The Maritimes Basin is a Mid-

Devonian The Devonian ( ) is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic era, spanning 60.3 million years from the end of the Silurian, million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Carboniferous, Mya. It is named after Devon, England, wh ...

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sedimentary basin Sedimentary basins are region-scale depressions of the Earth's crust where subsidence has occurred and a thick sequence of sediments have accumulated to form a large three-dimensional body of sedimentary rock. They form when long-term subsiden ...

that underlies parts of the northeastern United States and

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. It is a composite basin, meaning that it consists of many sub-basins, such as the Windsor-Kennetcook Basin of

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. Some of these basins host important natural resources, including

coal Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams. Coal is mostly carbon with variable amounts of other elements, chiefly hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen. Coal is formed when ...

petroleum Petroleum, also known as crude oil, or simply oil, is a naturally occurring yellowish-black liquid mixture of mainly hydrocarbons, and is found in geological formations. The name ''petroleum'' covers both naturally occurring unprocessed crud ...

, and minerals such as

sylvite Sylvite, or sylvine, is potassium chloride (KCl) in natural mineral form. It forms crystals in the isometric system very similar to normal rock salt, halite ( NaCl). The two are, in fact, isomorphous. Sylvite is colorless to white with shades o ...

halite Halite (), commonly known as rock salt, is a type of salt, the mineral (natural) form of sodium chloride ( Na Cl). Halite forms isometric crystals. The mineral is typically colorless or white, but may also be light blue, dark blue, purple, p ...

, and

barite Baryte, barite or barytes ( or ) is a mineral consisting of barium sulfate ( Ba S O4). Baryte is generally white or colorless, and is the main source of the element barium. The ''baryte group'' consists of baryte, celestine (strontium sulfate), ...

. The Maritimes Basin was deposited and tectonically-modified during the final assembly of

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List of sub-basins in Nova Scotia

The Maritimes Basin consists of eleven sub-basins in

: * Windsor-Kennetcook Basin * Debert-Kemptown Basin * Shubenacadie Basin * Musquodoboit Basin * Cumberland Basin * Stellarton Basin * St. Mary's Basin * Antigonish Basin * Western Cape Breton Basin * Central Cape Breton Basin *

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The region has a complex basin history in terms of syndepositional deformation and superimposition of numerous episodes of fault reactivation in the basin. As such, each basin has distinctive

stratigraphy Stratigraphy is a branch of geology concerned with the study of rock layers ( strata) and layering (stratification). It is primarily used in the study of sedimentary and layered volcanic rocks. Stratigraphy has three related subfields: lithost ...

, especially within the lowermost Carboniferous section. The eleven sub-basins are located in this clickable map:Bianco, E. (2013). Seismic Interpretation of the Windsor-Kennetcook Basin. Geological survey of Canada Open File 7452. . tp://s5-bsc-faisan.cits.rncan.gc.ca/pub/geott/ess_pubs/292/292763/of_7452.pdf Available online./ref> Image:Sedimentary basins in Nova Scotia.png, center, 800px, Shaded relief digital elevation model, showing the eleven sedimentary basins in Nova Scotia. The locations of petroleum exploration wells are indicated by the black dots. poly 208 743 206 756 216 757 227 759 220 771 222 783 236 797 270 804 311 792 386 732 428 702 467 686 509 674 471 655 430 653 360 661 284 691 216 730 Windsor-Kennetcook Basin poly 69 634 75 672 124 648 183 640 283 627 411 603 506 611 611 621 736 625 699 586 604 592 509 590 435 589 364 600 310 608 213 611 131 618 84 630 Debert-Kemptown Basin poly 639 665 567 678 500 676 451 692 385 732 392 764 415 835 419 779 452 801 511 753 582 717 622 692 Shubenacadie Basin poly 484 785 503 762 556 750 627 715 560 783 535 816 503 795 490 776 Musquodoboit Basin poly 58 605 103 566 175 500 269 388 322 378 417 420 515 466 669 483 734 515 618 568 560 540 397 544 364 549 319 543 198 586 154 599 87 619 Cumberland Basin poly 469 589 557 586 628 591 710 577 764 550 807 520 828 477 744 516 661 558 602 577 539 578 Stellarton Basin poly 562 614 518 639 466 652 502 666 536 676 596 671 669 666 763 677 840 682 904 680 947 639 727 625 621 622 St. Mary's Basin poly 886 432 847 536 857 593 879 629 1024 637 1091 591 1101 572 1027 500 987 521 940 520 910 426 907 475 Antigonish Basin poly 1031 482 1086 403 1152 380 1227 331 1272 228 1209 296 1174 256 1161 304 1135 300 1148 265 1175 225 1181 183 1152 207 1169 100 1156 104 1111 207 1063 281 1007 357 1020 410 1024 453 1047 513 Western Cape Breton Basin poly 1080 555 1109 542 1115 563 1148 569 1185 566 1233 537 1288 462 1302 416 1264 379 1227 359 1174 375 1112 400 1083 430 1065 463 Central Cape Breton Basin poly 1331 233 1252 340 1358 366 1459 357 1498 336 1498 289 1432 259 1375 241

References

{{reflist Geology of Nova Scotia Sedimentary basins of North America