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The Laurentian Mountains [8] are one of the oldest mountain ranges in the world, being of Precambrian age, with some regions dating to over one billion years old. [9] The mountain range is between other related geologic features, such as the Monteregian Hills and the older Oka Hills. [10] The mountain range is located within the Grenville ...
English: The Laurentian Mountains are a mountain range in Canada, with this map showing the extent of this range from Labrador to Quebec to foothills in Ontario.
Laurentian Mountains 3.4 2.1 49. Montagne Brûlé 1,090 3,580 124 407 Laurentian Mountains 2.4 1.5 50. Mont du lac Boily 1,090 3,580 110 360 Laurentian Mountains 2.7 1.7 51. Mont Provencher 1,087 3,566 157 515 Northern Quebec 6.1 3.8 52. Mont Fernald 1,087 3,566 77 253 Notre Dame Mountains 2.2 1.4 53. Mont Joseph-Fortin 1,086 3,563 62 203
Laurentian Mountains - Located in the Canadian Shield, north of the St. Lawrence River and Ottawa River, rising to a highest point of 1166 metres (3,825 ft); Appalachians - Physiographic region consisting of thirteen provinces of which a few are in Quebec: the Atlantic Coast Uplands, Eastern Newfoundland Atlantic, Maritime Acadian Highlands, Maritime Plain, Notre Dame and Mégantic Mountains ...
The Canadian Shield (French: Bouclier canadien [buklje kanadjɛ̃]), also called the Laurentian Shield or the Laurentian Plateau, is a geologic shield, a large area of exposed Precambrian igneous and high-grade metamorphic rocks. It forms the North American Craton (or Laurentia), the ancient geologic core of the North American continent.
Physiographic area map of the interior United States. The Superior Upland is identified by "1" on the map. Brockway Mountains of the Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan (Precambrian of the Keweenian Series) The Superior Upland is the province of the Laurentian Upland which projects into the United States west and south of Lake Superior. [9]
The Laurentian Divide (green) extends from Triple Divide Peak in northwestern Montana to the tip of the Labrador Peninsula at the 60th parallel north.. The Laurentian Divide also called the Northern Divide [1] and locally the height of land, is a continental divide in central North America that separates the Hudson Bay watershed to the north from the Gulf of Mexico watershed to the south and ...
While it is often called the Laurentians in English, the region includes only part of the Laurentian Mountains. It has a total land area of 20,779.19 km 2 (8,022.89 sq mi) and its population was 589,400 inhabitants as of the 2016 Census. [1] The area was historically occupied by the Weskarini Algonquin First Nation.