O. Slaymaker – Landscapes and Landforms of Western Canada (2017)

Автор: O. Slaymaker
Название книги: Landscapes and Landforms of Western Canada
Формат: PDF
Жанр: Геология
Страницы: 439
Качество: Изначально компьютерное, E-book

This is the only book to focus on the geomorphological landscapes of Canada West. It outlines the little-appreciated diversity of Canada’s landscapes, and the nature of the geomorphological landscape, which deserves wider publicity. Three of the most important geomorphological facts related to Canada are that 90% of its total area emerged from ice-sheet cover relatively recently, from a geological perspective; permafrost underlies 50% of its landmass and the country enjoys the benefits of having three oceans as its borders: the Arctic, Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Canada West is a land of extreme contrasts — from the rugged Cordillera to the wide open spaces of the Prairies; from the humid west-coast forests to the semi-desert in the interior of British Columbia and from the vast Mackenzie river system of the to small, steep, cascading streams on Vancouver Island. The thickest Canadian permafrost is found in the Yukon and extensive areas of the Cordillera are underlain by sporadic permafrost side-by-side with the never-glaciated plateaus of the Yukon. One of the curiosities of Canada West is the presence of volcanic landforms, extruded through the ice cover of the late Pleistocene and Holocene epochs, which have also left a strong imprint on the landscape. The Mackenzie and Fraser deltas provide the contrast of large river deltas, debouching respectively into the Arctic and Pacific oceans.
Long-Term Geomorphic History of Western Canada
Pleistocene Landscapes of Western Canada
Holocene and Anthropocene Landscapes of Western Canada
Slave Geological Province: An Archetype of Glaciated Shield Terrain
Great Slave Lowland: The Legacy of Glacial Lake McConnell
The Banks Island Tundra
The Peel Plateau of Northwestern Canada: An Ice-Rich Hummocky Moraine Landscape in Transition
Little Limestone Lake: A Beautiful Marl Lake in the Interlake Region, Manitoba
Landscapes of the Assiniboine River Watershed
Red River Valley, Manitoba: The Geomorphology of a Low-Relief, Flood-Prone Prairie Landscape
The Foothills Erratics Train Region
The Prairie Dune Archipelago
The Polar Desert Landscape of Prince Patrick Island
Cold Climate, Canyons and Karst Along the Canol Road Corridor, Mackenzie Mountains, NWT
The Many Landscapes of South Nahanni National Park
Castleguard Cave and Karst, Columbia Icefield, Alberta and British Columbia
Glacier Landscapes in the Canadian Rockies
The Northern Interior Yukon: An Example of Periglaciation
Old Crow Flats: Thermokarst Lakes in the Forest–Tundra Transition
The Deglacial Landscape of the Southern Fraser Plateau, British Columbia
The Diverse Landscapes of Haida Gwaii
Lillooet-Harrison Drainage Basin: Variable Landscapes Within the Coast Mountains
Mackenzie Delta: Canada’s Principal Arctic Delta
Herschel Island (Qikiqtaryuk), Yukon’s Arctic Island
The Landslide-Modified Glacimarine Landscape of the Terrace–Kitimat Area, BC
The Fraser Lowland: A Polygenetic Paraglacial Landsystem
Fraser River: History in a Changing Landscape
Landscapes of the Alberta Oil Sands
Geomorphological Landscapes and Geoconservation