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Geoscape Québec
| A billion years of history... |
Founded atop cap Diamant, Québec surveys the St. Lawrence River and offers an incomparable panorama, where past and present meet. The first city established in the New World, Québec is a World Heritage Site where visitors can wander through historic districts dating back to the birth of the colony, or explore further afield and marvel at the magnificent natural settings in the immediate vicinity of the city. Located at the junction of three major geological provinces, the Québec region is the product of a tumultuous billion-year history. Some of the most beautiful features of the region remain as a legacy of this history, which has also produced an environment that can be subject to the whims of nature.
| An Extraordinary Geological Heritage |
Tourist attractions that bear witness to a spectacular geological past: the dissappearance of oceans, the formation of mountains, the passage of glaciers … Read more …
The St. Lawrence River is one of the largest navigable rivers in the world. It flows through a rocky valley partially filled with the deposits of an ancient postglacial sea. Read more …
The cliffs and stairs of Quebec connect two distinct geological provinces and straddle one of the most important faults in eastern North America: The Logan Fault. Read more …
| Rocks are part of our History |
Each of the major geological domains of the Quebec region is a rich source of buidling stones and, ever since the French regime in the seventeenth century, builders have made extensive use of all of them. Read more …
| The Earth Quakes under Quebec |
Many of the earthquakes that have been felt in Quebec were centered in the region, but it is the more powerful events that have occurred in the Charlevoix and Saguenay areas that are responsible for the city's classification as a moderate earthquake risk zone. Read more …
Because of their geological heritage, certain locations in the Quebec region are more prone to the vagaries of Monther Nature. Read more …
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