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	QUEBEC - LoveToKnow Article on QUEBEC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Some of the rivers draining the Laurentian country run in very deep, highwalled valleys or fjords cut in the solid rock; a number of which, comparable in character although perhaps not in depth to those of Norway and Greenland, pass outward from the central portion of the peneplain north, east and south.
		This Laurentian country in the province of Quebec and its continuation into the adjacent province contain the chief timber supplies of the Dominion, supplies which with a little husbanding on the part of the government could be made to afford a bountiful supply of timber for all future generations.
		These lowlands are bounded on the north by the Laurentian plateau, and on the south by the Notre Dame Mountains, which physical features gradually converge, the latter mountains reaching the shore of the river St Lawrence a short distance to the east of the city of Quebec.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Q/QU/QUEBEC.htm (7989 words)

	NORTH AMERICA - LoveToKnow Article on NORTH AMERICA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It is this ancient Laurentian area that the earlier geologists named the Continental Nucleus, as if it had been the first part of North America to rise from the primeval waters of an assumed universal ocean.
		Between the loftier western highlands and the lower eastern highlands (Laurentian and Appalachian) lies a great extension of medial plains, stretching in moderate altitude from the Arctic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico, and having in their The Medial middle a breadth of 1500 m.
		The Laurentian lakes are further characterized by an intimate associatioil with the ice-sheets of the Glacial period; but while glacial erosion and drift obstruction suffice to account for the smaller lakes, it is very probable that broad crustal warping and drainage reversal have been potent aids to the other processes in producing the great lakes.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /N/NO/NORTH_AMERICA.htm (4774 words)

	Laurentian Highlands
		Laurentian Highlands is a subsection of the Northern Superior Uplands Section of the Laurentian Mixed Forest Province (Figure 8.1) (Minnesota DNR 1998).
		The western boundary of the Laurentian Highlands is based on the interface between the St. Louis sublobe on the west and the St. Croix ground moraine on the east.
		The survey implementation model for the Laurentian Highlands subsection classifies 81.11 percent of the landscape as unknown (Figure 8.17.8).
	www.mnmodel.dot.state.mn.us /chapters/larh.htm (2162 words)

	Geography of the Interior United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An outlying upland of the Laurentian highlands of Canada projects into the United States west and south of Lake Superior.
		This upland, part of the Canadian Shield along with the Adirondacks, is a greatly deformed structure and is composed primarily of igneous and metamorphic crystalline rocks commonly associated with a rugged landscape.
		The reason for this exemption from glaciation is the converse of that for the southward convexity of the morainic loops.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Geography_of_the_Interior_United_States (6911 words)

	Laurentian highlands - Ecological Classification System: Minnesota DNR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The subsection is bounded on the east by the Lake Superior Highlands, on the north by mixed outwash and till plain and the Giants Range.
		Scientific and natural areas in the Laurentian mixed forest province
		Louis County is putting together a comprehensive plan for the St. Louis River.
	www.dnr.state.mn.us /ecs/laurentian/ecs_k.html (683 words)

	Laurentian Highlands
		The Laurentian Highlands are part of the plateau and dissected southern rim of the Canadian SHIELD in Québec.
		Viewed from the valleys of the Ottawa and St Lawrence rivers, the south-facing escarpments of the Shield give the appearance of mountains 500-800 m high; looking across the plateau, the relief is more moderate and subdued.
		Although the other limits are less well defined, the highlands may be considered to extend 100-200 km northward from the scarps and to stretch from the Gatineau River in the west (mean elevation 400 m) some 550 km to the SAGUENAY RIVER in the northeast.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0004555 (207 words)

	USGS Geology in the Parks
		The Superior Upland Province is the southern extension of the Laurentian Upland Province, part of the nucleus of North America called Canadian Shield.
		The basement rocks of the Laurentian Upland Province were metamorphosed about 2500 million years ago in a mountain-building collision of tectonic plates called the Kenoran orogeny.
		The rocks of the Superior Upland are mostly Precambrian metamorphic rocks and overlying Paleozoic rocks (Cambrian) covered by a thin veneer of glacial deposits left behind when glaciers melted at the end of the Pleistocene Ice Age.
	wrgis.wr.usgs.gov /docs/usgsnps/province/laurent.html (407 words)

	Glacial Lake Superior Plain/North Shore Highlands
		Glacial Lake Superior Plain, Nashwauk Uplands, and North Shore Highlands are subsections of the Northern and Southern Superior Uplands Sections of the Laurentian Mixed Forest Province (Figure 8.1) (Minnesota DNR 1998).
		Mixed hardwood-pine forest, with sugar maple, was concentrated on the ridges of the dissected clay lake plain and the Highland Flutes.
		The eastern border with the North Shore Highlands is based on the interface between Rainy Lobe sediments to the north and Superior Lobe sediments to the south (Hanson, personal communication, 1997).
	www.mnmodel.dot.state.mn.us /chapters/gnus.htm (2391 words)

