Till Nova Scotia 1979

Till sampling survey, NTS 20P, 21A, southwest Nova Scotia, 1979.  


Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources, Mineral Resources Branch

Survey Description

More than 90 till samples were collected in southwest Nova Scotia in approximately 1979. The data are published in Nova Scotia Department of Mines and Energy Map 82-01.

Data Description: Paper map; map margin has data tables keyed to samples located on the map.

Quantities Analysed: <0.002 mm fraction by AAS after HNO3-HCl (Laforte) digestion for at least 12 elements; by colourimetry after nitric-perchloric acid digestion for As; by fluorometry after hot nitric acid for U; heavy mineral concentrate (0.063-0.300 mm fraction) by colourimetry after a carbonate flux-fusion followed by hot water leach for W and by AAS after ammonium iodide sublimation followed by HCl leach for Sn.

Geochem Plots Available: Sample sites with anomalous element levels are indicated on map.



Publication History

Stea, R.R. (1981). Pleistocene geology and till geochemistry of south central Nova Scotia (Sheet 6). Nova Scotia Dept. Mines and Energy Map 82-01.


Project History

1978-1982 Nova Scotia Pleistocene geology project
  Surficial mapping and till sampling were carried out in Nova Scotia in 1978 and 1979. The data are published in Nova Scotia Department of Mines and Energy Maps 81-01, 82-01 and 82-10.



Minimum Latitude Maximum Latitude Minimum Longitude Maximum Longitude

43.67º

44.37º -65.25º -64.25º