The geology of Quebec involves several different geologic provinces, made up of ancient Precambrian crystalline igneous and metamorphic rock, overlain...
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The geology of the Appalachians dates back more than 1.2 billion years to the Mesoproterozoic era when two continental cratons collided to form the supercontinent...
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Quebec (French: Québec [kebɛk] ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is the largest province by area and the second-largest...
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Canadian Shield (redirect from Ancient Mountains Of The Canadian Shield)
called the Laurentian Shield or the Laurentian Plateau, is a geologic shield, a large area of exposed Precambrian igneous and high-grade metamorphic rocks...
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Nastapoka arc (category Geology of Quebec)
Nastapoka arc is a curved segment of the southeastern shore of Hudson Bay in Quebec, Canada, that extends from the most northerly of the Hopewell Islands to Long...
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The Western Quebec Seismic Zone (French: Zone sismique de l'Ouest du Québec) is a seismically active area in the Ottawa Valley in Eastern Ontario and...
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Gatineau Hills (category Geology of Quebec)
Valley. They are also the foothills of the Laurentian Mountains which stretch east through Quebec, beginning north of Montreal and joining up with others...
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Ottawa-Bonnechere Graben (category Geology of Quebec)
System – Geological rift in the center of the North American continent Ottawa Valley – Valley in Ontario and Quebec in Canada Volcanology of Canada –...
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chronostratigraphy (the process of relating strata to time) and geochronology (a scientific branch of geology that aims to determine the age of rocks). It is used...
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Clay Belt (category Geology of Quebec)
Clay Belt is a vast tract of fertile soil in Canada, stretching across Cochrane District in Ontario and Abitibi County in Quebec, covering 180,000 square...
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Acadian orogeny (category Geology of Quebec)
"Application of Foreland Basin Detrital Zircon Geochronology to the Reconstruction of the Southern and Central Appalachian Orogen". The Journal of Geology. 118...
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Superior Craton (category Geology of Quebec)
terranes: an example from the Archean Ashuanipi Subprovince of Quebec". Journal of Metamorphic Geology. 21 (2): 181–201. Bibcode:2003JMetG..21..181G. doi:10...
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Quebec is one of the largest Archean greenstone belts on Earth and one of the youngest parts of the Superior craton which sequentially forms part of the...
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Saint Lawrence rift system (category Geology of Quebec)
"Microseismicity in the mid-St. Lawrence Valley Charlevoix zone, Québec". Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 71 (5): 1553–60. Bibcode:1981BuSSA..71.1553A...
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Labrador Trough (category Geology of Quebec)
Quebec Orogen is a 1,600 km (994 mi) long and 160 km (99 mi) wide geologic belt in Canada, extending south-southeast from Ungava Bay through Quebec and...
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Quebec City (/kwɪˈbɛk/ or /kəˈbɛk/; French: Ville de Québec), officially known as Québec (French pronunciation: [kebɛk]), is the capital city of the Canadian...
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In Quebec City, the term promontory of Quebec refers to the area on which is built the upper part of the borough of La Cité-Limoilou, including Old Quebec...
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The geology of Ontario is the study of rock formations in the most populated province in Canada- it is home to some of the oldest rock on Earth. The geology...
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du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC) is a branch of the Université du Québec network founded in 1969 and based in the Chicoutimi borough of Saguenay, Quebec, Canada...
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part of Canada, and (from a historical and political perspective) part of Central Canada, Quebec occupies a territory nearly three times the size of France...
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Timiskaming Graben (category Geology of Quebec)
straddling the Ontario–Quebec border in Eastern Canada. It is a northwesterly extension of the Ottawa-Bonnechere Graben, a failed arm of the Saint Lawrence...
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Grenville Front Tectonic Zone (category Geology of Quebec)
Shield, extending from the northern shore of Lake Huron through Ontario and Quebec to Labrador, a distance of about 1,900 km (1,200 mi). The Grenville...
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Michel Jébrak (category Academic staff of the Université du Québec)
founding member of Quebec section at the Geological Association of Canada. He has served as president of the scientific council of Ouranos, and of Science and...
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Appalachian Uplands (category Regions of Canada)
Uplands is one of the seven physiographic regions in Canada, distinguished by its topography and geology. The region includes southern Quebec, Gaspésie, New...
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Joseph Frederick Whiteaves (category Fellows of the Geological Society of London)
knowledge of the fossils of the Great Oolite series, Cornbrash and Corallian. He visited Canada in 1861 and made acquaintance with the geology of Quebec and...
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This is a list of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Quebec, Canada. Paleontology portal Canada portal Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database...
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The Quebec Group is a geologic group in Quebec. It preserves fossils dating back to the Silurian period. Earth sciences portal Canada portal Paleontology...
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Pingualuit crater (redirect from Ungava-Quebec Crater)
located on the Ungava Peninsula in the administrative region of Nord-du-Québec, in Quebec, Canada. It is 3.44 km (2.14 mi) in diameter, and is estimated...
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Canadian geological engineer and academic. He helped develop a number of prospecting and exploration technologies. Born in Shawinigan, Quebec, he graduated...
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