书目名称 | Landscapes and Landforms of Eastern Canada | 编辑 | Olav Slaymaker,Norm Catto | 视频video | | 概述 | Serves as a complementary book to Landforms and Landscapes of Canada (west).Includes numerous illustrations presenting the landscapes and geomorphology of eastern Canada.Provides and informative and a | 丛书名称 | World Geomorphological Landscapes | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .This critical book focuses on the geomorphological landscapes of eastern Canada and provides a companion volume to “Landscapes and Landforms of Western Canada” (2017). There are a number of unique characteristics of eastern Canada’s landscapes, notably its magnificent coastlines, the extraordinary variety and extent of wetlands, the huge Great Lakes-St. Lawrence basin, the high incidence of meteorite craters, the spectacular Niagara Falls, urban karst in Montreal and Ottawa, youthful, glaciated karst in Ontario, Newfoundland, Quebec and Nova Scotia, the ubiquitous permafrost terrain of Nunavut, Labrador and northern Quebec and the magnificent arctic fjords and glaciers..Looking at coastlines, the tidal extremes of the Bay of Fundy are world renowned; the structural complexity of the island of Newfoundland is less well known, but produces an astounding variety of coastlines in close succession; the arctic fjordlands of Baffin and Ellesmere islands and the extravagant raised beaches of Hudson Bay bear comparison with the classic fjords of Norway and the Baltic Sea raised beaches. As for wetlands, there are distinctive Arctic, Subarctic, Boreal, Eastern Temperate and Atlantic wetland | 出版日期 | Book 2020 | 关键词 | Geomorphology; Landscapes and Landforms of Canada; Physical Geography; Geological structure; Topographic | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35137-3 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-35137-3Series ISSN 2213-2090 Series E-ISSN 2213-2104 | issn_series | 2213-2090 | copyright | Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 |
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