A report on Alberta
One of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.
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Scollard Formation
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The Scollard Formation is an Upper Cretaceous to lower Palaeocene stratigraphic unit of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin in southwestern Alberta.
Milk River Formation
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The Milk River Formation is a sandstone-dominated stratigraphic unit of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin in southern Alberta, Canada.
Canadian Rockies
10 linksCanadian segment of the North American Rocky Mountains.
Canadian segment of the North American Rocky Mountains.
The Canadian Rockies, being the northern segment of this chain, is thus defined as comprising the central-eastern section of the North American Cordillera, between the Prairies of Alberta and the Liard Plain of northeastern British Columbia to the east and the Interior Mountains/Plateau and Columbia Mountains to the west.
Alberta's Rockies
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Alberta's Rockies comprise the Canadian Rocky Mountains in Alberta, Canada.
Treaty 8
3 linksMost comprehensive of the one of eleven Numbered Treaties.
Most comprehensive of the one of eleven Numbered Treaties.
Treaty territory, which includes thirty-nine First Nation communities in northern Alberta, northwestern Saskatchewan, northeastern British Columbia, and the southwest portion of the Northwest Territories, making it the largest of the numbered treaty in terms of area.
2016 Fort McMurray wildfire
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On May 1, 2016, a wildfire began southwest of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada.
Beringia
2 linksDefined today as the land and maritime area bounded on the west by the Lena River in Russia; on the east by the Mackenzie River in Canada; on the north by 72 degrees north latitude in the Chukchi Sea; and on the south by the tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula.
Defined today as the land and maritime area bounded on the west by the Lena River in Russia; on the east by the Mackenzie River in Canada; on the north by 72 degrees north latitude in the Chukchi Sea; and on the south by the tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula.
At certain times in prehistory, it formed a land bridge that was up to 1000 km wide at its greatest extent and which covered an area as large as British Columbia and Alberta together, totaling approximately 1600000 km2.
Louisiana Purchase
5 linksThe acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from the French First Republic in 1803.
The acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from the French First Republic in 1803.
The purchase included land from fifteen present U.S. states and two Canadian provinces, including the entirety of Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska; large portions of North Dakota and South Dakota; the area of Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado east of the Continental Divide; the portion of Minnesota west of the Mississippi River; the northeastern section of New Mexico; northern portions of Texas; New Orleans and the portions of the present state of Louisiana west of the Mississippi River; and small portions of land within Alberta and Saskatchewan.
Bearpaw Formation
2 linksGeologic formation of Late Cretaceous age.
Geologic formation of Late Cretaceous age.
It outcrops in the U.S. state of Montana, as well as the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan, and was named for the Bear Paw Mountains in Montana.