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Geology Matters 2013 A Geoheritage List for John Calder and Jeff Poole (902 471 2854;[email protected] )

The List to date The Geoheritage Sites List A thoughtful geoheritage strategy presents opportunities for the three “E’s”: engagement, education and economic development. GH1 Sites: GH3 Sites: Cultural Globally unique (continued) Geoheritage Sites

New Glasgow Highland Mall Springhill Miners Museum Joggins Fossil Cliffs UNESCO World The heart of Nova Scotia’s geoheritage strategy is the list of geoheritage sites, Heritage Site Monks Head Cape Breton Miners Museum, open for nominations and vetted by scientific peers. Nova Scotia has an exceptional record of Earth history and deep cultural Blue Beach Kelly's Mt. Quarry face Londonderry Brule Squally Point & Spicers Cove Malagash Salt Miners Museum It is important that sites on the list represent exceptional examples of geology in roots that present us with opportunities - and obligations - as stewards of Burntcoat Head Rams Head Inverness Miners Museum Experts Bay of Fundy tidal system Port Hood King Seaman Museum order to instill a sense of value to the designation. this rich geoheritage. GH 3. 1.5 billion year old Blair River rocks, Bras D'Or Lakes Mabou Mines Moose River Miners Museum oldest in Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Highlands. Sable Island National Park Inverness Museum of Industry on the ground Geotourism itineraries linking exceptional geoheritage sites that meet standards Chimney Corner Goldenville Gold Mining Museum & Interpretive Centre of safety and integrity are now being developed in collaboration with the Nova Port Morien GH2 Sites: Point Aconi Scotia Tourism Agency. Londonderry Globally Smith's Pt. Lower Cove Cape John Partnership opportunities in geoheritage are many, and include: Parks , significant Wallace Sandstone Blomidon Picnic Park Wallace Museum Nova Scotia Provincial Parks, regional development agencies, municipalities and Cape Split Aspy Fault Escarpment Cap d'Or Carrs Brook private operators. High Head Oliver Copper Mine Ross Creek Cobequid Fault Cape North Margaretsville The evolving list can be viewed, and new sites nominated, at Cape Chignecto St. Croix Prim Point West Bay The Ovens http://www.gov.ns.ca/natr/meb/geoheritage_resources/geoheritage_list.asp Rossway Sydney Mines Mooseland Tiverton Point Aconi Malagash Brier Island (West Light, North Light) Cape John Cornish Pump House GH 2.The Aspy Fault terrane boundary, viewed Evangeline Beach GH 2. Tectonic wonderland, Clarke Head. GH 3. Neoproterozoic igneous rocks thrust Clarke Head Annapolis Iron Mining Co.,Clementsport from Cabot Landing Provincial Park. Shaw Pit over Devonian volcanics, Grande Falaise. Cape Split Walton Cape Chignecto Carrs Brook Ecum Secum Lawrencetown area (Halifax Co.) Old Wife, Five Islands Provincial Park Clam Harbour Wasson Bluff Parrsboro Gap-Lakelands Gesner Monument , Chipman Corner Mabou Harbour till sequence Prospect/Peggys Cove Crystal Cliffs Tantramar Marshes Point Pleasant Park Joggins Rocking Stone, Kidston Lake Levels of Significance Moose River Gold Mines Clam Harbour Beach GH3 Sites: Springhill Miners Memorial Tobeatic Eskers Exceptional Stellarton Miners Memorial Head of Saint Marys Bay Opportunities Glace Bay Miners Memorial examples Salmon River Reserve Mines Memorial Park Cabot Landing Provincial Park Westray Memorial Park on the ground lighthouse Glen Tosh Dominion Miners Memorial Cap Rouge Amherst Head Bird Sanctuary New Waterford Miners Memorial Grande Falaise Clyburn Valley Trail New Waterford, Colliery Lands Park Le Buttereau Bass Creek Sydney Mines Miners Memorial GH 1+2: Location of world’s highest tides and GH 3. Granite emplacement, MacKinnons MacKenzie River lookoff Kingston dune fields Port Hood Beach Park GH 1. Globally unique: Joggins Fossil Cliffs, rich Triassic vertebrate locality, Burntcoat Head. Cove. Lakies Head lookoff Pomquet Beach deGaarthe stone carving, Peggy's Cove UNESCO World Heritage Site. MacKinnon Cove Lawrencetown Beach Taylor Head Waterloo Lake (Sacred Mi’kmaw sites Tancook Island Shubenacadie River await consultation) Georgeville Chezzetcook salt marsh Halifax Gp roadcuts Cheverie Goldenville Gp roadcuts Kelly Mt. lookoff Cape St. Mary St. Anns lookoff Who Came Up The Ovens Peat bogs (Province-wide) With This List? Wine Harbour Blomidon lookoff Blue Rocks East Kemptville Natural Resources Arisaig Marble Mt. Village has taken the lead Cape Fourchu Mica Hill in developing a Peggys Cove The Ovens Natural Park Geoheritage Prospect, Chebucto Head, Crystal GH 2. Globally significant: flood basalts of Crescent Garnet sands, Sandy Pt Lighthouse strategy for Nova Pangea’s breakup at the Triassic-Jurassic GH 2: Neoproterozoic trace fossil lägerstatten, Foote Cove Scotia, but the input High Head. GH 3. Exhumed granite batholith, Peggys Cove. GH 1. Sable Island. Keji Seaside Adjunct boundary, Five Islands Provincial Park. Weekend Dykes, Popes Harbour Morden of members of the Cape Chignecto Frenchvale geoscience Rainy Cove Doughboy Point community has Mineral Resources Shelburne Dyke Pogue Lake been key, through Victoria Park Sibley Mountain specific nominations, Branch Beulach Ban Falls Tennycape and publications such Map of Geoheritage Sites Cape Dauphin Copper Lake as the Geological Image credits: Kennetcook River Halls Harbour Highway Map of Nova a web-accessible and searchable map Scots Bay Scotiaand Nova Joggins: Wally Hayes, NSTA Newport Landing Dewar Hill Quarry Harbourville Scotia Rocks (both High Head: Chris White, NSDNR http://www.gov.ns.ca/natr/meb/geoheritage_resources AGS). GH 3. Silurian volcanism, Cape Fourchu. Cape Fourchu: NSTA /geoheritage_list.asp GH 3. Exceptional example of geology: All others: John Calder, NSDNR exhumed granite batholith reshaped by glacial erosion, Peggys Cove. Open File Illustration ME 2013-013