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in the year 191 1. In addition, the Kimberley mine is 

 owned and operated by the Minudie Coal Company. 



No definite correlations have yet been made of the seams 

 worked in these various colleries, although it is probable 

 that some are equivalents of the Hardscrabble and over- 

 lying seams. The dips of the coals increase inland from 

 19° south at the Joggins to 40° south at the old Styles 

 mines, 12 miles (19-3 km.) inland. Beyond this the basin 

 is apparently interrupted by transverse folding and 

 faulting. 



About 6 miles (9-6 km.) south of the Styles area, in the 

 southern limb of the Cumberland synclinorium, there is 

 situated a coal basin known as the Springhill basin, which 

 embraces seams of greater economic importance. Of 

 these, three are worked which are respectively 5 feet 6 

 inches (1-7 m.), 8 feet 4 inches (2-5 m.), and 10 feet 6 

 inches to 4 feet 2 inches (3-2 m. to 1-3 m.) in thickness. 

 The dips vary from 20° to 80° westerly. The precise 

 relation of this basin to that of the Joggins is still one of 

 speculation, although the measures undoubtedly belong 

 to the Joggins formation. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



Dawson, J. W Acadian Geology. 



Fletcher, Hugh A section of the Carboniferous Rocks 



in Cumberland County, N.S., Proc. 



and Trans. Nova Scotian Inst, of Sci., 



Vol. XI, part 3, pp. 417-550, 1908- 

 Logan W. E Geol. Surv. Can., Report of Progress, 



1845. 



ANNOTATED GUIDE. 



MACCAN JUNCTION TO MONCTON. 



(G. A. Young.) 



Miles and 

 Kilometres. 



cm. Maccan Junction — Alt. 31 ft. (9-4 m.). 



o km. From Maccan Junction the Intercolonial railway 



runs northward following for some distance 

 the eastern side of Maccan river. About | 



