| Title | Québec ville fortifiée : patrimoine géologique et historique - guide d'excursion |
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| Licence | Please note the adoption of the Open Government Licence - Canada
supersedes any previous licences. |
| Author | Castonguay, S |
| Source | Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 8184, 2017, 37 pages, https://doi.org/10.4095/299805 (Open Access) |
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| Year | 2017 |
| Publisher | Natural Resources Canada |
| Document | open file |
| Lang. | French |
| Media | on-line; digital |
| Related | This publication is a translation of Castonguay, S; (2017).
Québec, fortified city: geological and historical heritage - fieldtrip guidebook, Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 8280 |
| File format | pdf |
| Province | Quebec |
| NTS | 21L/14 |
| Area | Québec |
| Lat/Long WENS | -71.5000 -71.0000 47.0000 46.7500 |
| Subjects | educational geology; regional geology; economic geology; geological history; history; plate tectonics; plate boundaries; tectonic history; paleogeography; glacial history; glaciation; deglaciation; sea
level changes; earthquakes; physiographic provinces; sandstone, building stone; limestone, building stone; ornamental stone; fossils; bedrock geology; lithology; structural features; mining history; quarries; archaeology; olistostromes; shoreline
changes; landslides; rivers; ice; floods; Canadian Shield; Grenville Province; St. Lawrence Platform; Appalachian Province; Rodinia; Laurentia; Pangea; Sillery Cap-Rouge Sandstone; Pierre noire du Cap; Montmorency Fault; Logan Line; Grenville Front
Granites; Ottawa-Bonnechere Graben; Saguenay Graben; Graben du Saint-Laurent; St. Lawrence Graben; Phanerozoic; Cenozoic; Quaternary; Paleozoic; Precambrian; Proterozoic |
| Illustrations | photographs; location maps; geological sketch maps; drawings; tables; schematic representations; block diagrams; geochronological charts |
| Program | GSC Quebec Division, Director's Office |
| Released | 2017 02 27 |
| Summary | (Plain Language Summary, not published)
Quebec City is located at the junction of three geological provinces, bestowing upon it a geological panorama without compare and which includes a
historical district that dates back to the first days of the colony. Since 2004, Natural Resources Canada has been organizing, in collaboration with Parks Canada, an urban tour through the streets of Old Quebec, combining geology and history with a
multidisciplinary perspective. Quebec City's geological history goes back more than a billion years and can be explained by plate tectonics. According to this theory, Earth's crust is divided into plates that slowly move against one another. With the
selected stops, fieldtrip participants will discover clues to a long-disappeared ocean, the movement of massive rock masses over long distances, up to the very threshold of the city, and the passage of immense glaciers that covered the re-gion for
thousands of years. We live on a dynamic planet and various elements remind us of this on a periodic basis. We will also see how earthquakes and scree are the result of the region's geological heritage. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 299805 |
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