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13. Poole, H. S. Geol. Surv. Can., Vol. XIV, 1905, 



part M, p. II. 



ANNOTATED GUIDE 



NEW GLASGOW TO SYDNEY. 



(G. A. Young.) 



Miles and 

 Kilometres. 



o m. New Glasgow — Alt. 29 ft. (8-8 m.). Leaving 



o km. New Glasgow the Intercolonial railway crosses 



in a northward direction, the band of New 

 Glasgow Conglomerate and enters the area of 

 so-called Permian strata that stretches westward 

 for about 75 miles (120 km.) along the shores of 

 Northumberland strait. At a distance of about 

 7 miles (11 -2 km.) from New Glasgow, the rail- 

 way recrosses the band-like area of New Glasgow 

 Conglomerate and enters the eastern extension 

 of the Carboniferous area containing the Pictou 

 coal field. 



The Carboniferous strata of the area traversed 

 by the railway belong almost entirely to the 

 Millstone Grit. The measures are mainly 

 reddish and greyish shales and sandstones with 

 occasional beds of limestone and are folded and 

 faulted. The Carboniferous area is low and 

 rolling, and forms a narrow strip of country, 3 to 

 4 miles (5 to 6-5 km.) wide, extending from the 

 sea and bounded on the south by a high rugged 

 area having a general altitude of about 1,000 

 feet (300 m.). This upland rises abruptly from 

 the Carboniferous area and is underlain by Sil- 

 urian and older strata (Ordovician ?) with 

 which are associated bodies of intrusive and 

 extrusive igneous rocks. The strata lie in a 

 highly disturbed condition and, especially in 

 the case of the pre-Silurian measures, are in 

 many places schistose or otherwise metamor- 

 phosed. 



