GEOG 2OC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Solar Transition Region, Nordicity, Muskeg
13 Sep 2020
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Week 10 canadian regional geography part iv: the near north. The boundaries of the near north are largely physical in nature - the region as defined here more or less coincides with the boreal forest and the canadian shield. The region comprises 40% of canada"s area, and contains about 8% of its population lomoar cpsd| 2151316. But it is also, to some degree, an indictment of that society . The near north (sometimes called the laurentian highlands/uplands) covers roughly 4. 6 million square km"s of land - it is underlain by mostly granitic precambrian rock (roughly. 4 billion years old), with low relief - this is the prototypical canadian landscape, with its abundance of lakes, rock, boreal forest and muskeg bogs. The settlement patterns of this area have been largely influenced by topography and the environment - agricultura settlements are limited to clay belts along the.
