Georgia Depression

landscape

The [Georgia Depression] landscape features glacially striated tablelands and rolling hills underlain by sedimentary rocks.

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Salish Sea

The Salish Sea sits within the Georgia Depression, a large depression that formed out of the collision of continental plates about 150 million years ago.

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Salish Sea

soils

The majority of soils in the [Georgia] depression are formed from glacial till, glacial outwash, and Lacustrine deposits.

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Georgia Depression (Wikipedia) The Georgia Depression is a depression in the Pacific Northwest region of western North America. The depression includes the lowland regions of southwestern British Columbia and northwestern Washington along the shores of the Salish Sea.

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topography

Much of the current topography was formed through the erosion of the depression by the Cordilleran Ice Sheet during the Vashon Glaciation, which lasted from about 19,000 – 16,000 BP.

Wikipedia

Georgia Depression (Wikipedia) The Georgia Depression is a depression in the Pacific Northwest region of western North America. The depression includes the lowland regions of southwestern British Columbia and northwestern Washington along the shores of the Salish Sea.