| But can they be the decisive factor when comparing summer tenting in the rocks of the Rockies to the rocks of Ontario's Canadian Shield? |
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| We suggest that the shallow epicratonic platform area of the Canadian Shield may have served as a refugium for relatively archaic taxa. |
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| These are located on the Canadian Shield in the northern and southeastern areas of the province at considerable distance from point sources. |
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| As with the prairies, images of vast Canadian forests and the rugged Canadian Shield rich in minerals are familiar Canadian icons. |
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| It's a very beautiful community, far off the beaten track, right on the edge of the Canadian Shield. |
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| Compared to the Canadian Shield, the world's great mountain ranges are the merest infants. |
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| One of only 11 bogs and nine fens in the Canadian Shield that exceed 100 hectares in expanse. |
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| For example, the most common tree of the Canadian Shield, the black spruce, is a marvel of endurance in the struggle for survival in the wilds. |
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| The area is the transitional zone between the coniferous forest of the Canadian Shield and the aspen parklands of the prairies. |
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| The Agawa rock paintings are among the best preserved of about 400 groups of pictographs on the Canadian Shield and are attributed to Algonquins such as the Ojibwa. |
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| There are many belts of greenstone throughout the Canadian Shield. |
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| This very narrow and angular lake is a good example of what a photo interpreter would map as a lineament in the Canadian Shield. |
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| Bird's-eye view of an ELA lake showing the typical terrain of the Canadian Shield. |
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| Although these banded rocks are not organic, they do look like the banded stromatolites now known from the Precambrian of the Canadian Shield. |
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| The park lies in the southern part of the Canadian Shield, representing some of the oldest exposed rock formations in the world. |
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| Can Canada really afford to take in nuclear waste from other countries and bury it in the Canadian Shield? |
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| Northwestern Ontario is a vast area, much of which lies on the gently inclining, rocky and forested terrain of the Canadian Shield. |
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| Tundra superimposed on the Canadian Shield is the characteristic that makes this region stand out. |
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| The Eardley Plateau hosts a concentration of wetlands typical of the Canadian Shield, where wildlife can find good quality undisturbed habitats. |
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| Quebec's Gaspé Peninsula offered many examples: farms located on the Canadian Shield or near its edge. |
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| This method produced some of the many thousands of lake basins that dot the edge of the Canadian Shield. |
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| In addition, iron levels probably exceed the quality standard, as is true for most bodies of water in the Canadian Shield, affected as they are by the metal-rich nature of the parent rock. |
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| The Canadian Rockies and Canadian Shield overlie much of the land mass. |
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| Shades of rose and pink are used for the Archean plutonic rocks that dominate the Canadian Shield but, in general, are paler than the colours of the Paleozoic granitoid units. |
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| The Park is endowed with hundreds of kilometres of trails, forests containing more than fifty species of trees, abundant wildlife and numerous crystal-clear lakes typical of the hills of the Canadian Shield. |
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| This quintessential Canadian Shield wilderness is an outstanding boreal forest, with a rich diversity of plants and wildlife in a landscape that speaks to the traditional lifeways of the Anishinabe. |
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| Much of the rest of the Northwest Territories is dominated by Canadian Shield terrain, which is much older, has less relief, and is largely scraped bare of readily erodible material by continental glaciation. |
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| It is developing and testing new geoscientific models, methods and approaches that will guide exploration in this highly promising but poorly exposed area of the Canadian Shield. |
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| This regional government administers a half-dozen villages scattered over 355,000 square kilometres of mostly rugged Canadian Shield landscape that border Ontario and James Bay, 800 kilometers northwest of Montreal. |
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| The Canadian Shield represents about half of the land area of Canada. |
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| In particular, POPs tend to accumulate in the freshwater regions of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence basin, in the cold lakes of the Canadian Shield and in marine ecosystems along Canada's coasts. |
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| This fertile plain, known as the St. Lawrence Lowlands, is bounded by the Canadian Shield to the north and by the Appalachian Mountains to the south. |
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| Although this region has three separate sections, it is united by two distinctive characteristics: the mixed forest of coniferous and deciduous trees and the ancient bedrock of the southern edge of the Canadian Shield. |
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| Labrador is the easternmost part of the Canadian Shield, a vast area of ancient metamorphic rock comprising much of northeastern North America. |
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| Across the Canadian Shield and in the north there are large iron, nickel, zinc, copper, gold, lead, molybdenum, and uranium reserves. |
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| The Canadian Shield also has a complex hydrological network of perhaps a million lakes, bogs, streams and rivers. |
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| If his views of the Canadian Shield seem so familiar to us, it is because we have pondered them so often in art and life. |
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| The Canadian boreal forest is the northernmost and most abundant of the three forest areas in Quebec that straddle the Canadian Shield and the upper lowlands of the province. |
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| The geography of the Canadian Shield just doesn't allow that. |
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| Central and eastern Canada have much more rock and Canadian Shield. |
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| Just south of the impressive Canadian Shield mountain range, the landscape is one of trees, lakes and villages with timber homes peppered across the luscious countryside. |
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| The target model for this style of mineralization is the Musselwhite mine in Ontario, located in the western Superior geological province of the Canadian Shield. |
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| Since the end of the last glacial period, Canada has consisted of eight distinct forest regions, including extensive boreal forest on the Canadian Shield. |
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| In this context, the Precambrian rocks of the Canadian Shield, known for their numerous metal and diamond deposits, offer favourable prospects for future mineral exploration. |
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| Because of its similarity to the Canadian Shield and cratons of southern Africa and Western Australia, the Baltic Shield had long been a suspected source of diamonds and gold. |
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| That ancient ore is now found on the Earth's surface, and is particularly common in the Canadian shield. |
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| This can result in the emplacement of dike swarms, such as those that are observable across the Canadian shield, or rings of dikes around the lava tube of a volcano. |
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