scholarly journals The West Moose River anorthosites, Avalon Zone, Nova Scotia

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
G Pe-Piper ◽  
G Dessureau
Keyword(s):  
Nova Scotia ◽  
The West ◽  
Moose River

Lower Cambrian (Branchian) trilobites and biostratigraphy of the Hanford Brook Formation, southern New Brunswick

2000 ◽  
Vol 74 (5) ◽  
pp. 858-878 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen R. Westrop ◽  
Ed Landing
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Nova Scotia ◽  
North America ◽  
New Brunswick ◽  
Lower Cambrian ◽  
Early Cambrian ◽  
The West ◽  
Middle Cambrian ◽  
Sequence Stratigraphic ◽  
Two New Species

The Hanford Brook Formation, one of the classic Cambrian units of Avalonian North America, contains at least eight species of endemic trilobites, including Berabichia milleri Westrop n. sp., that are assigned to seven genera. The vertical succession of faunas is far more complex than has been recognized previously, with each member containing a lithofacies-specific assemblage. These are, in ascending order: a bradoriid-linguloid Association without trilobites in the nearshore St. Martin's Member, a Protolenus Association in dysaerobic siltstones and sandstones of the Somerset Street Member, and a Kingaspidoides-Berabichia Association in hummocky cross-stratified sandstones of the Long Island Member that overlie a parasequence boundary at Hanford Brook. Due to the breakdown of biogeographic barriers in the late Early Cambrian, two new species-based zones, the Protolenus elegans and Kingaspidoides cf. obliquoculatus zones, share trilobite genera with the Tissafinian Stage of Morocco. This generic similarity has been the basis for correlation of this upper Lower Cambrian interval on the Avalon continent with the West Gondwanan lowest Middle Cambrian. However, the clear facies control on the occurrence of genera in the Hanford Brook Formation and the presence of an abrupt faunal break and unconformity at the base of the Tissafinian in Morocco makes this correlation questionable. The Hanford Brook Formation may represent a late Early Cambrian interval unknown in Gondwana. Sequence-stratigraphic criteria even raise the possibility that the Protolenus Association is the biofacies equivalent of Callavia broeggeri Zone faunas of the Brigus Formation of Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and Massachusetts.

scholarly journals A Significant Range Extension for the Eastern Ribbonsnake, Thamnophis sauritus, in Nova Scotia, Canada

2013 ◽  
Vol 126 (3) ◽  
pp. 231
Author(s):  
John Gilhen ◽  
Alice Jones ◽  
Jeffie McNeil ◽  
Arthur W. Tanner
Keyword(s):  
Nova Scotia ◽  
Range Extension ◽  
The West ◽  
River Watershed ◽  
New Localities

In Nova Scotia the threatened Northern Ribbonsnake, Thamnophis sauritus septentrionalis, (the northern subspecies of the Eastern Ribbonsnake, T. sauritus) (Crother 2008) is known from localities in only Queens and Lunenburg counties, where it was first discovered in 1950. Many new localities, mostly in the headwaters of the Mersey River and the Medway River watersheds have been added since 2002, and Seven Mile Lake (in the West La Have River watershed) was added to the distribution in 2005. We add two localities to the distribution of the Northern Ribbonsnake in the previously unreported Petite Rivière watershed, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia.

Province of Nova Scotia, Halifax County, Moose River Sheet, No 50

1898 ◽  
Author(s):  
E R Faribault
Keyword(s):  
Nova Scotia ◽  
Moose River

Seasonal Distribution of Cod (Gadus morhua L.) Along the Canadian Atlantic Coast in Relation to Water Temperature

1964 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 429-460 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yves Jean
Keyword(s):  
Nova Scotia ◽  
Dominant Species ◽  
Gadus Morhua ◽  
Seasonal Pattern ◽  
Atlantic Coast ◽  
Seasonal Distribution ◽  
Western Slope ◽  
Middle Ground ◽  
Bottom Temperature ◽  
The West

