| Title | Windsor group salt in the Cumberland Subbasin of Nova Scotia |
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| Licence | Please note the adoption of the Open Government Licence - Canada
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| Author | Howie, R D |
| Source | Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 85-11, 1986, 12 pages (1 sheet), https://doi.org/10.4095/120616  Open Access |
| Year | 1986 |
| Document | serial |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | paper; on-line; digital |
| File format | pdf |
| Province | Nova Scotia |
| NTS | 11E/11NW; 11E/11SW; 11E/12; 11E/13; 11E/14NW; 11E/14SW; 21H/09NE; 21H/09SE; 21H/16NE; 21H/16SE |
| Area | Pugwash Area |
| Lat/Long WENS | -64.2500 -63.2500 46.0000 45.5000 |
| Subjects | sedimentology; stratigraphy; industrial minerals; salt; mines; boreholes; evaporites; conglomerates; shales; limestones; sandstones; faults; Windsor Group; Pugwash Mine; Cumberland Subbasin;
Paleozoic |
| Illustrations | location maps; geological sketch maps; cross-sections; photographs |
| Released | 1986 07 01; 2016 02 02 |
| Abstract | The Paleozoic fold belt of Atlantic Canada forms the northeastern part of the Appalachian Mountains. Within this fold belt, the Windsor Group includes the only marine rocks of Late Paleozoic age in
southeastern Canada. The Windsor Group evaporites, which are preserved on land in outliers or as part of the northeastern trending basin beneath the Gulf of St. Lawrence, form part of a much larger depositional area, the Magdalen Basin. Based on
present structural trends, the Magdalen Basin has been divided into a number of subbasins. The Cumberland subbasin is one of these. The Cumberland subbasin contains thick deposits of Upper Paleozoic rocks. Adjustments within the basement and uplift
of the Cobequid basement block to the south, have folded the Carboniferous rocks in the subbasin into the east-northeast trending, salt-cored Malagash and Minudie anticlines and a few local structures. Massive salt accumulations occur as flow
structures that are generally overturned to the north. The salt migration is considered to be the result of halokinesis and halotectonism associated with the Maritime Disturbance. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 120616 |
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