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The Manitoba Escarpment, or the Western Manitoba Uplands, are a range of hills along the Saskatchewan–Manitoba border. [1] The eastern slopes of the range are considered to be a scarp . They were created by glacial scouring and formed the western shore of prehistoric Lake Agassiz .
Manitoba has an extreme climate, but southern latitudes allow agriculture. The northern area of the region ranges from coniferous forests to muskeg to tundra in the far north. Before settlement had occurred, a vast portion of southern Manitoba was either flood plain or swamp. An extensive system for drainage ditches was required throughout ...
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EI Region of Southern Manitoba (EI Region #40) — includes census divisions 2, 13, and 14, as well as the entirety of the Central Plains, Interlake, Parkland, Pembina Valley, and Westman regions. EI Region of Northern Manitoba (EI Region #41) — includes census divisions 1 , 12 , and 18 , as well as the entirety of the Northern Region
The Ashville Formation is a geological formation in Saskatchewan and Manitoba whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation. [2] It is geochronologically equivalent to the Lower Colorado Group and the Viking Formation in central Alberta.
The area north of the orange line was the Laurentide Ice Sheet. The Pembina Escarpment is a scarp that runs from South Dakota to Manitoba , and forms the western wall of the Red River Valley . The height of the escarpment above the river valley is 300–400 feet (91–122 m).
The Western Canada Sedimentary Basin (WCSB) [1] [2] underlies 1.4 million square kilometres (540,000 sq mi) of Western Canada including southwestern Manitoba, southern Saskatchewan, Alberta, northeastern British Columbia and the southwest corner of the Northwest Territories.
Turtle Mountain, or the Turtle Mountains, is an area in central North America, in the north-central portion of the U.S. state of North Dakota and southwestern portion of the Canadian province of Manitoba, approximately 62 miles (100 km) south of the city of Brandon on Manitoba Highway 10 / U.S. Route 281.