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Download or read book Ontario Rocks written by N. Eyles and published by Markham, Ont. : Fitzhenry & Whiteside. This book was released on 2002 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its long and rocky past, the place we call Ontario has traveled across the equator, been peppered and pockmarked by meteorites, seen the rise and decline of towering mountains, and gave rise to some very strange and now extinct organisms. In fact, what seems like a changeless landscape was once covered by vast seas and huge, continent-wide ice sheets which measured 2 kilometres thick, leaving in their wake, the Great Lakes. Ontario Rocks tells this fascinating 3 billion year long story of Ontario's geological evolution, from its beginnings as part of an early landmass called Arctica, its incorporation into enormous supercontinents, through to the repeated ice ages and abrupt climatic changes of the last few thousand years. Merging Canadian geology with global evolution, this highly illustrated survey also touches on the development of Ontario's mining and oil industries, and the commercial use of rocks as building material. Ontario Rocks concludes with an exploration of the "artificial" urban landscape, and how geologists use their knowledge to safeguard groundwater and rivers, dispose of wastes and understand the hazards posed by earthquakes and erosion. Ontario Rocks is a highly accessible sourcebook, perfect for students and all those intrigued by the history and formation of the land under us.
Book Synopsis Selected Studies of Archean Gneisses and Lower Proterozoic Rocks, Southern Canadian Shield by : G. B. Morey
Download or read book Selected Studies of Archean Gneisses and Lower Proterozoic Rocks, Southern Canadian Shield written by G. B. Morey and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 1980 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Basement and Basins of Eastern North America by : Ben A. Van der Pluijm
Download or read book Basement and Basins of Eastern North America written by Ben A. Van der Pluijm and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Federation of Ontario Naturalists Publisher :University of Toronto Press ISBN 13 :9780802027559 Total Pages :554 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (275 download)
Book Synopsis A Nature Guide to Ontario by : Federation of Ontario Naturalists
Download or read book A Nature Guide to Ontario written by Federation of Ontario Naturalists and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Showcases over 600 sites easily accessible by the amateur naturalist. Chapters describe how to get the most out of a nature trip, and provide overviews of Ontario's natural history and rich plant and animal life.
Book Synopsis Petrography and Geology of the Igneous Rocks of the Highwood Mountains, Montana by : Louis Valentine Pirsson
Download or read book Petrography and Geology of the Igneous Rocks of the Highwood Mountains, Montana written by Louis Valentine Pirsson and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Toronto Rocks written by Nicholas Eyles and published by Markham, Ont. : Fitzhenry & Whiteside. This book was released on 2004 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We use our knowledge of geology to build safer cities." (from Toronto Rocks) With its dense streetscapes, the Toronto region seems an unlikely location for a geological field trip, yet as our cities expand and natural landscape becomes buried, the greater the importance of the geology beneath our feet to our everyday existence. Where can we build safely? Where do we dump our garbage? Where are our ground waters and how can we protect them? What happens to salt we put on icy roads when it permeates into the ground in the spring? How can we protect and preserve such national treasures as the Niagara Escarpment and the Oak Ridges Moraine? As cities continue to expand, altering the natural landscape and changing the natural balance of the planet beneath our feet, the answers to questions about our geological past are more important today than ever before. Where can we build safely? How strong are the rocks beneath the buildings we continue to push skyward? What do we do with polluted soil? Will the CN Tower fall? What does the history of earthquakes tell us of possible future events? In Toronto Rocks, University of Toronto geology professor Nick Eyles conducts a unique tour of Canada's largest city past and present; a city of more than 6 million people where the past beneath our feet is perhaps more important than ever before.
Book Synopsis THE SCIENTIFIC PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY by :
Download or read book THE SCIENTIFIC PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Report of Progress - Geological Survey of Canada by : Geological Survey of Canada
Download or read book Report of Progress - Geological Survey of Canada written by Geological Survey of Canada and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1853-56, 1877/78, 1882-84 include atlases.
