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NSDNR, MRB, Nova Scotia Minerals Update, V. 22, No. 3 Volume 22, no. 3 Summer 2005 Inverness to Host First Atlantic In This Issue Stone Carving Symposium Inverness to Host First Atlantic Stone This summer, eight Canadian artists Visitors to the event can witness the de- Carving Symposium will participate in the first stone velopment of a stone sculpture from start carving symposium in Atlantic Can- to finish. The carvers will be set up in a Fundy Geological Museum Greets ada. Over a two week period from beautiful location in Inverness, adjacent to 250,000th Visitor August 28th to September 10th, the the new building of the Inverness County public will have a chance to look Centre for the Arts, overlooking the ocean Scenes of Geological Interest over the shoulders of artists while and just an hour’s drive from the quarry. they create unique sculptures out of Stone carving symposia originated in Prospectors Examine Marble and Skarn in Canadian marble. All artists will 1959 in Austria. Since then they have be- Cape Breton carve marble that has been extracted come important cultural events in Europe From the Mineral Inventory Files from a new quarry on Cape Breton and Asia and are established as re- Island owned by MacLeod Re- occurring showcases for contemporary art April - June Open Assessment Reports sources. The company markets a va- in connection with specific local resources. riety of intensely coloured and richly Symposia in locations like Carrara, Italy, A New Policy Governing Marble veined marble that is being exported the Mecca of stone sculpture, attract thou- as far as Italy, where it competes sands of visitors and are prestigious events Joggins: World Heritage Initiative Gains with the world’s finest marble. for the invited artists. Steam The Prospector’s Stake We Heard From You! Special Note/Dates to Remember Comments or questions? Please contact: Doug MacDonald Editor, Nova Scotia Minerals Update Mineral Resources Branch P.O. Box 698, Halifax Nova Scotia, Canada B3J 2T9 Phone 902-424-2510 E-mail [email protected] Link to a full-colour .pdf: http://www.gov.ns.ca/natr/meb/pdf/mu.htm Photo of the MacLeod Resources quarry near River Denys, Inverness County. Nova Scotia Minerals Update Summer 2005 Vanessa Paschakarnis, artist and Enterprise Cape Breton Corporation have Professor of Sculpture at Southern been working to realize an event that will Methodist University’s Meadows help root this long tradition of stone sculp- School of the Arts in Dallas, TX, is the ture symposia on Canadian soil. This will organizer of this event. She grew up in be the first event of its kind in Atlantic Germany and after immigrating to At- Canada, and one of very few such events in lantic Canada she started to spend North America. months at a time in Italy to devote her The finished sculptures will be exhib- time to carving stone. After visiting the ited at the new Inverness County Centre MacLeod Quarry in River Denys in its for the Arts in Inverness and will then beginning stages she convinced Christo- travel for the period of one year to the pher Trider, President and founder, to main sponsors of the event. They will be host a symposium with his beautiful available for sale afterwards. Make a plan stone right there – in Cape Breton. to visit Inverness in the late summer. Don’t For two years a group of dedicated ness, Strait-Highlands Regional Devel- miss this opportunity to see one of Nova people connected to the Inverness opment Agency, Nova Scotia Tourism, Scotia’s mineral resources turned into County Centre for the Arts, the Cape Culture and Heritage, the Nova Scotia beautiful works of art! Breton Centre for Craft and Design, the Department of Natural Resources, the Municipality of the County of Inver- Office of Economic Development and Mike MacDonald Fundy Geological Museum Greets 250,000th Visitor On 2 July 2005, the Fundy Geological hibits, talks, guided walks and work- and mineral occurrences. Some of the Museum in Parrsboro, Cumberland shops, as well as the commercial ex- walks include: County, welcomed its 250,000th visi- hibits of minerals, gems, fossils and ● Five Islands Provincial Park, August tor. This is the museum’s twelfth year lapidary supplies. This event is fun and 27. Cliffs at the park tell a story of Tri- of operation and the 2005 summer sea- educational for the whole family. assic sand dunes and Jurassic lava son is showing promise to be busier The preparation of fossil material flows during the age of the dinosaurs. than usual. collected during “Prosauropod Dino- ● Red Rocks - McGahey Brook, August After a lull in the Elderhostel saur Dig 2004” will continue through- 28. The Cobequid-Chedabucto Fault “Geological Safari” over the past two out the summer. Financial assistance Zone, which extends across Nova Sco- summers, the program has thrived this