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Between 2004 and 2006, the ice cap was thinning at a rate of 1 m (3 ft 3 in) per year. The ice cap contains Canada's oldest ice, some of it being over 20,000 years old. [ 2 ] It is a remnant of the Laurentide Ice Sheet , which covered much of Canada during the last glacial period of the Earth's current ice age . [ 3 ]
The Flemish Cap is an area of shallow waters in the north Atlantic Ocean centered roughly at 47° north, 45° west or about 563 km (350 miles) east of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. The shallow water is caused by a wide underwater plateau covering an extended area of 42,000 km 2 (12,000 square miles).
Canada's EEZ currently covers the majority of the Grand Banks except for the lucrative "nose" (eastern extremity, near the Flemish Cap) and "tail" (southern extremity) of the fishing bank. The 1783 Treaty of Paris gave the United States shared rights to fish in these waters, but that section of the Treaty is no longer in force.
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Iron cap may refer to: Gossan - geological formation; Iron Dome - missile defense system; Iron-cap princes (铁帽子王) ...
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Iron Springs is a hamlet in southern Alberta, Canada within the Lethbridge County. [2] It is located on Highway 25, approximately 28 kilometres (17 mi) northeast of Lethbridge. It was founded in 1925 when the railroad arrived. [3] The community was named after a spring of the same name near the original town site. [4]