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Aux Rochers River
Aux Rochers River (french: Rivière aux Rochers; Rocky River), is a river in Sept-Rivières Regional County Municipality, Côte-Nord, Quebec, Canada. It drains an area of . It is a tributary of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence Description The Aux Rochers River is in Port-Cartier, Sept-Rivières. It empties into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence in the town of Port-Cartier. One of its tributaries, the Gravel River, is sometimes also called the Aux Rochers River. The Gravel flows south to the long Lake Walker. The Aux Rochers River proper leaves the south end of Lake Walker and flows southeast for a further . The river is hard to navigate due to a strong current. It also contains many rocks, hence its name. Some of the smaller rocks move to different places in the river each year. The lower river valley is used by southern section of the Cartier Railway, which then runs along the east shore of Lake Quatre Lieues before following the valley of the MacDonald River, a tributary of the Aux Rochers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Lawrence River
The St. Lawrence River (french: Fleuve Saint-Laurent, ) is a large river in the middle latitudes of North America. Its headwaters begin flowing from Lake Ontario in a (roughly) northeasterly direction, into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, connecting the American Great Lakes to the North Atlantic Ocean, and forming the primary drainage outflow of the Great Lakes Basin. The river traverses the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec, as well as the U.S. state of New York, and demarcates part of the international boundary between Canada and the United States. It also provides the foundation for the commercial St. Lawrence Seaway. Names Originally known by a variety of names by local First Nations, the St. Lawrence became known in French as ''le fleuve Saint-Laurent'' (also spelled ''St-Laurent'') in 1604 by Samuel de Champlain. Opting for the ''grande riviere de sainct Laurens'' and ''fleuve sainct Laurens'' in his writings and on his maps, de Champlain supplanted previous Fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gneiss
Gneiss ( ) is a common and widely distributed type of metamorphic rock. It is formed by high-temperature and high-pressure metamorphic processes acting on formations composed of igneous or sedimentary rocks. Gneiss forms at higher temperatures and pressures than schist. Gneiss nearly always shows a banded texture characterized by alternating darker and lighter colored bands and without a distinct cleavage. Gneisses are common in the ancient crust of continental shields. Some of the oldest rocks on Earth are gneisses, such as the Acasta Gneiss. Description Orthogneiss from the Czech Republic In traditional English and North American usage, a gneiss is a coarse-grained metamorphic rock showing compositional banding (gneissic banding) but poorly developed schistosity and indistinct cleavage. In other words, it is a metamorphic rock composed of mineral grains easily seen with the unaided eye, which form obvious compositional layers, but which has only a weak tendency to fracture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Lake Old Forest
Larry is a masculine given name in English, derived from Lawrence or Laurence. It can be a shortened form of those names. Larry may refer to the following: People Arts and entertainment *Larry D. Alexander, American artist/writer *Larry Boone, American country singer * Larry Collins, American musician, member of the rockabilly sibling duo The Collins Kids *Larry David (born 1947), Emmy-winning American actor, writer, comedian, producer and film director *Larry Emdur, Australian TV host *Larry Feign, American cartoonist working in Hong Kong *Larry Fine, of the Three Stooges *Larry Gates, American actor *Larry Gatlin, American country singer *Larry Gelbart (1928–2009), American screenwriter, playwright, director and author *Larry Graham, founder of American funk band Graham Central Station *Larry Hagman, American actor, best known for the TV series ''I Dream of Jeannie'' and ''Dallas'' *Larry Henley (1937–2014), American singer and songwriter, member of The Newbeats *Larry Hov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pano Port-Cartier
Pano may refer to: Pano ancient empory somaly Culture and language * Páno, one of the family of Panoan languages, within the wider group of Pano-Tacanan languages spoken in South America * Pano people or Tsimané people, Bolivia * Paño, a form of prison artwork from Chicano people in the United States * Pano (caste), a Dalit scheduled caste * Pano, a 2021 song by Zack Tabudlo People ;Given name * Pano Angelov Apostolov, known also as Karabadzhakov, Bulgarian revolutionary, a worker of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization * Pano Capéronis (born 1947), Swiss freestyle swimmer ;Surname *Alexa Pano (born 2004), American amateur golfer. *Antoine Pano (born 1952), Lebanese politician and retired general in the Lebanese Armed Forces *Ledio Pano (born 1968), Albanian footballer *Panajot Pano, Albanian footballer ;Fictional characters * Pano Rodokin, a fictional character from the ''MÄR'' manga series Other uses * Pano Aqil, a taluka (administrative divis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Walker National Park
Lake Walker National Park (french: Parc national du Lac Walker) is a proposed national park in the province of Quebec, Canada, centered on the long Lake Walker. Location The proposed park is in a region of taiga in the center of the Port-Cartier–Sept-Îles Wildlife Reserve. It is about from the town of Port-Cartier. It would cover an area of in the Côte-Nord administrative region. Environment The region has high hills cut by deep glacial valleys running between rocky escarpments. There are many streams and lakes of all sizes in the territory, including the Schmon, Gravel, Pasteur and MacDonald rivers, which meander through wide glacial valleys. Lake Walker is long and resembles a fjord. In places the cliffs along the lakeside are over high, and in places it is deep, making it the deepest lake in Quebec. Other attractions of the park would be the Lake Larry Old Growth Forest and the MacDonald and Cody Falls. Process The Sept-Rivières Regional County Municipality ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Pasteur
