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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Shield Country: The Life and Times of the Oldest Piece of the Planet

Shield Country: The Life and Times of the Oldest Piece of the Planet

Bastedo, Jamie

Paperback

Series: Anthologies

Geology

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ISBN10: 0889951918
ISBN13: 9780889951914
Publisher: Red Deer Press
Published: Sep 10 2002
Pages: 276
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.79 Width: 6.73 Depth: 9.47
Language: English
The Canadian Shield is a distinct ecological region that forms the evergreen, granite-studded crown stretching across two-thirds of North America. In size, it approximates western Europe with one percent the number of people. A satellite view of the region on a winter's night shows tiny, widely scattered blips of light-islands of human settlement adrift in a sea of subarctic wilderness. In age, the shield's primeval bedrock dates to the beginning of earthly time. Shield Country unfolds a fascinating story of unrivaled Precambrian geology, of wild rivers and millions of pristine lakes, of an ecological junction where subarctic and arctic climates, plants, birds, and mammals weave a richly textured wilderness fabric.

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