Academic literature on the topic 'Lumsden of the Guides'

Diatom valves and chrysophyte scales were analyzed in sediment cores to assess historical (post-1860) and recent (since 1970) trends in lake water pH, total [Al], and [Ni] in Lumsden, George, and Acid lakes (Killarney Provincial Park, Ontario). Although acidification in Lumsden and Acid lakes started in the 1930s, rapid acidification only occurred since the 1960s. As lake water pH declined, inferred [Al] greatly increased causing the extirpation of the sport fisheries. In nearby George Lake, acidification started in the 1920s, and inferred lake water pH declined about 0.5 of a pH unit by 1960. The fish community in George Lake survived where the inferred acidification was less severe than Acid and Lumsden lakes. As in previous paleolimnological studies, chrysophytes generally indicate earlier and more marked acidification trajectories when compared with trends inferred from diatoms, probably because the vernal blooming and euplanktonic chrysophytes are tracking spring pH depressions. Although all three lakes have acidified and metal concentrations have increased during this century, our study provides evidence that these lakes, located as far as 60 km away from Sudbury, are showing signs of biological and chemical recovery as a result of recent reductions in SO2 emissions from the Sudbury smelters.

<p><span style="font-family: 'Minion Pro','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Cambrian to Ordovician metamorphosed clastic sedimentary rocks of the Meguma terrane have no correlatives elsewhere in Atlantic Canada but are similar to successions in North Wales. In the Meguma terrane, the Cambrian Goldenville Group, dominated by sandstone, is overlain by the Halifax Group, consisting mainly of fine-grained slate and siltstone. Within the Halifax Group widespread Furongian black slate units are overlain by greyer units with rare Early Ordovician fossils, assigned to the laterally equivalent Bear River, Feltzen, Bluestone Quarry, Lumsden Dam and Glen Brook formations. The type section of the Bluestone Quarry Formation, here defined, is on Halifax Peninsula, where four constituent members are recognized; the type section of the Lumsden Dam Formation is here defined in the Lumsden Dam region near Wolfville. Detrital zircons extracted from a sample of the Lumsden Dam Formation show a range of ages similar to those displayed by the underlying Goldenville Group, including abundant Neoproterozoic zircon representing Avalonian or Pan-African sources, and a prominent group of peaks between 1.95 and 2.2 Ga, probably representing sources in West Africa. A sample from the Glen Brook Formation east of Halifax shows a similar distribution. In contrast to the correlative Welsh successions, no influx of Mesoproterozoic zircon is seen in Early Ordovician samples, suggesting that, if the two basins were in close proximity in the Cambrian, they had diverged by the Early Ordovician, possibly as a result of strike-slip motion along the margin of Gondwana.</span></p>