Shield Country

The Life and Times of the Oldest Piece of the Planet

von Jamie Bastedo

276 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Themen: Geowissenschaften, Geographie, Umwelt, Planung Geowissenschaften Geologie und die Lithosphäre
• ISBN: 9780889951914
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 10.09.2002
• Größe: 241 x 171 mm
• Verlag: Fitzhenry & Whiteside