Geology in Canada

In Union Cemetery, a petrified tree stump marks the grave of a notable mineralogist, mine owner and oilman.

This small archipelago in northern Lake Superior was formed by a massive meteorite impact 450 million years ago.

The largest open-pit gold mine in Canada.

As you overlook the Howe Sound and the town of Squamish, your breath will be taken away by its beauty or the stairs... probably all the stairs.

These little-known sands dunes are a geological anomaly in Saskatchewan's southern prairies.

An outcropping plays host to the largest collection of pre-contact petroglyphs in Saskatchewan.

A sacred Ojibwe site covered in pictographs next to Lake Superior.

These hellish-looking cliffs in the Canadian Arctic have been burning for centuries.

A remote landmark named for a whimsical photograph taken by a 1850s photographer and his crew of graffiti artists.

Among the cliffs of the Elora Gorge is an oft-overlooked piece of celebratory graffiti.

Huge spherical rocks in the middle of the prairie.

No one knows the origins of the mysterious stone ruins discovered on a hillside in Halifax.

The world's largest and most outstanding marl lake regularly changes color.

This water-locked cliff face is covered in hundreds of ancient pictographs.

This tiny square mile of Canadian sand was once considered the world's smallest desert.

This massive, ancient stone was disassembled and then put back together again.