Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A plateau region of eastern Canada extending from the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River northward to the Arctic Ocean. The highland formation also covers much of Greenland and forms the Adirondack Mountains in the United States.
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- proper noun An area of very old
bedrock surroundingHudson Bay , and covering about half the land area ofCanada .
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- noun a large plateau that occupies more than 40% of the land area of Canada; it extends from the Great Lakes northward to the Arctic Ocean
Etymologies
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Labrador is located on the northeastern mainland, on the plateau known as the Canadian Shield.
Secret of the Night Ponies JOAN HIATT HARLOW 2009
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Labrador is located on the northeastern mainland, on the plateau known as the Canadian Shield.
Secret of the Night Ponies JOAN HIATT HARLOW 2009
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Labrador is located on the northeastern mainland, on the plateau known as the Canadian Shield.
Secret of the Night Ponies JOAN HIATT HARLOW 2009
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Its Coldstream Property is located in the Western Superior geological province of the Canadian Shield, which is noted for hosting prolific gold deposits in Ontario, Canada.
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Western Superior geological province of the Canadian Shield, which is noted for hosting prolific gold deposits in Ontario, Canada.
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For example, clear-flowing rivers of the Canadian Shield have higher biodiversity at lower trophic levels (e.g., invertebrates) than very turbid rivers of the lowlands of Siberia and the Interior Plain of Canada [32].
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The abundance of ground ice is a key factor in subsidence, such that areas with little ice (e.g., the Canadian Shield or Greenland bedrock masses) will suffer fewer subsidence effects when permafrost degrades.
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We lived in the Laurentian Mountains north of Montreal, so no fossils are known in this part of the Canadian Shield.
Museum Monday #1: St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm ReBecca Foster 2009
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Boreal regions with a diversity of geological and soil substrates, such as Far East Russia, the Scandes Mountains, and the northern Rocky Mountains of North America, are relatively species-rich compared to more uniform areas such as the Canadian Shield or the Ob Basin.
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There are many kettle (produced by the melting of buried glacial ice), moraine, and ice-scour lakes on the undulating terrain of postglacial arctic landscapes (e.g., the Canadian Shield, Fennoscandia, and the Kola Peninsula; [49]).
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