Field Guide to the Churchill Region Manitoba. Miscellaneous Report 53 by Lynda A Dredge ISBN 13: 9780660145655

Ottawa: Geological Survey of Canada [0-660-14565-0] 1992. (4to staplebound) Near fine. 52pp. Maps, photographs, illustrations, diagrams, graphs, references. "This guidebook presents the geological evolution, glacial history, sea level record, periglacial geomorphology and archeology of the Churchill region, and emphasizes some of the problems encountered with permafrost engineering. The first part of the guide presents a summary of the natural environment, explains how the land evolved, and how it is changing now. The second part gives site by site descriptions of specific features along several excursion routes in tundra and peatland environments at Churchill, across the Hudson Bay Lowlands along the Hudson Bay Railway, and into the boreal forest at Gillam" - from the abstract. Book about Archaeology & Sea Levels. Locale: Churchill Region--Manitoba; Churchill--Manitoba; Gillam--Manitoba; Manitoba--Canada. (Manitoba, Field Guides, Geological Survey of Canada, Permafrost).