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Truro, July 21-1912, Sunday,
Left Belle and Truro at 10.05 A.M.
for Montreal and Toronto on the Ocean Limited.
The Triassic extends from south Truro
to East Mines at the extreme foot of the
rise of the land towards the Cobequids.
A very thick conglomerate appears about
5 miles to the north of East Mines that I think
does belong to the Triassic. It dips to the
north at an angle of about 10°. The pieces are
gray coarse, angular and ill assorted but
bedding is easily discernable. Evidently
much of the material came from the Cobequids
after they relevation in later Pennsylvanian
times. These conglomerates are not over 2 to 3
miles south of Londonderry.
Londonderry may be regarded as at the
southern foot of the Cobequids. From here
northward the land begins to be more rugged
and is underlain by Paleozoic. Reddish
shales followed beds by thick formation of
trowden conglomerate dipping southward!