WOLFVILLE FM. ON BASEMENT

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Wolfville

Example of the basal contact of the Late Triassic Wolfville Formation unconfomably overlying vertical Missisipian Horton Group at Tennycape, Nova Scotia.

The Wolfville Formation is predominately fluvial and here shows clear onlap onto basement as often seen in at the basal contact in seismic lines of rifts. The Horton Group here consists of lacustrine strata which were orignially gray, but weathered near the contact to reddish during the Triassic.