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Author : Dredge, L.A.; Nixon, F.M.; and Richardson, R.J.
Date : 1986
Title : Quaternary geology and geomorphology of northwestern Manitoba
Publication : Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir
Issue : 418
Page(s) : 38 p.
Abstract
The landscape of Northwestern Manitoba is typical of much of the Canadian midnorth. The area includes an extensive tract of muskeg in the south, which passes through boreal forest to tundra barrens. Some parts of the region lie within the zone of continuous permafrost; others lie in the descontinuous permafrost zole. Major lanscape elements were shaped in pre-Quaternary times, but most surface deposits and landforms are the result of the last contental glaciaion and the subsequent inundation of glacial lakes and the sea. This report was written in response to a need for information on terrain conditions related to engineering construction, and on glacial transport patterns as they relate to drift prospecting and mineral exploration.
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