Kazan Region

{{short description|Physiographic province in central Canada}} {{distinguish|text=Kazan, Tatarstan}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2025}} The '''Kazan Region''' is a physiographic province of Canada and the part of the Canadian Shield that is located in extreme northeastern Alberta, northern Manitoba, and Saskatchewan, and also in parts of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.<ref name="Atlas">{{Cite web|title=Shield / Kazan Region |work=The Atlas of Canada: Shield Physiographic Regions |url=http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/environment/land/kazan_region.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071210040412/http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/environment/land/kazan_region.html |archive-date=10 December 2007 |url-status=dead}}; see also {{Cite web|title=GeoScan: Shield Physiographic Regions / Régions physiographiques du Bouclier; Atlas of Canada. Atlas of Canada Reference Outline Map Series 6423, (ed. 6), 2010, 2 sheets | date=7 December 2015 |url=https://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/starweb/geoscan/servlet.starweb?path=geoscan/downloade.web&search1=R=301249}}</ref>

==Geography== The Kazan Region is subdivided into the following subregions: the Coronation Hills, the Bathurst Hills and the East Arm Hills; the Boothia Plateau; the Wager Plateau; the Kazan Upland; the Bear-Slave Upland; the Athabasca Plain, the Thelon Plain; and the Back Lowland.<ref name="Atlas" />

==Geology== The base rocks in the Kazan Region are Precambrian crystalline rocks such as gneisses, quartzites and granites. In the eastern part of the Kazan Region these are the predominant rocks. In the western portion the Precambrian rocks are overlain by Paleozoic and Cretaceous sediments, many of which have been metamorphosed.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Pojar |first=Jim |year=1996 |title=Environment and biogeography of the western boreal forest |journal=The Forestry Chronicle |volume=72 |issue=1 |pages=51–58 |doi=10.5558/tfc72051-1 |url=http://pubs.cif-ifc.org/doi/pdf/10.5558/tfc72051-1|doi-access=free }}</ref> In both east and west these rocks are in turn overlain in places by alluvial and lacustrian deposits, as well as glacial deposits.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Schreiner |first=B. T. |year=1987 |title=The Quaternary between Hudson Bay and the Rocky Mountains |series= XIIth INQUA Congress field excursion guidebooks |publisher=National Research Council of Canada |isbn=978-0-660-12483-4}}</ref>

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