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Forces that Shape Earth and Geological Time!
CGC1D- Canadian Geography
Planet Earth
1. Geologic History1. Cenozoic (66 mya – present)
2. Mesozoic (245 -66 mya) Dinosaurs
3. Paleozoic (570 -245 mya) Ancient Life
4. Precambrian (4600 -570 mya) Earliest Life
2. Landforms
3. Rock Cycle
Earth’s InteriorCrust/Asthenosphere- 8-64 km thick- cold & fragile-Granite and- BasaltMantle- 1800 km thick- hot & molten- Magnesium and Silicon
Outer Core- 2000 km thick- 3 - 4000°C- liquid Nickel and Iron
Inner Core- 1400 km thick- 5 - 6000°C- solid Nickel and Iron
Air
Land
Water
LITHOSPHERE
HYDROSPHERE ATMOSPHERE
Geologic History
• Precambrian Era (Canadian Shield)
Vulcanism
Fault
Ancient SeaIgneous Rock
#1 - The Canadian (also called the Precambrian) Shield
• the geologic core of the country
• ancient (4 billion years in some places), hard igneous rock from which all the other areas were created
• used to be a huge mountain range
1. Precambrian Canada
Precambriam
• Extensive volcanic activity folding/faulting and erosion– Intrusive / extrusive igneous rock– Cooling, creates Canadian Shield – Foundation of Canada’s landmass– Heat/Pressure (metamorphism) creates storehouse of
Canada’s metallic mineral wealth– Surrounded by ancient sea
Geologic History
• Paleozoic Era (Shallow seas)
Igneous Rock
ErosionErosion
Sediments
Sediments
#2 - The surrounding series of plains or lowlands
• made of sedimentary rock
• most of the sediments were eroded from the ancient Precambrian Shield
• includes the Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Lowlands, the Interior Plains, the Hudson Bay Lowlands, and the Arctic Lowlands
Erosion
Deposition Deposition
TransportationTransportation
Paleozoic con’t
• Extensive erosion, transportation (rivers), deposition of sediments from the Shield into adjacent seas
• Compression of sediments in ancient seas create sedimentary rock
• Today these sedimentary rocks form the bedrock for parts of every province
• Organisms in seas form basis of oil/gas deposits in west• Swamps (tropical climate) create coal beds in east
Geologic History
• Late Paleozoic/ Early Mesozoic Era (Appalachians formed!)
Erosion
SedimentsSediments
Mountains Forming
Igneous Rock
Late Paleozoic, early Mesozoic!
• Creation of super-continent Pangaea folds/faults/uplifts Appalachian mountains in the east
• NA is very tropical!• Sediments keep on building up• Breakup of Pangaea as NA Plate moves West colliding
with the Pacific Plate
#3 - The mountainous rim
• also made up of, in part sediments from the ancient Shield, also with metamorphic rock
• unlike the flat lowland areas, the mountainous rim rocks have been uplifted by tectonic forces
• there are three main mountain areas that make up the mountainous rim
Finally, Cenozoic era creates today’s mountain ranges…
• the Appalachian Mountains (the oldest and hence the lowest due to longer erosion)
• the Innuitian Mountains of the very far north
• the Western Cordillera (the youngest, and highest, is actually a series of several different ranges dominated by the famous Rocky Mountains, the most easterly of the Cordilleran ranges)
Geologic History
• Cenozoic Era (last 65 million years!)
Mountains Forming
Igneous Rock
Sedimentary Mountains
Eroding
Sedimentary Plains
PACIFIC OCEAN ROCKY
MOUNTAINS INTERIOR PLAINS CANADIAN
SHIELD
APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS
ATLANTIC OCEAN
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Landforms not seen (in the back) - Hudson Bay Lowlands, - Arctic Lowlands, - Innuitian Mountains
Western Cordillera
Interior Plains
Canadian Shield
Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Lowlands
Appalachians
4. Cenozoic Canada
Plate Collision
3. Mesozoic Canada
Glaciers!!! – ended about 20 000 years ago
• Intrusive Volcanic / tectonic activity begin to uplift the Coastal Range
• Tectonic forces uplift the Rockies/and as the plate rotates NW the Innuitian Mountains. (Arctic)
• Dinosaurs roamed inland sea west of the Rockies (Red Deer Alberta) until extinction @ end of Mesosoic
• Cenozoic: Rockies/Coastal Mntns. continue to form• Volcanic Activity create plateaus between Rockies and
Coastal Ranges
Rock Cycle Videos
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8dDq3el_tQ&feature=related
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcfstbQyrzU
Rock Cycle
MAGMA
IGNEOUS
SEDIMENTARY
METAMORPHIC
Cools and hardens
Weathers, erodes, and deposits
Stresses or heats
Heats and melts