...M.G. Fowler; A.P. Hamblin; D.J. MacDonald; P.G. McMahon ABSTRACT The occurrence and organic geochemistry of six bitumens from two different regions of Nova Scotia are discussed. Five of the samples are from the Lake Ainslie area of western Cape Breton, where oil seeps have been described since 1864...

...–strontium age determination using whole-rock samples of the volcanic members has yielded an age of 349 ± 15 million years. This is in good agreement with age determinations elsewhere for the Devonian–Mississippian boundary. Similar rocks exposed to the east of Lake Ainslie, some thirty miles...

... , F.J. , and Allen , T.L. 1997 . Bedrock geology of Port Hood-Lake Ainslie (11K04, 11K03, 11F13), Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. scale 1:50 000. Geological Survey of Canada Open File 3253 . Hamblin , A.P. 1998 . A preliminary report on the sedimentology, tectonic control...

... time, and extensive evaporite precipitation. Extension mobilized Viséan, Namurian, and syn-kinematic Westphalian units above the Ainslie Detachment, which occurs along the basal evaporite contact, forming an allochthonous raft measuring at least 67,000 km 2 . Contrasting contractional and extensional...

..., Cobequid–Chedabucto fault zone; LMBF, L’Archeveque – Mira River fault; HF, Hollow Fault. Fig. 1. Regional map showing location of Maritimes basin, principal Devonian–Carboniferous igneous rocks, and principal faults. Farther south in the Lake Ainslie – Gillanders Mountain area (Fig.  2...

... (Chowdhury et al., 1991), oil shales within the Big Marsh Member of the South Lake Creek Formation at Big Marsh near Antigonish (Kalkreuth and Macauley, 1987; Utting and Hambl in, 1991), and oil shows from the Ainsl ie Formation around Lake Ainslie on Cape Breton Island (Short, 1986; Fowler et al., 1993...

.... Another potash and rock salt mine in Windsor Group rocks at Cassidy Lake, to the west of the McCully area, flooded in late 1997; the structural geology of this mine has been described by Roberts ( 1990 ), and Roberts and Williams ( 1993 ). The Moncton Basin has also been of economic interest because...

...., 1991 ), rather than the slightly different scheme used in New Brunswick ( St. Peter and Johnson, 2009 ). The lowest units (Fountain Lake, Horton, and Sussex Groups) record mainly fluvial and lacustrine conditions in the southern tropical arid belt. Extensive volcanic activity, associated with basin...

... with the Ainslie Detachment. It is therefore expected to be more prevalent in the 11 “saline” areas identified in Fig. 2 , as well as underlying the south-central portions of the Island, principally under the Bras d’Or Lake estuary. Within these zones, there are two major structural types — broad-scale complex...

... area showing locations of dated samples. Map has been simplified after Ténière ( 2002 ). On the west, the Horton Group of the Lochaber–Mulgrave area is in probable faulted contact with rocks of the Silurian–Devonian Arisaig Group ( Murphy et al. 1991 ). The dextral strike-slip Lochaber Lake...

.... In Nova Scotia, near New Glasgow, black shales from which oil can be distilled occur with coal-bearing strata of the Pictou series. The richest of these beds is torbanite. In the vicinity of Lake Ainslie, Inverness County, Nova Scotia, petroleum residues occur in a brown sandstone in the upper part...

... in the latter area. In Nova Scotia there are traces of petroleum and natural gas in Carboniferous rocks. On Cape Breton Island, oil seepages were noted in the Lake Ainslie area from the upper part of the Lower Mississippian Horton Group ( Bell, 1958 ; Norman, 1935 ). Near Little Narrows, Windsor limestone...

... ( C ) being beyond the extent of this map (adapted after Van Blerk, 2006 ). The choice of the site for the Vaalputs facility was based on the following criteria ( Andreoli et al., 1986 ; Levin, 1988 ; Ainslie et al., 2003 ): very low population density and no discernible prospect...

... of the first location. At the east there are oil seepages in the Lake Ainslie area and it is hoped to reach the beds from which the seepages are believed to originate. In Gaspé, Quebec, Continental Petroleums Ltd. has continued its explorations. A well commenced in January, 1944, has been drilled...

..., 1978 ), (11) Pine Brook Ba ( Felderhof, 1978 ), (12) Yava Pb ( Sangster and Vaillancourt, 1990 ), (13) Lake Ainslie Ba-F veins hosted by deformed basement and Horton Group sediments ( Kontak and Macdonald, 1995 ), (14) Newfoundland carbonate platform Zn-Pb-Ba ( Kirkham, 1985 ; Saunders and Strong...

... dextral transpression, southern Nova Scotia, Canada: tectonic and petrological consequences . Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 2 ( 62 ): 152 – 170 . doi: 10.1139/cjes-2024-0044 . Corrigan , D. , Wodicka , N. , and Lebeau , L. 2025 . The Folster Lake Formation, Nunavut: remnant...

.... Browne I. A. A study of the Tasman geosyncline in the region of Yass, N. S. W Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 1954 88 3 23 Buchan K. L. Hodych J. P. Early Silurian palaeopole for redbeds and volcanics of the King George IV Lake area, Newfoundland...

... Paleozoic evolution of eastern North America . Geol. Soc. Am. Bull. 111 : 240 – 253 . Barr , S. M. ; Macdonald , A. S. ; Arnott , A. M. ; and Dunning , G. R. 1995 . Field relations of the Fisset Brook Formation in the Lake Ainslie-Gillanders Mountain area, central Cape Breton...

... area under license at year end to 2,266,694 ha. (5,601,118 acres). Chevron undertook a 65-km (40-mi) seismic program in the Lake Ainslie area of Cape Breton early in 1983, and is reviewing its data from the Minas basin, Cumberland basin, and Cape Breton blocks. Tricentrol carried out a 12-km (7.5-mi...