Landforms of British Columbia: A Physiographic Outline |
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B.C. Dept bedrock Boundary Ranges British Columbia Canada Cassiar Mountains cirque glaciers Coast Mountains Coastal Trough Columbia Mountains Creek Cretaceous Dease deposited dissected east eastern eastward eroded extends fault feet elevation flanked flows Following 97 foothills Fraser Plateau Fraser River Geol Geology glacial granitic ice-sheet Interior Plateau Kawdy Plateau Kechika Kitimat Ranges Kootenay Lake landforms late Tertiary erosion lava Liard Plain Liard River lineament Looking Lowland Map-area Monashee Mountains Moun Mount Nass Basin Nass River Nechako Plateau northeast northern northward northwesterly northwestward Okanagan Omineca Pacific Ranges Peace River Photo B.C. Photographs physiographic Plate Pleistocene Province Queen Charlotte Islands Quesnel relief ridges River valley Rocky Mountain Trench sea-level sedimentary rocks Selkirk Shuswap side Skeena Mountains slopes southeastward southern southward Stikine Plateau Stikine River streams structural summits Surv Taku Tertiary erosion surface Teslin topographic trending tributaries underlain upland surface uplift Vancouver Island western westward Yukon