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West Educational Publishing Co., St. Paul, Mn., 123 pp. 1994. PERSPECTIVES
ON CANADIAN GEOLOGY Martini,
I. P., and
Chesworth, W.
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OF CONTENTS
FOREWORD,
1 PART
A. FUNDAMENTAL GEOLOGICAL IDEAS, 3
1.
INTRODUCTION TO CANADIAN EARTH SCIENCES, 3; Origins, 3; Geological and
physiographic subdivisions of Canada, 3; Climate
and its consequences, 5 2.
GEOLOGICAL TIME SCALE AND RELATED CONCEPTS, 7; The geological time scale, 7;
Uniformitarianism and catastrophism, 7; Extinctions, 9; Canadian
Dinosaurs, 10; ThE Burgess Shale, 12 PART
B. MATERIALS AND ROCK FORMING PROCESSES IN CANADA, 13 3.
THE MAJOR MINERAL GROUPS IN CANADA, 13; Common silicate minerals, 13; Reaction
series, 15 4.
IGNEOUS ROCKS, 17; Batholiths, 17; Veins and pipes, 18; Canadian volcanoes and
volcanic rocks, 20 5.
TYPICAL STRATIGRAPHIC SEQUENCES, 23; Passive margins, 23; Stable craton, 23;
Active plate margins, 23; Exploration geophysics, 25 6.
METAMORPHIC ROCKS IN CANADA, 29; The pressure-temperature framework and
metamorphic facies, 29; Metamorphic facies in Canada, 29; Distribution of facies
series in Canada, 30 PART
C. SURFICIAL PROCESSES AND MATERIALS, 33
7.
CANADIAN GLACIATIONS, 33; Pleistocene, 33; Precambrian, 34; Glacial landscape
and landuse in southwestern Ontario, 34; Slope failure in sensitive glacio-marine
clays, 39 8.
CLIMATIC CHANGES AND HUMAN SETTLEMENT, 41; The Old Crow area, northern Yukon,
41; The Algonquin village on the Niagara Escarpment, southern Ontario, 41; The
Inuit of eastern Canada, 44 9.
SOILS OF CANADA, 47; Weathering and Soils of Canada, 47; The sustainability of
agriculture, 49; Permafrost, 50; Cryoso1ic soils, 52 10.
NORTHERN RIVERS, 53; Regime, 53; Human interferences, 56; Water diversion from
Canada to the United States, 56; Niagara River, 58 11.
GROUNDWATER, 61; Williston Basin, 61; Karst, 63 12.
WIND ACTION, 65; Loess, 65; Sand dunes, 65 13.
NORTHERN SEAS AND COASTS, 69; Offshore areas, 69; Fjords, 70; Nearshore areas,
71; Macrotidal embayments of eastern Canada, 73 14.
SEDIMENTS AND CLIMATE, 75; Peat, 75; Evaporites, 79; Carbonate reefs, 81 PART
D. GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURES AND MOUNTAINS, 83
15.
FOLD MOUNTAINS, 83; General architecture, 83; The Cordillera, 84; The
Appalachians, 92; The Innuitian Tectonic Province, 95; The Wilson Cycle, 97 PART
E. GEOLOGICAL RESOURCES, 99
16.
MINERAL DEPOSITS, 99; Economic deposits in Canada, 99; Economic deposits not
found in Canada, 101; Drift prospecting 101 17.
INDUSTRIAL MINERALS, 103 18.
PETROLEUM AND COAL, 105; Eastern Canada, 105; St. Lawrence Platform, 105;
Western Canada, 105; Hudson Platform, 108; Arctic Islands, 109; Athabasca Tar
Sands, 109 PART F. USEFUL INFORMATION, 111; Canadian geoscience departments and museums, 111; National and provincial geological surveys, 115; Government publishing offices, 116; Provincial tourist service phone numbers, 117 |
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