Famous Shields Landforms
Almost continually mountains and rolling hills.
Famous shields landforms. In addition bodies of water such as oceans and lakes and water related landscapes such as bays and peninsulas are also landforms. A shield is the base of an ancient mountain region. List of shields the canadian shield forms the nucleus of north america and extends from lake superior on the south to the arctic islands. For example continents valleys canyons sand dunes and mountains all qualify as landforms.
The amazonian brazilian shield on the. Popular among hikers vermillion cliffs is a treasure trove of deep canyons and steep cliffs. It is also home to the wave pictured which is made up of undulating sandstone. The atlantic shield the amazonian brazilian shield on the eastern bulge portion of south america.
Also terraced hills and. Canadian shield one of the world s largest geologic continental shields centered on hudson bay and extending for 8 million square km 3 million square miles over eastern central and northwestern canada from the great lakes to the canadian arctic and into greenland with small extensions into the northern u s. The mountains have been worn away leaving a rocky rugged landform.