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The geology of Canada is a subject of regional geology and covers the country of Canada, which is the second-largest country in the world. Geologic units and processes are investigated on a large scale to reach a synthesized picture of the geological development of the country.
The Oldman Formation is a stratigraphic unit of Late Cretaceous (Campanian stage) age that underlies much of southern Alberta, Canada.It consists primarily of sandstones that were deposited in fluvial channel and floodplain environments.
A hydrological apex is a triple divide whose waters flow into three different oceans. Triple Divide Peak in the U.S. state of Montana and, depending on definition, Snow Dome in Canada are the only such places on Earth.
It was Canada's longest lived continuous mining operation and produced metals worth over $20 billion in terms of 2005 metal prices. Grading was in excess of 5% Pb and 6% Zn. The ore genesis of the Sullivan ore body is summarized by the following process: Sediments were deposited in an extensional second-order sedimentary basin during extension.
Within the earth science of geology, the Edmonton Group is a Late Cretaceous (Campanian stage) to early Paleocene stratigraphic unit of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin in the central Alberta plains. [2]
The Canadian Arctic Rift System is a branch of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge that extends 4,800 km (3,000 mi) into the North American continent. It is an incipient structure that diminishes in degree of development northwestward, bifurcates at the head of Baffin Bay and disappears into the Arctic Archipelago.
See the image file for details of the local geology. Detail of an area just SE of the image above. Both images are a few km NE of the Caniapiscau River. The Labrador Trough or the New Quebec Orogen is a 1,600 km (994 mi) long and 160 km (99 mi) wide geologic belt in Canada, extending south-southeast from Ungava Bay through Quebec and Labrador.
Geology of Canada by province or territory (18 C, 1 P) Geology of Canada by region (7 C) * Canada geology-related lists (3 P) A. Aquifers in Canada (1 C, 4 P) C.