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Major Relief Features (Landforms) of Continental Areas
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The brown area shows the part of the North American continent that has been stable for over 600 million years. This region is made up of a basement older Precambrian metamorphic and igneous rock that is mostly covered by a relatively thin cover of younger sedimentary rock. Geologists call these long-stable continental cores cratons.
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The Canadian or Laurentian Shield (Craton)
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Stable Platform area
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Old Fold Mountains
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Atlantic Coastal Plain
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Atlantic Continental Shelf
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Atlantic Continental Slope
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Young Fold Mountains:
Cordillera:
Accretionary Belt:
And Volcanoes
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Nearby ocean feature - Deep Sea Trench
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Batholith igneous rock cores to mountain ranges
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Volcanoes: Mount Rainier in the Cascade Range