Mineral Resources Branch Report of Activities 2002
Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources
Mineral Resources Branch
Report ME 2003-1
Edited by D. R. MacDonald
Table of Contents
- Cover and Table of Contents
- Mineral Resources Branch Activities
- Evaporite Karst at the Horton Group - Windsor Group Contact, South-central Cape Breton Island - R. C. Boehner
- Karst Geology in the Salt-bearing Windsor Group Evaporites and Controls on the Origin of Gypsum Deposits in South-central Cape Breton Island - R. C. Boehner, G. C. Adams and P. S. Giles
- Preliminary Report on the Geology of the St. Patricks Channel Salt Deposit (NTS 11K/02), Victoria County, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia - R. C. Boehner and P. S. Giles
- Mineral Inventory Studies in Cape Breton Island - G. J. DeMont
- Digital Information Services - B. E. Fisher, J. C. Poole and J. D. MacNeil
- Soil and Till Geochemistry of the Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia - T. A. Goodwin
- Eastern Shore Compilation Project - L. J. Ham
- U-Pb Age Data for Belle Côte Road Orthogneiss, Taylors Barren Pluton and Bothan Brook Pluton, Southern Cape Breton Highlands (NTS 11K/10, 11K/11): Igneous Ages and Constraints on the Age of Host Units, and Deformational History - R. J. Horne, G. Dunning and R. Jamieson
- The Coxheath Plutonic-Volcanic Belt (NTS 11K/01): A Linked Porphyry-Epithermal Mineralized System of Precambrian Age - D. J. Kontak, J. DeWolfe and P. W. Finck
- Geoscience Editing and Publishing - D. R. MacDonald, B. L. MacDonald and J. S. Saunders
- Mineral Exploration Activity in Nova Scotia, 2002 - P. D. McCulloch
- Mesozoic-Cenozoic Stratigraphy of the Lowlands of Southwest Cape Breton Island (NTS 11F/11, 11F/14) - R. R. Stea, S. E. Pullan and M. Feetham
- Preliminary Bedrock Geology of the Area Between Chebogue Point, Yarmouth County, and Cape Sable Island, Shelburne County, Southwestern Nova Scotia - C. E. White
- Gabbroic Intrusions in the Meteghan - Yarmouth Area (NTS 21A/04, 21E/01, 20P/13 and 20O/16) of the Meguma Terrane, Southern Nova Scotia - C. E. White, S. M. Barr and R. C. Gould
- New Age Controls on Rock Units in pre-Caboniferous Basement Blocks in Southwestern Cape Breton Island and Adjacent Mainland Nova Scotia - C. E. White, S. M. Barr and J. W. F. Ketchum
- External Abstracts and Conference Presentations
- The Classic Pennsylvanian Locality of Joggins, Nova Scotia: Paleoecology of a Disturbance-prone Wetland Ecosystem - J. H. Calder and H. Falcon-Lang
- Mid to Late Devonian Organic-rich Terrestrial Deposits in the Early Fill of the Maritimes Basin, Eastern Canada: Composition, Paleobotany and Source Rock Potential - J. H. Calder, P. K. Mukhopadhyay and D. C. McGregor
- Late Carboniferous Tropical Dryland Ecosystem, Joggins, Nova Scotia - H. J. Falcon-Lang and J. H. Calder
- Fluid Inclusion Decrepitate Textures in Metamorphic Vein-Gold Deposits and Granitic Pegmatites of the Meguma Terrane, Nova Scotia, Canada: Overlooked Phenomenon or a Local Anomaly - D. J. Kontak
- Analysis of Decrepitate Mounds as a Compliment to Fluid Inclusion Thermometric Data: Case Studies from Granitic Environments in Nova Scotia and Peru - D. J. Kontak
- The Jurassic North Mountain Basalts, Nova Scotia: More Than Just Simple Flood Basalts - D. J. Kontak
- Segregation Pipes in the Jurassic North Mountain Basalts, Nova Scotia; Implications for Anorogenic Magmatism - D. J. Kontak and J. Dostal
- Nature and Origin of Cornwall-type Clay Mineralization in Southwest Nova Scotia, Canada: The Black Bull Resources Inc. Yarmouth Silica-Kaolinite Deposit - D. J. Kontak and K. Kyser
- Petrology Age, and Tectonic Setting of the White Rock Formation, Meguma Terrane, Nova Scotia: Evidence for Silurian Continental Rifting - L. A. MacDonald, S. M. Barr, C. E. White and J. W. F. Ketchum
- Metamorphism and Structure of the White Rock Formation in the Yarmouth Area, Nova Scotia - D. P. Moynihan, C. E. White and R. A. Jamieson
- Sedimentology and Fossil Biota of a Pennsylvanian "Waterhole" Deposit in a Dryland Alluvial Plain Setting, Joggins, Nova Scotia - M. C. Rygel, H. J. Falcon-Lang, J. H. Calder and M. R. Gibling
- Stratigraphy and Structure of the Horton Group in the Lochaber-Mulgrave Area, Nova Scotia - P. J. Ténière, S. M. Barr and C. E. White
- Preliminary Bedrock Geology of the Tusket (20P/13) Map Sheet, Southwestern Nova Scotia - C. E. White, R. J. Horne and M. S. King
- Appendices