	Geography_of_the_United_States
		Appalachian Highlands - lying on the eastern side of the United States, it includes the Appalachian Mountains, Adirondacks and New England province.
		The Laurentian Highlands, the Interior Plains and the Interior Highlands lie between the two coasts, stretching from the Gulf of Mexico northward, far beyond the national boundary, to the Arctic Ocean.
		The central plains are divided by a hardly perceptible height of land into a Canadian and a United States portion.
	www.hatwholesalers.com /search.php?title=Geography_of_the_United_States (1461 words)

	Central Highlands Historical (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Tennessee Highlands are comprised of the Interior Low Plateau, Ridge and Valley Province, and the Blue Ridge Province.
		The Laurentian drainage would have included much of what is now the upper Ohio system, which discharged north prior to the Pleistocene The Teays-Mississippi drained the Ozarks, Interior Low Plateau, southwestern Appalachian Plateau, Central Lowlands and portions of the Great Plains.
		During the Pleistocene most of the Laurentian system was obliterated, with the exception of portions of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers.
	www.esu.edu /~pwilson/rsch/merhis.htm (640 words)

	Vaal Triangle Info Encylopedia - Geography_of_the_United_States (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Laurentian Highlands - part of the Canadian shield that extends into the northern United States Great Lakes area.
		Interior Highlands - also part of the interior contentintal United States, this division includes the Ozark Plateau.
		The Appalachian Highland owes its oblique northeast-southwest trend to crustal deformations which in very early geological time gave a beginning to what later came to be the Appalachian mountain system.
	www.vaaltriangleinfo.co.za /wiki/index.php?title=Geography_of_the_United_States (1467 words)

	Laurentian Highlands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Laurentian Highlands consist of a landmass that extends from the Gatineau and Ottawa rivers in the west to beyond the Saguenay River in the east.
		Elevation ranges from 400 metres to more that 1000 metres (about 1300 to 3300 feet) in Laurentides Provincial Park north of Quebec City.
		These highlands are part of the southernmost portion of the Canadian Shield within Canada.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Laurentian_Highlands (97 words)

	Regional Landscape (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		From Duluth to the Canadian border, the North Shore (Lake Superior) Highlands subsection is underlain by Keweenawan basalt and diabase, which dips sharply to the southeast.
		On the Highland Flutes of the Superior Highlands, bedrock is exposed on approximately 30 percent of the land surface (Hargrave 1992).
		Similar bedrock abrasion features are common in the Superior Highlands and locally within the eastern half of the section.
	www.npwrc.usgs.gov /resource/1998/rlandscp/sec10.htm (1864 words)

	The 1998 Canadian Encyclopedia: Laurentian Highlands@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Laurentian Highlands are part of the plateau and
		scarps mark the dramatic southern edge of the highlands.
		highlands may be considered to extend 75-150 km northward
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:28748523&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (209 words)

	The United States of America
		On the east the boundary is formed by the St. Croix River and an arbitrary line to the St. John, and on the north by the Aroostook Highlands, the 45th parallel of N. lat., the St. Lawrence, and the Great Lakes.
		The characteristics of the region of the Great Lakes, which is a projection of the Laurentian Highlands in eastern Canada, are well known.
		The Laurentian uplift, seen in the Adirondacks and the region of the Great Lakes, was clearly in the earliest geological periods.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/u/united_states_of_america.html (21276 words)

	Mont-Tremblant, Parc de récréation du (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		, established 1895, is in the CANADIAN SHIELD country of the LAURENTIAN HIGHLANDS about 140 km northwest of Montreal.
		Established in 1895, it was the first provincial park in Quebec.
		The southern part of the park is dominated by a rocky massif (a large rocky block) rising to Mont-Tremblant (968 m), the highest peak in the Laurentian Highlands.
	thecanadianencyclopedia.com /PrinterFriendly.cfm?Params=J1ARTJ0005486 (113 words)

	Civilisations.ca - T.W.Edwin Sowter - Prehistoric Camping Grounds Along the Ottawa River
		Resting on this Calciferous outcrop, we meet with the ubiquitous Laurentian boulder, which the merest tyro in geology would recognize as the legacy of the great glacier which, in its descent from the Laurentian highlands, traversed at this point at least the present course of the Ottawa River.
		They are strewn along the river side of a long narrow rocky and sandy point that reaches down the river and shelters the mouth of a low marshy creek, which runs into the bay.
		This point, which is of Laurentian formation, is still a resort for trappers and fishermen.
	www.civilization.ca /cmc/archeo/sowter/1901/sowter1901f.html (3135 words)

	Newfoundland & Labrador Moose, Bear, Caribou Hunting and Salmon Fishing
		This is part of the highlands region that extends southward to Alabama in the United States.
		The highest elevations are along the west coast in the Newfoundland Highlands.
		In the north-central part of the island between the two highland areas is the Central Lowland.
	www.newfoundlandoutdoors.net /aboutnewfoundland.html (1087 words)

	Canadian Shield. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		It is the earth’s greatest area of exposed Archaean-age rock; the metamorphic rocks of which it is largely composed were probably formed in the Precambrian era.
		Repeatedly uplifted and eroded, it is today an area of low relief (c.1,000–2,000 ft/305–610 m above sea level) with a few monadnocks and low mountain ranges (including the Torngat and Laurentian Mts.) probably eroded from the plateau during the Cenozoic era.
		During the Pleistocene epoch, continental ice sheets depressed the land surface (see Hudson Bay), scooped out thousands of lake basins, and carried away much of the region’s soil.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ca/CanadSh.html (264 words)

