Cobequid Mountains

Its collision with a section from present-day northern Africa has resulted in the current landscape in the province; a remnant fault line from this event, the Cobequid-Chedabucto Fault, extends along the southern portion of the Cobequid Mountains, immediately north of the Minas Basin and Cobequid Bay east to Canso.

Some mistakenly consider the Cobequid Mountains to extend into Antigonish County further east, however this smaller range is geologically distinct and is named the Pictou-Antigonish Highlands.

[1] The highest point of the Cobequid Mountains is an unnamed peak on the eastern side of the Wentworth Valley (365 m (1,198 ft)).

The range contains an abundance of freshwater lakes and some springs which form headwaters that flow via a number of small rivers and streams south into the Minas Basin and north into Northumberland Strait.

Several escarpments associated with the Fundy Basin have been formed from fault lines, resulting in a number of waterfalls on the southern mountain slopes.

Waterfall on the Great Village River, one of many deeply cut rivers flowing out of the Cobequid Mountains of Nova Scotia.
A photograph of a river and a waterfall, running through a deep V-shaped valley surrounded by a forest. The higher elevations feature hardwoods, while the valley sides have softwoods.
The waterfall around 7 km north of Economy , showing the typical terrain of the Cobequid Mountains: a relatively level plateau with a mix of hard and softwoods, interspersed with multiple rivers running through deep, V-shaped valleys.