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The Hudson Bay
The Hudson Bay
Lowlands
Lowlands
The ocean flooded the lowest
parts and formed a bay. This bay
is called Hudson Bay. It is the
he Canadian Shield is a second largest bay in the world.
Tvast length of ancient rock The pressed area is slowly rising
stretching across much of so the bay is getting shallower.
Canada. Thousands of years A small part of the depressed area
ago, the continental ice sheet was covered with sediments and
was so heavy that it created a glacial till. It did not flood with sea
sunken area on the shield. About water. This forms the Hudson Bay
7,500 years ago, the ice moved Lowland region. The region includes
out. It left behind sediments some islands at the north end of
and a sunken area in the shield. Hudson Bay as well as a stretch of
Low tide creates a
stone desert.
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