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The geology of Europe is varied and complex, and gives rise to the wide variety of landscapes found across the continent, from the Scottish Highlands to the rolling plains of Hungary. Europe's most significant feature is the dichotomy between highland and mountainous Southern Europe and a vast, partially underwater, northern plain ranging from ...
Canada The Munising Group or Formation is a 1,700 feet (520 m) thick, white to light grey [ 1 ] Cambrian sedimentary unit that crops out in Michigan and (to a lesser extent) Ontario . At one end of its extent, it comprises a basal conglomerate overlain by the Chapel Rock Member and the Miners Castle Member; elsewhere, it comprises the Eau ...
The environment of deposition for these sediments has changed, varying spatially and temporally. When the ocean level was high shallow marine deposits occurred; when they were low fluvial and deltaic deposits form the majority of mass. [26] From the Triassic until the early Jurassic, faulting localized as extension faulting and wrench faulting.
Deltaic deposits (1 C, 112 P) E. Evaporite deposits (21 P) F. Fluvial deposits (1 C, 318 P) G. Glacial deposits (3 C, 12 P) L. Lacustrine deposits (3 C, 204 P ...
Western Europe and parts of Central Europe generally fall into the temperate maritime climate (Cfb), the southern part is mostly a Mediterranean climate (mostly Csa, smaller area with Csb), the north-central part and east into central Russia is mostly a humid continental climate (Dfb) and the northern part of the continent is a subarctic ...
Many of Canada's major ore deposits are associated with greenstone belts. [ 15 ] The Sturgeon Lake Caldera in Kenora District , Ontario, is one of the world's best preserved mineralized Neoarchean caldera complexes, which is 2.7 Ga. [ 16 ] The Canadian Shield also contains the Mackenzie dike swarm , which is the largest dike swarm known on ...
Dunvegan Sandstone. The Dunvegan Formation is composed of marine, and deltaic sandstone with thin shale interbeds in the Peace River Country. East of Dunvegan, Alberta it is of marine origin, and in its western reaches in British Columbia it was deposited in a continental facies, where the sandstone becomes more conglomeratic.