Known also as the Borderlands, the Interior Plains reside mainly in Canada. Located on the eastern side of North America, this plains region has three main climates across its large expanse. In the south, it's a dry prairie; the middle portion is wet and tree-covered; the northern Interior...
Most of the Adirondacks region consists of an ancient dome of Precambrian rock, similar geologically to the Canadian Shield, but also includes the Tug Hill Upland, which is more similar geologically to the Allegheny Plateau. Landforms include high Appalachian peaks (roughly 90 peaks surpass 1000 m...
These molecules can move laterally over the surface of the rocks towards any colder region in the ground (Harris, 1986a). Since the ground surface is the coldest place in winter (Fig. 4), the moisture accumulates at the surface of the permafrost table. In the active layer, the accumulated...
such as the Canadian Rockies and the Alps. Fault-block mountains, such as California’s Sierra Nevada, are formed when Earth’s crust cracked and was pushed upward. Volcanic mountains form when hot magma from deep in Earth’s interior breaks through the crust and builds up on the...
The Canadian North remains one of the least settled and least economically exploited parts of the world. Canada can be divided into six physiographic regions: the Canadian Shield, the interior plains, the Great Lakes–St. Lawrence lowlands, the Appalachian region, the Western Cordillera, and the ...
Canadian Shield, one of the world’s largest geologic continental shields, centered on Hudson Bay and extending for 8 million square km (3 million square miles) over eastern, central, and northwestern Canada from the Great Lakes to the Canadian Arctic an
Prairie Provinces, the Canadian provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, in the northern Great Plains region of North America. They constitute the great wheat-producing region of Canada and are a major source for petroleum, potash, and natural g