Book Synopsis The Canadian Encyclopedia by : James H. Marsh
Download or read book The Canadian Encyclopedia written by James H. Marsh and published by The Canadian Encyclopedia. This book was released on 1999 with total page 2652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of "The Canadian Encyclopedia is the largest, most comprehensive book ever published in Canada for the general reader. It is COMPLETE: every aspect of Canada, from its rock formations to its rock bands, is represented here. It is UNABRIDGED: all of the information in the four red volumes of the famous 1988 edition is contained here in this single volume. It has been EXPANDED: since 1988 teams of researchers have been diligently fleshing out old entries and recording new ones; as a result, the text from 1988 has grown by 50% to over 4,000,000 words. It has been UPDATED: the researchers and contributors worked hard to make the information as current as possible. Other words apply to this extraordinary work of scholarship: AUTHORITATIVE, RELIABLE and READABLE. Every entry is compiled by an expert. Equally important, every entry is written for a Canadian reader, from the Canadian point of view. The finished work - many years in the making, and the equivalent of forty average-sized books - is an extraordinary storehouse of information about our country. This book deserves pride of place on the bookshelf in every Canadian Home. It is no accident that the cover of this book is based on the Canadian flag. For the proud truth is that this volume represents a great national achievement. From its formal inception in 1979, this encyclopedia has always represented a vote of faith in Canada; in Canada as a separate place whose natural worlds and whose peoples and their achievements deserve to be recorded and celebrated. At the start of a new century and a new millennium, in an increasingly borderless corporate world that seems ever more hostile to nationaldistinctions and aspirations, this "Canadian Encyclopedia is offered in a spirit of defiance and of faith in our future. The statistics behind this volume are staggering. The opening sixty pages list the 250 Consultants, the roughly 4,000 Contributors (all experts in the field they describe) and the scores of researchers, editors, typesetters, proofreaders and others who contributed their skills to this massive project. The 2,640 pages incorporate over 10,000 articles and over 4,000,000 words, making it the largest - some might say the greatest - Canadian book ever published. There are, of course, many special features. These include a map of Canada, a special page comparing the key statistics of the 23 major Canadian cities, maps of our cities, a variety of tables and photographs, and finely detailed illustrations of our wildlife, not to mention the colourful, informative endpapers. But above all the book is "encyclopedic" - which the "Canadian Oxford Dictionary describes as "embracing all branches of learning." This means that (with rare exceptions) there is satisfaction for the reader who seeks information on any Canadian subject. From the first entry "A mari usque ad mare - "from sea to sea" (which is Canada's motto, and a good description of this volume's range) to the "Zouaves (who mustered in Quebec to fight for the beleaguered Papacy) there is the required summary of information, clearly and accurately presented. For the browser the constant variety of entries and the lure of regular cross-references will provide hours of fasination. The word "encyclopedia" derives from Greek expressions alluding to a grand "circle of knowledge." Our knowledge has expandedimmeasurably since the time that one mnd could encompass all that was known.Yet now Canada's finest scientists, academics and specialists have distilled their knowledge of our country between the covers of one volume. The result is a book for every Canadian who values learning, and values Canada.
Book Synopsis Journal of the Royal Geological Society of Ireland by : Royal Geological Society of Ireland
Download or read book Journal of the Royal Geological Society of Ireland written by Royal Geological Society of Ireland and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Report of the Bureau of Mines by : Ontario. Bureau of Mines
Download or read book Report of the Bureau of Mines written by Ontario. Bureau of Mines and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stone written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Landscapes and Landforms of Eastern Canada by : Olav Slaymaker
Download or read book Landscapes and Landforms of Eastern Canada written by Olav Slaymaker and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-13 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 wetlands, and their extent is second only to those of Russia. In the Hudson and James Bay regions, between 75-100% of the terrestrial surface is comprised of wetlands. One of North America’s largest river basins, the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence basin, has its source in Minnesota, straddles the USA-Canada border and debouches into Quebec as the St. Lawrence River and evolves through its estuary into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, a journey of almost 5,000 km. As far as meteorite craters are concerned, 10% of the world’s total are located in eastern Canada, including some of the largest and most complex landforms. They are preserved preferentially in the ancient Shield terrain of Quebec. Finally, the three million km2 of permafrost controlled relief in eastern Canada serves as a reminder of the vulnerability of eastern Canada’s landscapes to climate change. Effects of warming are expressed through thawing of the permafrost, disruption of transportation corridors and urban construction problems, ever-present geomorphic hazards.
Book Synopsis Annual Report of the Department of Agriculture, for the Province of Ontario by : Ontario. Department of Agriculture
Download or read book Annual Report of the Department of Agriculture, for the Province of Ontario written by Ontario. Department of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consists of separately paged reports of bodies related to the Dept.
Book Synopsis Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 1087 by :
Download or read book Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 1087 written by and published by Natural Resources Canada. This book was released on with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Rockhound: An Experience of the North by : Michael Gordon
Download or read book Rockhound: An Experience of the North written by Michael Gordon and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-04-12 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'Rockhound: An Experience of the North', rock and mineral collectors will read about the experience of collecting rocks, minerals, crystals and gemstones in Ontario, in particular, the area around Bancroft and up towards Cobalt and Gowganda. Rockhound focuses primarily on how to find specific minerals and collectors are led to world class deposits and instructed in recovery techniques and basic gem and mineral identification. Thick pine forests, abandoned gold mines, stunning gem seams and ghost towns are all part of the northern rockhound experience.
Download or read book Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
