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Landscapes of the Assiniboine River Watershed

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Landscapes and Landforms of Western Canada

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The Assiniboine River watershed, 162,000 km2 in area, contains five classic Prairie landscapes, namely (a) till plains characterized by hummocky terrain deposited by stagnating ice sheets, (b) closed depressions containing small lakes and sloughs of the Prairie Pothole region, (c) glacial spillways, (d) the flat floors of former ice-dammed glacial lakes, and (e) inactive sand dunefields. In addition, the watershed contains a large glacial delta and has undergone several extraordinary changes to its river network.

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The author is most grateful to Weldon Hiebert, cartographer at the University of Winnipeg, for his preparation and formatting of the figures and to Jim Teller for his constructive comments which improved the manuscript.

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Rannie, W.F. (2017). Landscapes of the Assiniboine River Watershed. In: Slaymaker, O. (eds) Landscapes and Landforms of Western Canada . World Geomorphological Landscapes. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44595-3_9

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