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Mountain ranges of North America by country (12 C) Mountains of North America by country (21 C) ... Landforms of Central America by country (9 C) A.
Age of the bedrock underlying North America, from red (oldest) to blue, green, yellow (newest). Seventy percent of North America is underlain by the Laurentia craton, [5] which is exposed as the Canadian Shield in much of central and eastern Canada around the Hudson Bay, and as far south as the U.S. states of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.
Landforms of North America by country (33 C) Landforms of North America by dependent territory (11 C)-Landforms of the Caribbean (11 C, 4 P)
The United States contains varied landforms across its territory. These include: List of beaches in the United States; List of fjords of the United States; List of glaciers in the United States; List of islands of the United States; List of lakes of the United States; List of rivers of the United States
This list of North American deserts identifies areas of the continent that receive less than 10 in (250 mm) annual precipitation. The "North American Desert" is also the term for a large U.S. Level 1 ecoregion (EPA) [ 1 ] of the North American Cordillera , in the Deserts and xeric shrublands biome (WWF).
Caves of North America by dependent territory (3 C) ... Landforms of the Caribbean by dependent territory (20 C) B. Landforms of Bermuda (6 C, ...
A map of North America's physical, political, and population characteristics as of 2018. North America is a continent [b] in the Northern and Western Hemispheres. [c] North America is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Caribbean Sea, and to the west and south by the Pacific Ocean.
Western North America suffered the effects of repeated collision as slabs of ocean crust sank beneath the continental edge. Slivers of continental crust, carried along by subducting ocean plates, were swept into the subduction zone and scraped onto North America's edge. [12] About 200–300 miles inland, magma generated above the subducting ...