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The Saskatchewan River Delta (SRD), also known as Cumberland Marshes, is a large alluvial delta that straddles the border of the provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba in Western Canada. Currently terminating at Cedar Lake, Manitoba , the delta is composed mainly of various types of wetlands , shallow lakes , and active and abandoned river ...
The Saskatchewan River (Cree: kisiskāciwani-sīpiy ᑭᓯᐢᑳᒋᐊᐧᓂ ᓰᐱᕀ, "swift flowing river") is a major river in Canada. It stretches about 550 kilometres (340 mi) from where it is formed by the joining of the North Saskatchewan River and South Saskatchewan River just east of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan .
This is a list of rivers of Saskatchewan, a province of Canada. The largest and most notable rivers are listed at the start, followed by rivers listed by drainage basin and then alphabetically. Principal river statistics
Dragline Channel [1] is a man-made channel in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Originally built by the Hudson's Bay Company in the 1930s, it connects the Old Saskatchewan River Channel to Cut Beaver River [2] at the western end of the Cumberland Marshes. [3] Cut Beaver is a tributary of the Birch River, which in turn is a tributary of the ...
The Athabasca basin, a historical fluvial siliciclastic basin with sediments from the Hudsonian mountains with the occasional rare marine sequence. [16] [dead link ] The Athabasca basin was formed during the Statherian or Paleohelikian 1.7 to 1.6 billion years ago when coarse fluvial and marine clastic sediments were laid down containing gold, copper, lead, zinc, and uranium oxides.
Cumberland Island, [1] also known as Pine Island, [2] is a small island in the Saskatchewan River Delta in the east-central region of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The Saskatchewan River Delta is one of the largest active inland deltas in North America. Cumberland Island is situated between Cumberland Lake to the north and the ...
English: Map of the North Saskatchewan drainage basin in Alberta and Saskatchewan. Data derived from NASA SRTM, Statistics Canada, US Geological Survey, Natural Earth, all public domain. Data derived from NASA SRTM, Statistics Canada, US Geological Survey, Natural Earth, all public domain.
Mossy River [1] is a river in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The river's source is east of Little Bear Lake and north-east of Narrow Hills Provincial Park [2] in a hilly plateau called Cub Hills. [3] The river travels through hills, boreal forest, [4] and muskeg for about 100 kilometres en route to its mouth in the Saskatchewan River Delta.