	Effects of Emission Reductions on Lake Water Quality in Western Québec (1999)
		The quality of surface water in western Québec is highly affected by the physical properties of the underlying soil and bedrock.
		A majority of lakes located to the south and east of Rouyn-Noranda (Laurentian Highlands) show great depths along with clear waters.
		Thus, lakes from the Laurentian Highlands show pHs ranging from 5.5 to 7.0 units, along with low alkalinity, basic cations and conductivity levels.
	www.mddep.gouv.qc.ca /air/pre_acid/noranda-en (888 words)

	Tamilnad Uplands -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The Lake Superior Uplands are part of the Laurentian Highlands, or Canadian Shield.
		It is divided into highland and lowland sections.
		It is part of the great Laurentian Plateau of Canada (see Laurentian Plateau).
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9071114?tocId=9071114 (832 words)

	Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
		5,452), S Que., Canada, on the North R., NW of Montreal, at E end of Lac des Ecorces; 46°03'N 74°17'W. NW terminus of Laurentian Autoroute.
		It is a resort center, popular ski resort in Laurentian Highlands; fishing, hunting.
		Its hotels were popularly known as the “Canadian Borscht Belt” during the 1950s and 1960s.
	www.bartleby.com /69/77/S01377.html (95 words)

	Discover Canada Vancouver BC ~discovercanada.com~ travel British Columbia Alberta Ontario Quebec Maritimes cruises ...
		Long a favourite with skiers from Ontario and Quebec, this tres cool village in the Laurentian Highlands is now one of the hottest destinations in skiing.
		This spontaneous stopover was one of the bright spots of our European holiday, and Patricia and I talked not long ago about brushing up on our skills in a similar way closer to home, which is how I came to discover Tremblant, Quebec.
		It's a ski village that sits at the base of Mt. Tremblant, the tallest peak in the province's Laurentian Highlands.
	www.discovercanada.com /traveletc3.htm (1342 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In addition, you have the beauty of the North Shore Drive along Lake Superior as you come north to the Gunflint.
		The Gunflint Trail (a 60 mile paved road) is in the Laurentian Highlands, with hundreds of deep rocky lakes scoured out by the glaciers centuries ago.
		Some of the waters flow to the Atlantic and some to the Arctic.
	www.gunflintoutfitters.com /general_info (244 words)

	Canada-Ontario Infrastructure Program -Map (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Investment in cultural and recreational infrastructure benefits Deep River and Laurentian Hills
		Ministers Boudria and Coburn announce a $1,085,238 investment to improve water quality in Laurentian Hills
		South Frontenac - Addington Highlands - Carlow/Mayo -Tudor and Cashel
	www.ic.gc.ca /coip-pico/coip-pico.nsf/mapText!OpenPage&Start=1&Count=60&Expand=2.26 (37 words)

	Fumigation North Highlands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		7350, Branches 2 and 3) of North Highlands were ordered to pay a...
		oil in the Southern Highlands by a Chevron-led consortium...
		In the central highlands alone, 850,000 people are...
	www.eldoradotermite.com /Fumigation/North-Highlands.40.htm (448 words)

	Chapter Five Notes
		This is why Canada has more lakes and inland waterways than any other country.
		The Eastern Highlands - Appalachian and Laurentian Highlands are rolling hills and low mountains with forests and deepwater harbors along the rocky coast.
		The St, Lawrence and Great Lakes Lowlands - highly urban area with fertile soil, good transportation, and most of Canada's farms, people, and industries.
	www.lakelandsd.com /geo/notes/02/5.html (953 words)

	La Mauricie National Park, Mauricie-Bois-Francs, Canada - National Parks - proudly presented by Kanada News' Canada ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		La Mauricie National Park is located some 220 kilometres northeast of Montreal and has a size of 536.1 square kilometres.
		As a remain of the last Ice Age, a landscape of granite dotted by numerous lakes and a mixed forest vegetation, surrounded by the Laurentian Highlands awaits the visitor.
		The park is popular with paddlers and hikers alike.
	www.canadavacationplanner.com /listings/en/765 (243 words)

	Cross Country Skiing on the Gunflint Trail, Minnesota
		The renowned Gunflint Trail Nordic System offers some of the best cross-country skiing anywhere, with nearly 200km of marked and groomed tracked trails, some lit for night skiing, and many groomed for skate skiing, too.
		Thanks to our beneficial location in the Laurentian Highlands, the average annual snowfall exceeds 100 inches.
		Snow cover is deep and dependable from late November through early April most years.
	www.gunflint-trail.com /winter/xcski.html (267 words)

	ADIRONDACKS - Online Information article about ADIRONDACKS
		Hamilton counties, often included by geographers in the Appalachian See also:
		system, but pertaining geologically to the Laurentian See also:
		The region was once covered, with the exception of the higher summits, by the Laurentian See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /ADA_AIZ/ADIRONDACKS.html (1156 words)

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