🎉   Please check out our new website over at books-etc.com.

Seller
Your price
£115.48
RRP: £149.99
Save £34.51 (23%)
Printed on Demand
Dispatched within 14-21 working days.

Landscapes and Landforms of Western Canada

World Geomorphological Landscapes

Edited by Olav Slaymaker
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG, Cham, Switzerland
Published: 16th Dec 2016
Dimensions: w 210mm h 279mm d 28mm
Weight: 1867g
ISBN-10: 3319445936
ISBN-13: 9783319445939
Barcode No: 9783319445939
Trade or Institutional customer? Contact us about large order quotes.
Synopsis
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.

New & Used

Seller Information Condition Price
-New£115.48
+ FREE UK P & P

What Reviewers Are Saying

Submit your review
Newspapers & Magazines
"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)