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What does Canadian Shield mean?

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  1. An area of very old bedrock surrounding Hudson Bay, and covering about half the land area of Canada.
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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.
One of only 11 bogs and nine fens in the Canadian Shield that exceed 100 hectares in expanse.
Although these banded rocks are not organic, they do look like the banded stromatolites now known from the Precambrian of the Canadian Shield.
The park lies in the southern part of the Canadian Shield, representing some of the oldest exposed rock formations in the world.
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?
Compared to the Canadian Shield, the world's great mountain ranges are the merest infants.

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