for the dig was obtained from Heritage tia (see article on page 3), marks the year. Twenty-seven participants at- Canada, through the Young Canada collision of the ancient North America tended the June session, starting in Works in Heritage Institutions pro- with an ancient African continent 400 Halifax and traveling to a number of gram. Human Resources and Skills million years ago. The spectacular local attractions and geological sec- Development Canada provided funding folds and faults exposed along the tions throughout northwestern Nova for three students to assist Lab Man- shore between Red Rocks and McGa- Scotia. A similar trip for early Septem- aged Kathy Goodwin in the paleontol- hey Brook, in Cape Chignecto Provin- ber is fully enrolled already. The ogy work. For more information on cial Park, record the birth of the super Elderhostel program helps the museum “Project Prosauropod” access the pro- continent Pangea. develop regional partnerships. ject’s web site (http://www.museum. The new Geological Highway Map of Staff members and volunteers are gov.ns.ca/fgm/lab/lab.html). the Province of Nova Scotia is an invalu- currently preparing for the 40th Anni- Another popular program this sum- able resource, and a “must-buy” for many versary of the Nova Scotia Gem and mer is the series of Fundy Geological museum visitors. With 250,000 visitors Mineral Show, formerly known as the Museum Curatorial Field Trips. This through the doors, the museum has pro- Rockhound Roundup, from August 19- series of interpretive walks in July and vided geological information to the public, 21. This year the event is dedicated to August will help you discover the as well as research and curatorial programs Marilyn Smith, who passed away in areas’s rich geological and natural his- for professionals. For more information on November 2004. Marilyn helped co- tory. The tours generally depart from the Fundy Geological Museum and its pro- ordinate the Gem and Mineral Show the museum and last from three to six grams, please access the museum’s website during its early years and, as museum hours. The Parrsboro area has an ex- (http://fundygeo.museum.gov.ns.ca) or call Education Officer, fostered its growth ceptional number of features related to 1-866-865-DINO. over the last twelve years. This year’s glaciation, Acadian dykes, wetlands event will feature demonstrations, ex- and tidal marshes, bedrock exposures Ken Adams, Museum Director Page 2 Nova Scotia Minerals Update Summer 2005 Scenes of Geological Interest The Cobequid Fault at Parrsboro, Nova Scotia The Cobequid Fault, shown above, is a a local zone of movement, but the years ago the CCFZ became one of the major topographic expression in the Cobequid Fault is an important rifts that began to widen, splitting up the western part of northern Nova Scotia structure with two branches, which super-continent Pangea. The rift stopped as well as an important geological have greatly influenced Nova Scotia’s opening and, therefore, southern Nova boundary. The image was taken north geological history. The east-west Scotia is still attached without an ocean of Parrsboro at Kirkhill above branch joins the Chedabucto Fault in between it and northern Nova Scotia. Highway 209 to Advocate Harbour. the vicinity of Lansdowne (Pictou Knowing the significance of the Greville Bay, with its excellent County). From there the Chedabucto Cobequid Fault is a matter of scale. exposures of the fault, is visible at the Fault can be traced eastward past Understanding small areas on either side upper left. Canso to the edge of the continental of the CCFZ did not allow geologists to A pronounced scarp marks the shelf. The other branch goes appreciate the importance of this linear trace of the fault because the northeastward from the Mount Thom boundary. Only when large scale rocks on either side have different area to form the northern boundary of differences were defined, such as fossil susceptibilities to weathering. The the Stellarton Basin where significant realms and the mineralogy of granites, harder rocks, which are also older, lie amounts of coal have been mined. did the importance of the fault become to the north of the fault (to the right of The east-west fault system is called known. Now we know that the Cobequid the scarp on the image). Rocks to the the Cobequid–Chedabucto Fault Zone Fault is only a small part of the major north are interpreted to belong to the (CCFZ). Movement on the CCFZ is east-west boundary between the Avalon Early Carboniferous Horton Group. certainly more than 1000 km between Terrane to the north and Meguma Those to the south are younger and are 440 and 60 million years ago. There Terrane to the south. Late Carboniferous in age. appears to have been little movement It may be hard to imagine that this after 60 million years ago.
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