VI. NOTES ox THE SUPERFICIAL GEOLOGY OF KINGS Co., N. S. 

 BY PROF. A. E. COLDWELL, M. A., Acadia College, 

 Wolfville, N. S. 



(Read 13th January, 1896.) 



Kings County has an average length and breadth of 35 by 

 25 miles, but within this somewhat limited area there is very 

 much to interest the student of geological phenomena. 



Facing the Bay of Fundy on the northern side, and protect- 

 ing the rest of the county from the chilling fogs, somewhat too 

 prevalent in that arm of the Atlantic, stretches the noted trap 

 ridge, known as North Mountain. This extends eastward from 

 the Annapolis boundary to the famous Cape Blomidon, where it 

 takes a northerly direction, then doubling on itself stretches 

 westward till it terminates in the rugged but picturesque cliffs 

 of Cape Split. The length of this ridge in the county is fully 

 45 miles, and it can be traced under the waters of Minas 

 Channel for a long distance, making the rips off Cape Split and 

 also those off Cape d'Or on the Cumberland side of the Channel. 

 On the south of this mountain lies a valley with an average 

 width of about 6| miles. The surface rock here is Triassic 

 sandstone underlying the trap at their junction, as is well seen 

 at Cape Blomidon. This valley is drained by four rivers, the 

 Pereaux, Habitant, Canard and Cornwallis, flowing eastward 

 into Minas Basin, and having at their mouths large alluvial 

 deposits composed of the comminuted sandstone and trap 

 deposited daily by the tides. On the Canard river alone 2500 

 acres of this have been reclaimed, making most valuable hay-land. 

 On the south of this valley, and generally parallel to the North 

 Mountain runs the South Mountain range. At Gaspereau Lake 

 this subdivides making the narrow valley of the Gaspereau 

 River. The spur or offshoot of the South Mountain has its 

 greatest altitude in Canaan, whence with a gradual descent it 

 runs in the rear of Wolfville, and terminates at Horton Landing. 



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