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Canadian Shield

[so called from its shape]

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a vast area of mineral-rich, mostly granitic, Pre-Cambrian rock surrounding Hudson Bay and extending as far southward as the Great Lakes.

See: Laurentian barrier,Laurentian plateau,Laurentian Shield,Shield,Precambrian Shield

Quotations

1929

There is no element in the present Dominion of greater significance than the so-called Canadian Shield or Laurentian Barrier.

1963

The air force . . . puts in thousands of flying hours, combing some of Canada's most rugged vastness--the Canadian Shield, the Yukon, the Arctic and the foothills.

1965

. . . carbonatite [is] a rock rare in the Canadian Shield. . . .