. Transactions. lle formation, with its sandstones,grits, and conglomerates, underlie unformably, and in its regular andnormal position, the shales and productive coal seams and associatedstrata of the Stellarton formation. The block of Westville and Stellar- Possible Occurrence of a Coal Area, Pictou County. 361 ton strata, thus represented in Figure B, though .liagrammatical, never-theless shows the relations which these two district geological forma-tions bear to each other in various portions of the Pictou coal basin,south of the north fault, and which may possibly obtain north of thesame
. Transactions. lle formation, with its sandstones,grits, and conglomerates, underlie unformably, and in its regular andnormal position, the shales and productive coal seams and associatedstrata of the Stellarton formation. The block of Westville and Stellar- Possible Occurrence of a Coal Area, Pictou County. 361 ton strata, thus represented in Figure B, though .liagrammatical, never-theless shows the relations which these two district geological forma-tions bear to each other in various portions of the Pictou coal basin,south of the north fault, and which may possibly obtain north of thesame fault in the area in question and discussed in this brief paper. Supposing, now, as is the case in the outcrop of the strata of theVVestville (or millstone grit) formation at Blackwood brook, that itsstrata dip at an angle of 60 degrees towards the north, presenting theupper edges of the strata in an eroded condition, then, in the event ofthe succession of the carboniferous strata, these being normal and KiG. WESTVILLE Formation or Millstone Grit. STELLARTON Formation or Coal Measures. regularly without the intervention of a fault (of which there is no evi-dence whatever), it is reasonable to suspect—-provided the uncon-formity prevails for a considerable distance north of the north fault,in the direction of the mouth of the East river of Pictou or of Pictoutown—that the newer and higher stratas constituting the Stellartonformation, or productive coal measures, will be found overlying thesandstones of the Westville formation exposed on Blackwood brooksomewhere to the north, and the contact between these two formationswould be somewhere between the latitude of Pictou town and ihat ofBlackwood brook. The contact of the two formations—if it exist atall—is hidden by the overlying strata of the NewOlasgow conglomerateformation, and the various geological horizons or formations whichoverlie the New Glasgow formation perfectly conformably, up to themeasures of the overlyin
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