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This report covers three field trips have been done for the course of “Geology of Nova Scotia”. Nova Scotia is a province located in Eastern Canada fronting the Atlantic Ocean. The geological history of the province spans more than 1.2 billion years . Nova Scotia has a great variety of coastal landforms. Most of the land in this province is bedrock. As the result, erosion and transportation of unconsolidated material, have been doing formed beautiful landforms like beaches and marshes. These deposits are also being eroded and/or flooded by the rising sea level. However, it is still possible to intact out crop of formation and see how tectonically complex is the geological history of Nova Scotia.
The first field trip covers Cambrian
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Each of those pieces were parts of larger plates: Cape Breton was part of a large continental craton named Laurentia, Northern Nova Scotia was part of microcontinent “Avalonia”, and the remaining South-Western area was a part of Gondwana which is classified as a supercontinent. Each area has been significantly changed by volcanoes, mountain building, erosion, faulting and glaciation. At different times they were sea bottoms, swamps, deserts, inland lakes, tropical rain forests, and frozen beneath mile high glaciers. As another example, around 300 million years ago Nova Scotia was attached to Morocco in …show more content…
Based on Dr. Ralph’s comments, the drumlin has been shaped by glaciers during these separate advances into a lobate form, with one lobe parallel to an early southeastward ice flow from a New Brunswick glacier and another aligned with a later southward flow from an ice cap over the Gulf of St. Lawrence. A rock outcrop next to the drumlin shows crossing scratches or striae made by these glaciers as they scoured the exposed bedrock. The till deposits contain erratic boulders that have undergone a lengthy journey from their home outcrops in the Cobequid Highlands, 100 km to the north, carried by fast-moving rivers of ice called ice
The Northeast region is the best region because it has a lot of very important, historical landmarks. Also it has amazing products & natural resources that you might love. Best of all we got the most beautiful climates that I personally love and I think you should too.
The Starved Rock Member of the Saint Peter Sandstone is preserved as a northeast-southwest trending belt of strata that is ...
The third alluvial deposition consists of sand, silt and minor inter-bedded gravel, and again indicates Brimbank Park’s changing geology over time. (Geological map of Victoria, 1973). These deposits, as well as a nearby fault suggest volcanic activity 5-1.6 million years ago, which explains the olivine basalt (fig. 2) deposits which date back to to the Silurian and Tertiary period.
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The Canadian shield covers up the northern and western parts of Ontario, which are unfertile lands covered with rocks, but instead southern and eastern parts of Ontario are covered with fertile lands.
the Strait of Belle Isle, and the Gulf of Saint Lawrence; on the south by New
Newfoundland joined Canada in 1949, making it the most recent province to became part of the country. Some historians argue that the delay is diffcult to understand, since Newfoundland had the chance to enter into Canada in 1867. This paper explores why Newfoundland did not join Confederation in 1867 and remained an independent political entitiy. In was not in their best interest given the overarching political debacle which unfolded between the colony’s Conservatives and Liberals. The decision to remain an independent political entitiy or join the federal govenrment was hindered by opposing poltical views. Despite having two men, known today as the Fathers of Confederation, at the Quebec Conference who supported the idea of union, Newfoundland itself did not. A general election to decide the fate of the colony resulted in ongoing dissatisfaction with the idea of joining the new dominion. The question of higher taxation and terrifies that would hinder the success of the colony was a risk people were not yet ready to take. Most of Newfoundland’s core industries began to suffer and fall apart, while the colonies government continued to disagree, despite a concerted effort made by Canadian officials to have them join the larger nation.
The definition of sustainability “is the ability to continue a defined behavior indefinitely.” (World Commission on Environment and Development, 1987) In the way of geography, this means that the earth will never stop producing this resource, no matter how much we take of it, there will always be more. An example of a non-renewable or non-sustainable resource would be something such as coal while an example of a sustainable resource would be solar power. The resource I chose, maple syrup, is also an example of a
The monumentous Mackenzie River flows approximately 3oo cubic kilometer of freshwater from Canada’s Northwest Territories and to the Arctic Ocean annually. This river is a part of a basin with tributaries, other rivers, and forests; it is considered to be a climate stabilizer. It is only a significant, intricate member of a network made entirely of other small rivers that run across the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Freshwater cycles through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago (aka the CAA) and ends up being distributed into the North Atlantic. Essentially, the Mackenzie River is a basin full of permafrost; it is very centered on the cold temperatures. This is a very risky business. As temperatures continue to rise, the permafrost and glaciers around
Today was a fascinating day! The nation that my father had brought my mother and I to has become a nation called Canada. Nova Scotia has finally become part of the four founding members of Canada after showing interest in Confederation for oh so long. ALthough when I was 11 years of age, I heard from my mother that Nova Scotia could not decide whether or not it should be a separate british colony or unite together, and join the Dominion of Canada.
The city of Ottawa is the capital and the heart of Canada. Canada's capital was chosen by Queen Victoria at that time. Canada was centrally located between the cities of Montreal and Toronto, and was along the border of Ontario and Quebec. Queen chose Ottawa as a capital of Canada because the Ottawa was not in Toronto or Montreal or in Quebec. And because Ottawa is bordering between the two colonies and with mainly french and British population, which made it easy because they won't favor either of them. In past Ottawa knows as Bytown. The name Ottawa comes from the Algonquin word adawe – which means to trade, so it’s always been an important business center.
In the Mississippian Era this area was located 10° south of the equator (GORP.com, 2002) and was covered by shallow seas, the Mississippian Seas (NPS.com). During this time deposition of sediment consisting largely of sand, silt, clay and the calcium carbonate shells from the inhabitants of the seas began forming layers of sandstone, limestone and shale. (Livesay and McGrain, 1962-1953) Between the Pennsylvania and Permian Era crustal movements, known as plate tectonics, shifted this area to 37.1833° north of the equator, causing the seas to dissipate, and the land to start to warp upward. The rivers now flowing over this land deposited additional sediment forming new layers. Continued warping of the crust created an upheaval of the crust known as the Cincinnati Arch (Fig 1) during the Paleozoic Era. (Livesay and McGrain,
The Interior Plains cover 18% (1.8 million km2) of Canada. They are located in between the western Cordillera and the Canadian Shield. They cover most of Alberta and Saskatchewan and some of NWT, Yukon, B.-C., Nunavut and Manitoba. Not all parts of the plains are flat. Most areas are covered in gently, rolling hills and deep river valleys. This big territory consists of diverse vegetation, elevation and climate. The elevation rises from approximately 600m to 1500m above sea. The winters are cold (-10* to -30*) and the summers are hot (10* to 30*). It consist mostly of Boreal Forest and Grasslands. During the ice age (Cenozoic Era) river sediments were deposited on top of rocks and as the ice sheet retreated. It left behind sedimentary rock