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The Canadian Arctic Rift System is a branch of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge that extends 4,800 km (3,000 mi) into the North American continent. It is an incipient structure that diminishes in degree of development northwestward, bifurcates at the head of Baffin Bay and disappears into the Arctic Archipelago.
The Arctic Archipelago, also known as the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, is an archipelago lying to the north of the Canadian continental mainland, excluding Greenland (an autonomous territory of Denmark, by itself, much larger than the combined area of the archipelago) and Iceland (an independent country)
Canada is unique among countries in that it borders three marine realms: the Arctic, Temperate Northern Atlantic, and Temperate Northern Pacific.These realms can be further subdivided into three marine biomes and fifteen marine ecoregions based upon biological distinctiveness.
The Arctic Lowlands and Hudson Bay lowlands comprise a substantial part of the geographic region often designated as the Canadian Shield (in contrast to the sole geologic area). The ground in the Arctic is mostly composed of permafrost, making construction difficult and often hazardous, and agriculture virtually impossible.
Map of bathymetric features in the Arctic Ocean, showing the location of the Canada Basin. The Canada Basin is a deep oceanic basin within the Arctic Ocean. [1] [2 ...
[1] [2] It is a northwesterly extension of the Ottawa-Bonnechere Graben, a failed arm of the Saint Lawrence rift system which is related to the opening of the Iapetus Ocean. [3] [4] [5] Formation of the Timiskaming Graben corresponded with collapse of the regional crust along the Quinze Dam and Cross Lake faults possibly as early as 2.4 billion ...
Baikal Rift Zone; Basin and Range Province; ... Canadian Arctic Rift System; E. East African Rift; Eger Graben; European Cenozoic Rift System; G. General Carrera Lake ...
Pages in category "Oceanic basins of the Arctic Ocean" ... Arctic Basin; B. Boreas Plain; C. Canada Basin; Canadian Arctic Rift System; E. Eurasian Basin; F.
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