Lake Pasteur (french: Lac Pasteur) is a long and narrow fjord-like lake in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec, Canada. Location Lake Pasteur is long and less than wide, with an area of . Its surface elevation is above sea level. The lake is extremely elongated, as are Lake Walker and Lake Quatre Lieues in the same watershed. The Pasteur River enters the north end of the lake, and leaves the south end to join the Aux Rochers River. Lake Pasteur is in the unorganized territory of Lac-Walker, in the Sept-Rivières Regional County Municipality. The lake is about north of Shelter Bay, now Port-Cartier, on the shore of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. Its name is mentioned in the ''Dictionnaire des rivières et des lacs de la province de Québec'' (Dictionary of Rivers and Lakes of the Province of Quebec) in 1925. It was named after the French chemist and biologist Louis Pasteur (1822–1895), who discovered microbial life and invented pasteurization. Environment The lake is in the pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pasteur River (Quebec)
The Pasteur River (french: Rivière Pasteur) is a river in Quebec, Canada, to the north of the lower Saint Lawrence River. It is a tributary of the Aux Rochers River in the Lac-Walker territory of Côte-Nord. For most of its length it flows through the proposed Lake Walker National Park. The lower section of the river includes the long Lake Pasteur. Location The Pasteur River is in Lac-Walker, Sept-Rivières in Côte-Nord, Quebec. The name was made official on 5 December 1968. The large canton of Abbadie, part of the Sept-Rivières Regional County Municipality, was proclaimed on 5 June 1965 but as of 2018 was uninhabited. The Pasteur River flows through the east of the canton, where it collects the waters of lakes Gagné, Chassé and Mouscoutchou via the Mouscoutchou River. Lake Asquiche in the east of the canton, which is surrounded by several smaller waterbodies, feeds the Pasteur River via the Asquiche River. Basin The Pasteur is one of the main tributaries of the Aux Roch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schmon River
The Schmon River (french: Rivière Schmon) is a river in the Côte-Nord region of the province of Quebec, Canada. It flows south into Lake Walker. Location The Schmon River has its source in Lac au Vent and Lac aux Mouches. It flows south for almost to Lake Walker. Its mouth is at an elevation of . For most of its length it flows through the Port-Cartier–Sept-Îles Wildlife Reserve. The lower section meanders through the proposed Lake Walker National Park. The Schmon river flows through land that is mostly covered in coniferous forests. Name The river was called Rivière aux Rochers Nord-Ouest until 1975, when it was renamed in honor of Arthur A. Schmon (1895–1964) of Newark, New Jersey, a leading figure in the paper industry. The river flows through Lake Schmon close to its source. Route The Schmon River is one of the main tributaries of Lake Walker. Its watershed covers , and rises over upstream from the lake. Originally the valley was V-shaped, but the glacial to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rivière Aux Rochers 2
Rivière, La Rivière, or Les Rivières (French for "river") may refer to: Places Belgium * Rivière, Profondeville, a village Canada * La Rivière, Manitoba, a community * Les Rivières (Quebec City), a borough France * La Rivière, Gironde * Rivière, Indre-et-Loire * La Rivière, Isère * Rivière, Pas-de-Calais * La Rivière, Réunion, home of the SS Rivière Sport football club Other uses * Rivière, a style of necklace or bracelet * "Riviere", a 2006 song by Deftones from ''Saturday Night Wrist'' People with the surname * Anna Riviere (1810-1884) opera singer known by her married name of Anna Bishop * Beatrice Rivière, French applied mathematician * Briton Rivière (1840–1920), British artist * Charles Marie Rivière (1845–?), French botanist abbreviated C.Rivière * Daniel Riviere (1780-1846) artist and father of a family of noted artists and singers * Émile Rivière (1835-1922), French archaeologist * Emmanuel Rivière (born 1990), French fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurentide Ice Sheet
The Laurentide Ice Sheet was a massive sheet of ice that covered millions of square miles, including most of Canada and a large portion of the Northern United States, multiple times during the Quaternary glacial epochs, from 2.58 million years ago to the present. The last advance covered most of northern North America between c. 95,000 and c. 20,000 years before the present day and, among other geomorphological effects, gouged out the five Great Lakes and the hosts of smaller lakes of the Canadian Shield. These lakes extend from the eastern Northwest Territories, through most of northern Canada, and the upper Midwestern United States (Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan) to the Finger Lakes, through Lake Champlain and Lake George areas of New York, across the northern Appalachians into and through all of New England and Nova Scotia. At times, the ice sheet's southern margin included the present-day sites of coastal towns of the Northeastern United States, and cities such as Bos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goldthwait Sea
The Goldthwait Sea was a sea that emerged during the last deglaciation, starting around 13,000 years ago, covering what is now the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and surrounding areas. At that time, the land had been depressed under the weight of the Laurentide Ice Sheet, which was up to thick. Areas on the Anticosti Island and low-lying regions of Quebec and the Maritimes bordering the Saint Lawrence were below sea level. As the land rebounded over the next 3,000 years, despite rising sea levels the sea retreated to roughly the present boundaries of the Gulf. Name The term "Goldthwait Sea" was proposed by Elson in 1969 to distinguish the area from the Champlain Sea and the Laflamme Sea. The sea is named after the geologist James Walter Goldthwait (1880–1947). He did impressive work for the Geological Survey of Canada in the east of the country, and in Quebec in particular, despite handicaps such as lack of aerial photographs or detailed topographical maps. The quality of his observati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
