Complete roster

The register

Every entry on the site, in the order the sections run. Coordinates are given to the access point rather than the summit, the seam or the quarry face; where an entry is a process rather than a place, the ground it applies to is named instead.

No.	Entry	Section	Located	Process	What it is
01	The Canadian Shield	The Shield	Labrador to the Northwest Territories	Precambrian crust, glacially stripped	Exposed Precambrian rock over roughly half the country, scraped bare by ice and dimpled with the lakes the ice left.
02	Why so many lakes	The Shield	Boreal Shield · Ontario, Manitoba, Québec	Glacial scour, incomplete drainage	Glacial scour leaves closed hollows in hard rock, and there has not been time to fill or drain them.
03	Striations	The Shield	Shield outcrops · Ontario, Québec, NWT	Subglacial abrasion	Scratches gouged by rock frozen into the base of moving ice, all pointing the same way.
04	The Bay of Fundy	The Tides	44.28° N, 66.35° W → 45.30° N, 63.78° W	Tidal resonance	The tide rises and falls by up to about sixteen metres twice a day because the bay's resonant period nearly matches the tide's and the water sloshes like a bath.
05	Burntcoat Head	The Tides	45.30° N, 63.80° W	Resonance at the bay head	Where the largest range is reliably measured, and how a tidal range is measured at all.
06	The tidal bore	The Tides	45.3° N, 63.5° W	Translating hydraulic jump	A wave that runs upstream against the river when the flood tide overtakes it.
07	Resonance	The Tides	45.3° N, 63.9° W	Frequency match, basin and tide	The bay amplifies because its length and depth give it a natural period close to the tide's.
08	Virginia Falls	Canyons	61.6° N, 125.7° W	Antecedent incision	On the South Nahanni, the river drops roughly twice the height of Niagara into a canyon it cut faster than the mountains could rise around it.
09	Antecedent rivers	Canyons	61.0° N, 123.5° W	Incision outpacing uplift	A river older than the mountain range can saw down through it as it rises.
10	Karst	Canyons	Nahanni · Vancouver Island · Rocky foothills	Carbonate dissolution	Soluble rock produces sinkholes, disappearing streams and caves.
11	The Burgess Shale	Fossil Ground	51.4° N, 116.5° W	Mud slide, anoxic burial	Soft-bodied Cambrian animals preserved in mud slides half a billion years ago — the best window that exists onto early animal life.
12	Anomalocaris and Opabinia	Fossil Ground	51.4° N, 116.5° W	Carbon-film preservation	Animals so unlike anything living that their first reconstructions were assembled wrongly, in pieces.
13	Mistaken Point	Fossil Ground	46.6167° N, 53.1667° W	Ash fall over anoxic seafloor	In Newfoundland, an Ediacaran seafloor community preserved in place under volcanic ash, older than the Burgess Shale.
14	Why soft tissue survives	Fossil Ground	51.4° N, 116.5° W · 46.6° N, 53.2° W	Rapid burial, mineral replacement	Rapid burial and oxygen-free mud stop decay before the animal falls apart.
15	Erratics	Ice	Jasper to Montana · Foothills Erratics Train	Glacial transport and deposition	Boulders carried far from their parent rock and dropped where the ice melted.
16	Prairie potholes	Ice	Prairie Pothole Region · MB, SK, AB	Buried ice blocks, collapse	Thousands of shallow depressions left by stranded ice blocks, now wetlands.
17	Isostatic rebound	Ice	Hudson Bay · James Bay lowlands	Mantle recovery under a lost load	The crust is still rising where the ice sheet pressed it down, measurably each year.