21.2. Geological History of Western Canada – Vocabulary
Section 21.0 Introduction
- geological history
- geological features
- Laurentia
- Archaean
- Holocene
Section 21.1 Geological history of Canada
- geologic provinces
- craton
- stable
- supercontinent
- Pangea / Pangaea
- uplift
- burial
- plate tectonics
- Acasta Gneiss
- Nuvvuagittuq greenstone belt
- greenstone belt
- Billion years ago (Ga)
- Million years ago (Ma)
- Appalachian fold belt
- Innuitian fold belt
- Cordilleran fold belt
- Canadian shield
- Rodinia
- Ordivician period
- Silurian period
- Devonian period
- marine sediments
- Gondwana
- Appalachian Mountains
- Himalaya Mountains
- Pearya
- Rocky Mountains
- collide / collision
- lithology / lithologies / lithological
Section 21.2 Western Canada during the Precambrian
- Precambrian
- orogen
- Superior Province
- metamorphose / metamorphosed
- greenstone belt
- volcanogenic massive sulphide deposit / VMS deposit
- Trans-Hudson Orogen (THO)
- Churchill Craton
- Wyoming Craton
- Hearne Craton
- Rae Cratons
- Athabasca Basin
- Thelon Basin
- undeformed
- unconformity-type uranium deposit
- extraterrestrial impact
- Carswell Crater
- Taltson Magmatic Zone (TMZ)
- Slave Craton
- Acasta Gneiss
- Wopmay Orogen
- continent-continent collision
- Muskox Intrusion
- Ultramafic intrusion
- Monashee Complex
- supergroup
- Purcell Supergroup / Belt Supergroup
- supercontinent Columbia
- Windermere Group
- clastic sedimentary rock
- deposition
- Snowball Earth glaciation
- continental slope
- Toby Formation
- glacial dropstone
Section 21.3 Western Canada during the Paleozoic
- Paleozoic Eon
- passive margin
- Cambrian Era
- Burgess Shale
- Stephen Formation
- fossil bed
- inland sea
- Western Canada Sedimentary Basin (WCSB)
- Prairie Evaporite Formation
- terrane
- Panthalassic Ocean
- Wrangellia Terrane
Section 21.4: Western Canada during the Mesozoic
- Mesozoic Era
- accretion
- terrane accretion
- Quesnel Terrane
- Cache Creek Terrane
- Stikine Terrane
- Intermontane Superterrane
- BC Interior Plateau
- Insular Superterrane
- Alexander Terrane
- outboard terranes
- Coast Plutonic Complex (CPC)
- thrust
- plate convergence
- uplift
- foreland basin
- terrestrial sediment
- marine sediment
- Dinosaur Park Formation
- Scollard Formation
- Horseshoe Canyon Formation
- Hilda Bone Bed
- depositional basin
- Nanaimo Basin
- Bowser Basin
Section 21.5 Western Canada during the Cenozoic
- Cenezoic Era
- Pacific Rim Terrane
- Crescent Terrane
- subduction
- Juan de Fuca Plate
- igneous complex
- sedimentation
- Paskapoo Formation
- Ravenscrag Formation
- Turtle Hills Formation
- strata
- terrestrial fluvial environment
- deltaic environment
- Kamloops Group
- Tranquille Formation
- lacustrine sediment
- Dewdrop Flats Formation
- McAbee Beds
- Pleistocene glaciation
- Cordilleran Ice Sheet
- Laurentide Ice Sheet
- glacier / glaciation
- glacial erosion features
- glacial sediment
- glacial depositional features
- drumlin field
- esker
Other vocabulary
- ice sheet
- interior platform
- basement rocks
- thermal subsidence
- buoyant uplift
- domes
- the Canadian Prairies
- intracratonic basins
- Western Interior Seaway
- Laramide orogeny
- Taconic orogeny
- Acadian orogeny
- Appalachian orogeny
- Appalachian orogen
- Innuitian orogen
- Ellesmerian orogeny
- Eurekan orogeny
- Axel Heiberg Island
- Cordilleran orogen
- Coast Range
- cordillera
- Pacific Cordillera / Canadian Cordillera
- continental shelf and slope
- Atlantic continental shelf
- thrust fault
