Ovens Anticline #2

3D Model

Detailed view of western end of beach section which is parallel to a northeast-trending anticline. The hinge zone of the anticline at this site displays many interesting features including saddle-reef quartz veins, bedding-parallel flexural-slip shear planes, extensional fractures (filled with quartz vein) in the outer arc of competent sand beds, and hinges thrusts among other features. See Horne and Culshaw, 2001, Journal of Structural Geology.

The rocks part of the Cambrian-Ordovician Cunard Formation of the Meguma Supergroup. The folding, faulting, vein formation, and gold mineralization is likely related to progressive deformation and metamorphism during the Late Devonian Acadian Orogeny.

Approximately 235 images taken with a Phantom 4 Pro. West of the Ovens Park near Lunenburg, Nova Scotia Canada (44.31487 N, 64.27060 W)