This outlying ridge of slates (Unit 423) is part of an ancient landscape that is still being exhumed from its cover of more recent sedimentary deposits. The south branch of the Stewiacke River flows to the north of the ridge and the Musquodobit River valley is to the south. Both form parts of the Windsor Lowlands till plain (Unit 511). Parts of the Atlantic Interior are in the background. Quartzite Barrens (Unit 413) and one of the Eastern Shore Drumlin fields (Unit 435). Flat-lying clays derived from Canso group rocks form the poorly drained clay plain (Unit 540).