The Canadian Shield is a broad region of Precambrian rock (pictured in shades of red) that encircles Hudson Bay. It spans eastern, northeastern, and east-central Canada and the upper midwestern United States.
The Canadian Shield (French: Bouclier canadien[bukljekanadjɛ̃]), also called the Laurentian Shield or the Laurentian Plateau, is a geologic shield, a large area of exposed Precambrian igneous and high-grade metamorphic rocks. It forms the North American Craton (or Laurentia), the ancient geologic core of the North American continent. Glaciation has left the area with only a thin layer of soil, through which exposures of igneous bedrock resulting from its long volcanic history are frequently visible.[3] As a deep, common, joined bedrock region in eastern and central Canada, the shield stretches north from the Great Lakes to the Arctic Ocean, covering over half of Canada and most of Greenland; it also extends south into the northern reaches of the continental United States.
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The CanadianShield (French: Bouclier canadien [buklje kanadjɛ̃]), also called the Laurentian Shield or the Laurentian Plateau, is a geologic shield, a...
last glacial period, Canada has consisted of eight distinct forest regions, including extensive boreal forest on the CanadianShield; 42 percent of the...
taxonomic levels higher than the species level (genus, family)." The CanadianShield bioregion extends across the northern portion of the continent, from...
The Central CanadianShield forests are a taiga ecoregion of Eastern Canada, as defined by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) categorization system. This ecoregion...
The Midwest CanadianShield Forests is an ecoregion in Canada, classified as a Taiga and Boreal Forests Biome. This is an area of rolling hills with lakes...
Eastern CanadianShield taiga is an ecoregion of Canada as defined by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) categorization system. Located in northeastern Canada, this...
Superior Province, CanadianShield, Geological Survey of Canada, pp 27-29 Pdf Percival, J.; Easton, R. "Geology of the CanadianShield in Ontario: An Update"...
kilometres (508 mi) from the North Pole. Canada can be divided into seven physiographic regions: the CanadianShield, the interior plains, the Great Lakes-St...
regions, the Precambrian CanadianShield and the Phanerozoic Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. Within the Precambrian shield exists the Athabasca sedimentary...
The Canadian Heraldic Authority (CHA; French: Autorité héraldique du Canada) is part of the Canadian honours system under the Canadian monarch, whose authority...
The Baltic Shield (or Fennoscandian Shield) is a segment of the Earth's crust belonging to the East European Craton, representing a large part of Fennoscandia...
Green ShieldCanada (GSC) is a not-for-profit benefits carrier that provides drug, dental, extended health care, vision, hospital and travel benefits...
western Canada, which extend from the coast of the Arctic Ocean to the Canada-US border east of the Canadian Cordillera and west of the CanadianShield; links...
Northern CanadianShield taiga is a taiga ecoregion located in northern Canada, stretching from Great Bear Lake in the Northwest Territories to Hudson...
Central Canada (French: Centre du Canada, sometimes the Central provinces) is a Canadian region consisting of Ontario and Quebec, the largest and most...
of the new province at Confederation in 1867. The thinly populated CanadianShield, which dominates the northwestern and central portions of the province...
2011-02-21. "Canada: Taiga Shield reference" (PDF). Enr.gov.nt.ca. Retrieved 28 February 2022.[permanent dead link] "Climate of Canadian ecozones". Geography...
Operation Sky Shield, properly Exercise Sky Shield, was a series of three large-scale military exercises conducted in the United States and Canada in 1960,...
Angell Woods Bois Beckett Forest Central CanadianShield forests Eastern Canadian forests Eastern CanadianShield taiga Eastern Great Lakes lowland forests...
CanadianShield. The Laurentian Region, as recognized by Natural Resources Canada, is part of the plateau and dissected southern rim of the Canadian Shield...
Province formed, a subdivision of the CanadianShield. During that time, Laurentia, the geologic core of the CanadianShield, collided with other continents...
Quebec. The Canadian boreal forest is the northernmost and most abundant of the three forest areas in Quebec that straddle the CanadianShield and the upper...
orogenic zones. The CanadianShield is a large area of Archean through Proterozoic igneous and metamorphic rocks in eastern Canada and north central and...
sterling, and renminbi. The Canadian dollar is popular with central banks because of Canada's relative economic soundness, the Canadian government's strong sovereign...
Western Subarctic or western CanadianShield and Mackenzie River drainage area, the Eastern Subarctic or Eastern CanadianShield, and most of Fennoscandia...
smaller lakes of the CanadianShield. These lakes extend from the eastern Northwest Territories, through most of northern Canada, and the upper Midwestern...
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radiates throughout Canada, but its border ends near the Rocky Mountains (but still contains Alaska) and at the end of the CanadianShield, near the Great...
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