DCHP-3

prairie level

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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See 1952 quote.

Quotations

1873
The depression, or slope, of the prairie level toward the north continues, with marked regularity, throughout the whole of British America.
1884
Beyond this region, distinguished for the almost inexhaustible fertility of its soil, we cross the Second Prairie Steppe, which has an elevation of 1,600 feet above the sea level.
1952
From east to west these are . . . the Manitoba Lowland or First Prairie Level, with an elevation of less than 1,000 feet above sea level . . . the Saskatchewan Plain or Second Prairie Level, with an average elevation of 2,000 feet above sea level . . . the Alberta Plain or Third Prairie Level, which rises gradually from about 2,500 feet above sea level to nearly 4,000 feet at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.
1963
They were now near . . . the long, low hill that is the edge of the next upward prairie "step."