) strata in the Meguma Zone has been retained for use in this geological map edition until the merits and function of the 1995 Supergroup/Group > ! > E#Wws DH5 E#Hcv E#Wm > > 16
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m m m 73 3 000m 3 4 4 4 000m 82 E 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 E 1 individual member units and marker beds; refer to Ferguson (1983). 49 64°00' Geological contact (approximate or assumed) ...... 64°30' 64°W
A 500 m A' 500 m B 500 m B' 0 m 0 m 0 m
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a d -500 m -500 m n -500 m
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B Salmontail Lake l Gaspereau Lake -1000 m Granodiorite a -1000 m -1000 m n
o Granodiorite i Monzogranite Probably Halifax Formation of the Meguma Group, with possible White Rock, t
da Monzogranite a
r -1500 m Kentville, New Canaan formations at the north end of the cross-section. Salmontail Lake -1500 m -1500 m G Gaspereau Lake Granodiorite/Monzogranite -2000 m -2000 m -2000 m
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