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Landscapes and Landforms of Western Canada

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Editors:
  1. Olav Slaymaker

    1. Department of Geography, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

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  • Is the only book to focus on the geomorphological landscapes of Canada West
  • Presents unique visual and tabular imagery
  • Outlines the little-appreciated diversity of Canada’s landscapes and the nature of its geomorphological landscape, which deserves wider publicity

Part of the book series: World Geomorphological Landscapes (WGLC)

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Table of contents (29 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introduction to the Geomorphological Landscapes of Western Canada

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Long-Term Geomorphic History of Western Canada

      • Olav Slaymaker, Dori J. Kovanen
      Pages 3-26

    3. Pleistocene Landscapes of Western Canada

      • Olav Slaymaker, Dori J. Kovanen
      Pages 27-48

    4. Holocene and Anthropocene Landscapes of Western Canada

      • Olav Slaymaker, Dori J. Kovanen
      Pages 49-73

  3. Case Studies of Periglacial, Aeolian, Fluvial, Glacial, Karst, Coastal and Anthropogenic Landscapes and Landforms Under the Influence of Geological Structure, Climate, and Land Use/Land Cover

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75
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    2. Slave Geological Province: An Archetype of Glaciated Shield Terrain

      • Stephen A. Wolfe, Daniel E. Kerr, Peter D. Morse
      Pages 77-86

    3. Great Slave Lowland: The Legacy of Glacial Lake McConnell

      • Stephen A. Wolfe, Peter D. Morse, Steve V. Kokelj, Adrian J. Gaanderse
      Pages 87-96

    4. The Banks Island Tundra

      • Hugh M. French
      Pages 97-108

    5. The Peel Plateau of Northwestern Canada: An Ice-Rich Hummocky Moraine Landscape in Transition

      • Steven V. Kokelj, Jon F. Tunnicliffe, Denis Lacelle
      Pages 109-122

    6. Little Limestone Lake: A Beautiful Marl Lake in the Interlake Region, Manitoba

      • Derek Ford
      Pages 123-129

    7. Landscapes of the Assiniboine River Watershed

      • W. F. Rannie
      Pages 131-142

    8. Red River Valley, Manitoba: The Geomorphology of a Low-Relief, Flood-Prone Prairie Landscape

      • Gregory R. Brooks
      Pages 143-155

    9. The Foothills Erratics Train Region

      • Lionel E. Jackson Jr.
      Pages 157-165

    10. The Prairie Dune Archipelago

      • Stephen A. Wolfe
      Pages 167-176

    11. The Polar Desert Landscape of Prince Patrick Island

      • Hugh M. French
      Pages 177-185

    12. Cold Climate, Canyons and Karst Along the Canol Road Corridor, Mackenzie Mountains, NWT

      • D. C. Ford, J. P. Hamilton
      Pages 187-203

    13. The Many Landscapes of South Nahanni National Park

      • D. C. Ford
      Pages 205-225

    14. Castleguard Cave and Karst, Columbia Icefield, Alberta and British Columbia

      • D. C. Ford, C. C. Smart
      Pages 227-239

    15. Glacier Landscapes in the Canadian Rockies

      • Brian Henry Luckman
      Pages 241-255
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About this book

This is the only book to focus on the geomorphological landscapes of Canada West. It outlines the little-appreciated diversity of Canada’s landscapes, and the nature of the geomorphological landscape, which deserves wider publicity. Three of the most important geomorphological facts related to Canada are that 90% of its total area emerged from ice-sheet cover relatively recently, from a geological perspective; permafrost underlies 50% of its landmass and the country enjoys the benefits of having three oceans as its borders: the Arctic, Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Canada West is a land of extreme contrasts — from the rugged Cordillera to the wide open spaces of the Prairies; from the humid west-coast forests to the semi-desert in the interior of British Columbia and from the vast Mackenzie river system of the to small, steep, cascading streams on Vancouver Island. The thickest Canadian permafrost is found in the Yukon and extensive areas of the Cordillera are underlain by sporadic permafrost side-by-side with the never-glaciated plateaus of the Yukon. One of the curiosities of Canada West is the presence of volcanic landforms, extruded through the ice cover of the late Pleistocene and Holocene epochs, which have also left a strong imprint on the landscape. The Mackenzie and Fraser deltas provide the contrast of large river deltas, debouching respectively into the Arctic and Pacific oceans.

Reviews

“Wherever you are in western Canada, this book has something to offer you, something to teach you about the landscapes you live among or are driving through on a summer adventure. … The book is filled with hundreds of maps, graphs, and photographs, which really help to bring the stories to the reader. … this book is a must-have for anyone who is enthusiastic about learning the stories behind the landscapes around them.” (Syd Cannings, bcbooklook.com, September, 2018)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Geography, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

    Olav Slaymaker

About the editor

Olav Slaymaker Member of the Order of Canada, is a professor emeritus of geography in the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.
His 20+ co-authored and edited monographs and 160+ refereed papers reflect three distinct styles of work. First, he has pursued original field research for 40 years on sediment systems in the Canadian Cordillera and the European Alps, strongly supported and enhanced by his stellar doctoral and postdoctoral students and international
colleagues. Second, he has produced papers and books summarizing trends in land use and environmental change in mountain regions. Third, he has edited monographs with invited international contributions on major environmental and geomorphological themes. He is a former President of the Canadian Association of Geographers and a former 
President of the International Association of Geomorphologists.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Landscapes and Landforms of Western Canada

  • Editors: Olav Slaymaker

  • Series Title: World Geomorphological Landscapes

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44595-3

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-44593-9Published: 16 December 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83089-6Published: 05 July 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-44595-3Published: 01 December 2016

  • Series ISSN: 2213-2090

  • Series E-ISSN: 2213-2104

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 435

  • Number of Illustrations: 36 b/w illustrations, 276 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Geomorphology, Geology

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