GGR202H5 Lecture Notes - Nunavut, Hudson Bay Lowlands, Aboriginal Title
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Staples thesis: the idea that the history of canada, especially its regional, economic, and institutional development, was linked to the discovery, utilization, and export of key resources from canada"s vast frontier. Human activity has a tremendous affect on the environment. Core periphery model those regions that provide good favourable climate have a more people in the area, thus that area become the core of settlement. Access to american and world market from southern ontario thus allows more people to live in gta as it has access to everything with favourable climate. Tectonic activity continental drift/ faulting and folding. *glacial striations: scratches or grooves in the bedrock caused by rocks embedded in the. Bottom of a moving ice sheet or glacier. *isostatic rebound: the uplifting process of the earth"s crust following the removal of an ice sheet that because of its weight, depressed the earth"s crust. Rocks formed more than 3 million years ago. Very young formed 40-80 mil years ago.
