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Excerpt from Annual Report, 1890-91, Vol. 5: Part II; Reports P, Q, R, S, Ss
Along the northern part of Pictou and Colchester counties, from Big Island, Merigomish, to Brulé and Tatamagouche, there is a wide belt of Permian rocks, the conglomerate at the base forming Fraser's Permian. Mountain, Green Hill, Roger's Hill, Fitzpatrick's Mountain, Dal housie Mountain, the Biorachin and other highlands on its course. The conglomerate is overlaid by grey sandstones, like those of Pictou and West River, containing one or more thin coal seams; and these are succeeded in turn by brownish and red sandstones and marls with thin layers of limestone. Dark red, crumbly, Triassic Triassic. Sandstone and conglomerate, generally in nearly horizontal attitude, occupy a basin which extends westward from near Valley station, one rim fringing the south side of Mines Basin, the other reaching much further inland on the north side. Two principal intrusions of igneous rock have been determined within the area. In one red Igneous rocks. Syenite, diorite, felsite and similar rocks cut no strata newer than the Devonian, in the other Triassic sandstones are intersected and intermixed with great masses of basalt and amygdaloid which furnish the celebrated trap minerals of the Bay of Fundy.
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