Seasonal relationships between size, bottom temperature, and distribution of cod are described for the western Gulf of St. Lawrence and Nova Scotia Banks.In summer, in the western Gulf of St. Lawrence, cod are distributed from 35 to 145 m at bottom temperatures from −0° to 6 °C. They are most abundant at about 100 m where the temperature is around 1 °C. In winter they are concentrated in 130–180 m along the western slope of the Laurentian Channel at bottom temperatures from 1° to 3 °C.On the Nova Scotia Banks cod are less abundant than in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. They are found mainly around Banquereau, Middle Ground, and the northern edges of Sable Island Bank. Further to the west cod are replaced by haddock as the dominant species. Nova Scotia Banks cod are found in shallower and warmer waters than Gulf cod, both in summer and winter. In summer they are present from 65 to 110 m at bottom temperatures varying from about 1° to 8 °C. In winter they are taken primarily at 90–135 m at bottom temperatures from 2° to 4 °C.Area and depth distributions of commercial catches reflect the seasonal pattern of cod migrations and distributions demonstrated in surveys and tagging studies.

scholarly journals Borehole geophysical logs in Meguma gold occurrences, Nova Scotia (Beaver Dam, Moose River and Lake Charlotte areas)

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
P G Killeen ◽  
B E Elliott ◽  
C N Aoki
Keyword(s):  
Nova Scotia ◽  
Beaver Dam ◽  
Geophysical Logs ◽  
Moose River

Tungsten Deposits of Moose River, Nova Scotia

1910 ◽  
Author(s):  
E R Faribault
Keyword(s):  
Nova Scotia ◽  
Tungsten Deposits ◽  
Moose River

Moose River, Pictou and Guysborough counties, Nova Scotia

1939 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Nova Scotia ◽  
Moose River

British Travellers, Nova Scotia’s Black Communities and the Problem of Freedom to 1860

2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey L. McNairn
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Nova Scotia ◽  
British Empire ◽  
West Indies ◽  
African Descent ◽  
Black Communities ◽  
The West ◽  
Material Conditions

Abstract British travellers commented frequently on those of African descent they encountered in colonial Nova Scotia, especially their material conditions and prospects. Those who published accounts at the peak of the campaign to abolish slavery in the British Empire intervened directly in debates about whether former slaves would prosper under conditions of colonial freedom. They cast themselves as objective imperial observers and Nova Scotia’s black communities as experiments in free labour. Attending to how most crafted and reworked their observations to argue against emancipation in the West Indies situates Nova Scotia and travel texts in intellectual histories of the production of colonial knowledge, debates about slavery, and the nature of nineteenth-century liberalism.

Paleolatitude and Tectonic Rotations of the Early Carboniferous Fountain Lake Group, Cobequid Highlands, Nova Scotia, Canada

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Brooks ◽  
Phil J.A. McCausland ◽  
John W.F. Waldron
Keyword(s):  
Nova Scotia ◽  
Early Carboniferous ◽  
Strike Slip ◽  
Block Rotation ◽  
Beam Analysis ◽  
Recent Origin ◽  
Stable Characteristic ◽  
Dextral Strike Slip ◽  
Slip Motion ◽  
Moose River

The ca. 355 Ma Fountain Lake Group, in the Cobequid Highlands of Nova Scotia, is part of the transtensional basin fill which formed during dextral strike-slip motion between Avalonia and the Meguma terranes following the Acadian Orogeny. Paleomagnetic analysis of the Fountain Lake Group offers a paleolatitude estimate for the Laurentian accretionary margin in the Early Carboniferous and locality-specific paleomagnetic directions which indicate clockwise-sense block rotations during dextral strike-slip motion along the Cobequid Fault zone. Stepwise demagnetization of 142 specimens from 20 sites in three Fountain Lake Group localities across the Cobequid Highlands (Squally Point, West Moose River, and Wentworth exposures) reveals remanence consisting of an easily removed component of probable recent origin, and more persistent components carried by magnetite and hematite, which in petrographic and electron beam analysis appear to be of primary igneous and volcanic oxidation origins, respectively. Sites from all three localities carry stable characteristic remanent magnetization (ChRM) directions that assume similar moderate downward inclinations when tilt-corrected. A Block Rotation Fisher analysis inclination-only fold test demonstrated best agreement at 90% unfolding, showing that remanence acquisition pre-dates Alleghenian deformation in the Late Carboniferous and is most likely of primary 355 Ma age. Paleomagnetic results for the Squally Point, West Moose River and Wentworth localities show relative rotations between the blocks that are variously clockwise-rotated compared with a Laurentia cratonic reference frame. Inclinations at all three localities imply a subtropics paleolatitude for the margin (at Squally Point, 27.2° ± 9.4°; N= 7 sites), directly supporting the depicted location of Laurentia and its Appalachian accretionary margin in most Devonian to Early Carboniferous reconstructions.

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