Mineral Resources Branch Report of Activities 2010

Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources
Mineral Resources Branch
Report ME 2011-1

Edited by D. R. MacDonald and K. A. Mills

Table of Contents

• Cover and Table of Contents
• Mineral Resources Branch Activities
  • Recent Investigations of the Stratigraphy and Paleontology of Devono-Carboniferous Successions in Mainland Nova Scotia - J. H. Calder, R. J. Ryan, T. G. MacHattie, S. G. Lucas, A. MacRae, C. Mansky and M. Stimson
  • 2010 Report on the Central Antigonish County Land-use Planning and Climate Change Adaptation Project - G. J. DeMont and D. J. Utting
  • Carbon¹⁴ Dating of Intertidal Tree Stumps, Roots, Peat and Shells on the Outer Islands of Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia - P. W. Finck
  • An Assessment of Coastal Erosion at the Malagawatch Graveyard Archeological Site - P. W. Finck
  • Coastal Hazard Assessment Along the Blue Beach Fossil Cliffs, Kings County - P. W. Finck and D. J. Utting
  • Digital Information Services Activities in 2010 - B. E. Fisher, J. C. Poole, J. S. Saunders, J. S. McKinnon, A. L. Ehler and N. A. Lyttle
  • Activities of the Hydrogeology Program, 2010 - G. W. Kennedy
  • Field Data Acquisition Using Ganfeld NSDNR - D. F. Keppie
  • Proposal for GPS Monitoring Stations in Yarmouth and North Sydney - D. F. Keppie
  • Five Preliminary Hypotheses for New Mapping in the Windsor-Kennetcook Basin, Central Nova Scotia - D. F. Keppie
  • Geoscience Editing and Publishing - D. R. MacDonald, B. L. MacDonald, K. A. Mills and J. S. Saunders
  • Nature and Setting of Late Devonian-Early Carboniferous Rare Earth Element Mineralization in the Eastern Cobequid Highlands, Nova Scotia - T. G. MacHattie
  • Mineral Exploration Activity in Nova Scotia, 2010 - P. D. McCulloch
  • Drill Core Library 2010 - J. M. McMullin and M. J. O′Neill
  • Mapping a Tensional Shear-related Auriferous Zone in the Meander River at Greenhill, Hants County - R. F. Mills
  • Mineral Inventory Project Activities for 2010 - G. A. O′Reilly
  • Preliminary Report on Bedrock Aggregate Research in the Eastern Cobequid Highlands - G. Prime
  • Surficial Geology Mapping in the Metropolitan Area of Halifax Regional Municipality: New Discoveries - D. J. Utting
  • Yarmouth Coastal Mapping, a Component of the Atlantic Climate Adaptation Solutions (ACAS) Project - D. J. Utting
  • Preliminary Geology of the Southern Antigonish Highlands, Northern Mainland Nova Scotia - C. E. White, D. B. Archibald, T. G. MacHattie and E. A. Escarraga
• External Abstracts and Conference Presentations
  • Evaluating the Origin of Garnet, Cordierite, and Biotite in Granitic Rocks: a Case Study from the South Mountain Batholith, Nova Scotia - S. Erdmann, R. A. Jamieson and M. A. MacDonald
  • Identification of Geohazards Using LiDAR, Nova Scotia - D. J. Utting, G. J. DeMont, T. A. Goodwin, T. Broughm and T. Webster
  • Geohazard Mapping Using LiDAR in Nova Scotia - D. J. Utting, G. J. DeMont, T. A. Goodwin, T. Broughm and T. Webster