GEOLOGY AND SCENERY OF NORTHEAST COAST 89 
The little map is intended to show that there is definite 
trend to the rocks of the Basement Complex, and that this 
trend has a remarkable parallelism with the present north- 
east coast of the peninsula. That is, the edges of the worn- 
down, folded schists and other rocks, like the axes of the 
folds, run parallel to the general shore-line. It looks as if 
this part of the Basement Complex were originally built 
up by mighty earth-forces acting in a northeast-southwest 
direction and raising a distinct and lofty mountain-chain 
on the line of the present coast. Further exploration is 
necessary before the conclusion can be considered as final, 
but Dr. Bell’s discovery in the Baffin Land Archean of 
what would appear to be the continuation of the same 
“Labrador trend” (thus extending more than 1300 miles) 
lends force to the idea. 
In Figure 13, heavy black lines diagrammatically repre- 
sent the “‘ Labrador trend,” and others represent the various 
elements in both relief and rock-structure which belong to 
the great Appalachian mountain-system. The two trends 
meet at the Strait of Belle Isle. The “Labrador trend” 
locates one of the most ancient (Pre-Cambrian) mountain- 
ranges of America; the Appalachian trend characterizes 
the much younger (Post-Carboniferous) system that in- 
cludes the Alleghanies, the Blue Ridge, the White Moun- 
tains, the Green Mountains, and the lower ranges of New 
Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland. Where so 
little has been done in the field, one must hold but loosely 
to the idea of a definite law of structure in Canada’s most 
difficult terrane, but it is believed to be a fair and just, 
perhaps helpful, working hypothesis to govern further 
exploration. 
