Field Notebook: Nova Scotia 1912
Page 95
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Transcription
Toura July 19-1912. Friday Left Dorchester at 8.30 A.M. and arrived at Toura at 11.30. Stopping at the Stanley House. It began to rain at Dorchester and here at Toura it rains hard all day. Bound to the Hotel. Late in the afternoon after the rain walked through Victoria Park. A small stream comes rushing down the hill and has cut in the Oriopecock, a drain a sharp V shaped valley. It's a romantic cliff turned into a pretty park. The Oropecock stands at a high angle and consists apparently of sandstone and sandy shales all lacerated by the mountain eroding forces. Over the Oropecock very unconformable lies the Triassic which also has a dip but it is very low probably less than 10°. On entering the park we see the Triassic almost at the level of the stream and in less than ½ mile distant it rests on the Oropecock at an elevation about 200 feet above the stream level. The Triassic topography was therefore a rough one.