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^ometres Conglomerate band, within the area of the Pro- 

 ductive Coal Measures of the Pictou field. 



41-5 m. New Glasgow — Alt. 29 ft. (8-8 m.). The 



66-8 km. railway route between New Glasgow and Truro 

 is described on pages 222 to 229. 



84-4 m. Truro — Alt. 60 ft. (18-3 m.). From Truro 



135-8 km. the Intercolonial railway runs westerly through 

 the Triassic area extending along the north 

 side of the Bay of Minas. The country under- 

 lain by the Triassic is low and rises very 

 gradually from the shore of the Bay of Minas. 

 The northern boundary of this area lies at a 

 variable distance, in most places between i and 2 

 miles (i -6 km. and 3-2 m.), north of the railway 

 and is marked by the abruptly rising front of an 

 upland which merges farther inland, into the 

 Cobequid hills. 



The hilly district bordering the Triassic area 

 on the north is in part underlain by measures 

 of the Riversdale-Union group lying with steep 

 angles of dip in a series of east-west folds. The 

 Triassic strata are mainly red conglomerates 

 and sandstones, which are in general, horizontal 

 or dip at low angles except along the northern 

 border where the strata are usually inclined at 

 angles of 30° to 45°. 



91-9 m. Belmont Station Alt. 84 ft. (25-6 m.). 



147-9 km. 



97-8 m. East Minas Station— Alt. 193 ft. (58-8 m.). 



157-4 km. In "this district the Triassic area extends 

 inland for from 5 to 6 miles (8 to 9-6 km.). 

 To the westward, the band of Triassic strata 

 continues for many miles along the coast of the 

 Bay of Minas and in places the sediments are 

 associated with diabase or basalt. The igneous 

 rock in general occurs in large sheet-like bodies 

 overlying the sediments; in some cases, at 

 least, the masses are dyke-like or are sills. 



At East Minas station, the northern boundary 

 of the Triassic sediments lies about i mile 

 (i-6 km.) north of the railway and there the 

 Triassic is in contact with strata mapped as 

 Carboniferous Conglomerate (lowest Carboni- 

 ferous) by Fletcher. This area of the "Car- 



